Covey Trail Letterbox LbNA #39477
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Apr 30, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Westford |
| County: | Chittenden |
| State: | Vermont |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | the pelican  |
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| Found by: | Lord Bear |
| Last found: | Apr 18, 2011 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Apr 30, 2008 |
This trail is quite muddy late March and on into mid-May. Most of the larger puddles have a side path to walk around as you hike the trail.
The Covey trail is one of the many town trails in Westford, Vermont. This box may be the beginning of a "Westford Town Trails Series." The Covey Trail is actually the focal point of a current local controversy in the town. There is a landowner who is seeking to upgrade the first 450 feet of the trail to "driveway grade" in order to develop his land. Those of us who use the trail regularly are hoping this does not happen.
***UPDATE***
The trail, has in fact, been improved with the driveway and with a new home adjacent to the trail, to boot. I have updated the clues to make it easier to find the box with the "improvements" to the trail.
To get to the Covey Trail, you can take Vermont Rte 15 in Essex north to Rte 128 North. Follow Route 128 for about 3 miles until you see Osgood Hill Road on your right. Follow Osgood Hill for about 5 miles to Stoney Ridge Road and go right (it is just past Machia Hill Road). Go up Stony Ridge Road about 1/2 mile to the end. You'll see a white sign that says "Town Trail and Driveway". You can pull in at the beginning of the driveway and park in the turnout on the left.
***NOTE*** Osgood Hill is a fairly long dirt road and can be pretty bumpy during Vermont's mud season (end of March to end of April). If you want to avoid the long drive, you can enter Osgood Hill another 6 miles up Rte 128, than you will only travel the dirt for about a mile and a half. Stony Ridge Road will be on your left.
Head down the driveway, aka trail beginning. When the driveway goes to the right, at a big boulder, take the trail on the left.
As you walk up hill, you will pass by the new house on the right. Keep going.
Next, you'll pass a spot where a small trail heads off to the left. You'll see a "private" and "posted no trespassing" sign on a chain across that trail. Follow the rules and stay to the right.
Just about 40 more steps and you'll pass another trail going off to the right and curving back. Keep going forward.
Notice the dilapidated brick wall on your right.
Keep on the main trail, and notice the stone wall on your right. That wall will end at some trees that were cut through to clear the trail. On the right, just a little bit further, you'll see a tree with a large hollow underneath, about waist high up. The box is hidden on the left inside the hollow of that tree.
Please re-hide the box in such a manner that you cannot see it readily from the trail.
The Covey trail is one of the many town trails in Westford, Vermont. This box may be the beginning of a "Westford Town Trails Series." The Covey Trail is actually the focal point of a current local controversy in the town. There is a landowner who is seeking to upgrade the first 450 feet of the trail to "driveway grade" in order to develop his land. Those of us who use the trail regularly are hoping this does not happen.
***UPDATE***
The trail, has in fact, been improved with the driveway and with a new home adjacent to the trail, to boot. I have updated the clues to make it easier to find the box with the "improvements" to the trail.
To get to the Covey Trail, you can take Vermont Rte 15 in Essex north to Rte 128 North. Follow Route 128 for about 3 miles until you see Osgood Hill Road on your right. Follow Osgood Hill for about 5 miles to Stoney Ridge Road and go right (it is just past Machia Hill Road). Go up Stony Ridge Road about 1/2 mile to the end. You'll see a white sign that says "Town Trail and Driveway". You can pull in at the beginning of the driveway and park in the turnout on the left.
***NOTE*** Osgood Hill is a fairly long dirt road and can be pretty bumpy during Vermont's mud season (end of March to end of April). If you want to avoid the long drive, you can enter Osgood Hill another 6 miles up Rte 128, than you will only travel the dirt for about a mile and a half. Stony Ridge Road will be on your left.
Head down the driveway, aka trail beginning. When the driveway goes to the right, at a big boulder, take the trail on the left.
As you walk up hill, you will pass by the new house on the right. Keep going.
Next, you'll pass a spot where a small trail heads off to the left. You'll see a "private" and "posted no trespassing" sign on a chain across that trail. Follow the rules and stay to the right.
Just about 40 more steps and you'll pass another trail going off to the right and curving back. Keep going forward.
Notice the dilapidated brick wall on your right.
Keep on the main trail, and notice the stone wall on your right. That wall will end at some trees that were cut through to clear the trail. On the right, just a little bit further, you'll see a tree with a large hollow underneath, about waist high up. The box is hidden on the left inside the hollow of that tree.
Please re-hide the box in such a manner that you cannot see it readily from the trail.