Eagle Point LbNA #4321
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jun 6, 2003 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Brewster |
| County: | Barnstable |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | donna  |
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| Found by: | The Box Hounds |
| Last found: | Mar 8, 2009 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFa |
| Last edited: | Jun 6, 2003 |
Eagle Point Letterbox
Location: State: MA County: Barnstable Town: Brewster
Planted by: Tweety and Mr. Coon
Difficulty: Easy twenty minute walk to the box. Great for kids. Nice views of Upper Mill Pond.
Driving directions:
From the Mid-Cape highway exit onto Rt. 134 turn right onto Airline and then right on Setucket Road. Airline comes up fast, if you miss it turn right directly on Setucket a mile or so later. Bear right when Setucket runs into Stony Brook. After passing the herring run and mill site on Stony Brook Road look for Run Hill Road on the top of the hill. Coming from Rt. 6A, turn onto Stony Brook Road at the flashing light and look for Run Hill Road.
Following Run Hill Road you’ll soon (one or two tenths of a mile) come upon a DPW Disposal area on the left, continue just under a mile to a parking area on your left. There is signage here for the Punkhorn Parklands conservation area. Note that you passed the entrance to one of the trails on your left just before (couple hundred feet) the lot. Another trail leads out of the lot.
Background:
The information we found says that this conservation area is over 800 acres most of which was purchased by the town in the 1980’s. There is a small boat landing and quite a complex of paths and dirt roads that beg for further exploration on our part. We met a local resident at the landing who said the eagles were definitely around although he had personally only seen them once.
Directions to the box:
Walk out of the lot on and continue (SW) a couple of hundred feet farther along the road (this part was still gravel when we were there) to an intersection where the side road to your right goes down to the Mill Pond boat landing. At this corner is the entrance to the trail marked with a Town of Brewster conservation area sign for Eagle Point and a Cape Cod Pathways badge. Head up the trail. You may want to detour for a moment to the right at the top of the small hill for a quick view of the pond or just continue on the main trail to the left. This will go downhill and skirt a marshy area cross a small stream entering the pond and then head uphill to Eagle Point. After you hang around there a bit near the bench to savor the view of the pond (and perhaps to enjoy the insect-dispersing breeze as we did) continue on past the stone with the plaque. The trail will have some branches to the left but keep to the marked route that stays more or less near the pond. Continue down into a small valley (those pesky glaciers) and up the next hill where there is a second bench and westerly overlook off to the right. Stay on the trail or detour to the bench and rejoin the trail. Shortly the trail will start down slope again and about a hundred feet or so after that you’ll come to fork in the trail. Stay to the “right” branch where a nearby tree has the Cape Cod Pathways badge. From that tree count fifteen of my steps (I‘ve come to assume that my stride somehow became the letterboxing standard this since it always seems to work for us with everyone else’s directions) down the path and spy a tree about fifteen feet off the path to your right with a bend in its trunk about three feet above the ground which might serve as a seat. While you rest in this natural chair scootch among the debris behind the base of the tree to find the box. When we were here it looked as though they might be getting ready to do some maintenance on this sloped part of the trail, perhaps installing some stone steps as they had on the approach to the Eagle Point bench. This could confuse the fifteen step measurements, but the tree is pretty obvious anyway.
Location: State: MA County: Barnstable Town: Brewster
Planted by: Tweety and Mr. Coon
Difficulty: Easy twenty minute walk to the box. Great for kids. Nice views of Upper Mill Pond.
Driving directions:
From the Mid-Cape highway exit onto Rt. 134 turn right onto Airline and then right on Setucket Road. Airline comes up fast, if you miss it turn right directly on Setucket a mile or so later. Bear right when Setucket runs into Stony Brook. After passing the herring run and mill site on Stony Brook Road look for Run Hill Road on the top of the hill. Coming from Rt. 6A, turn onto Stony Brook Road at the flashing light and look for Run Hill Road.
Following Run Hill Road you’ll soon (one or two tenths of a mile) come upon a DPW Disposal area on the left, continue just under a mile to a parking area on your left. There is signage here for the Punkhorn Parklands conservation area. Note that you passed the entrance to one of the trails on your left just before (couple hundred feet) the lot. Another trail leads out of the lot.
Background:
The information we found says that this conservation area is over 800 acres most of which was purchased by the town in the 1980’s. There is a small boat landing and quite a complex of paths and dirt roads that beg for further exploration on our part. We met a local resident at the landing who said the eagles were definitely around although he had personally only seen them once.
Directions to the box:
Walk out of the lot on and continue (SW) a couple of hundred feet farther along the road (this part was still gravel when we were there) to an intersection where the side road to your right goes down to the Mill Pond boat landing. At this corner is the entrance to the trail marked with a Town of Brewster conservation area sign for Eagle Point and a Cape Cod Pathways badge. Head up the trail. You may want to detour for a moment to the right at the top of the small hill for a quick view of the pond or just continue on the main trail to the left. This will go downhill and skirt a marshy area cross a small stream entering the pond and then head uphill to Eagle Point. After you hang around there a bit near the bench to savor the view of the pond (and perhaps to enjoy the insect-dispersing breeze as we did) continue on past the stone with the plaque. The trail will have some branches to the left but keep to the marked route that stays more or less near the pond. Continue down into a small valley (those pesky glaciers) and up the next hill where there is a second bench and westerly overlook off to the right. Stay on the trail or detour to the bench and rejoin the trail. Shortly the trail will start down slope again and about a hundred feet or so after that you’ll come to fork in the trail. Stay to the “right” branch where a nearby tree has the Cape Cod Pathways badge. From that tree count fifteen of my steps (I‘ve come to assume that my stride somehow became the letterboxing standard this since it always seems to work for us with everyone else’s directions) down the path and spy a tree about fifteen feet off the path to your right with a bend in its trunk about three feet above the ground which might serve as a seat. While you rest in this natural chair scootch among the debris behind the base of the tree to find the box. When we were here it looked as though they might be getting ready to do some maintenance on this sloped part of the trail, perhaps installing some stone steps as they had on the approach to the Eagle Point bench. This could confuse the fifteen step measurements, but the tree is pretty obvious anyway.