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Blue Dot Fun LbNA #44258

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Oct 27, 2008
Location:
City:Guilford
County:New Haven
State:Connecticut
Boxes:2
Planted by:Rubaduc
Found by: Nairon (2)
Last found:Jan 27, 2024
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:May 13, 2016
Two boxes starting on the blue with red dot trail on the west side of route 77.
You need to park at the Braemore Preserve in Guilford, Ct. The Preserve is on route 77 in Guilford and directly across from Bluff Head Farm. If you're coming from the south it's about one mile north of Lake Quonnipaug. Parking for the preserve is on the east side of route 77.

Bring blue dot colored ink.

After parking, walk south on 77 (be careful and always walk facing traffic) for 0.2 of a mile, cross road, enter blazed trail. Cross several boardwalks or bridges, along a mostly flat trail with farms to the right, come to a slight uphill, turn right onto a dirt road with farm buildings on the left and then some new homes on the right. Turn right at a Private Property sign, (comment from recent finder 5-12-16 Lone Pine Trail has been rerouted. Once you turn right at the "Private Property" sign, the trail has been rerouted up above the brook. The original trail still works, but the first bridge has been damaged (found this out the old fashioned way and crossed the brook getting wet). The trail comes to a three way intersection. Left will take you to the Blue/white trail and the Blue Dot Fun boxes) and follow along the edge of the brook until blazes come into view again. Soon you head uphill and come to where a tree had fallen across the trail and has been cut thru to allow for walking. Part of the tree fell on top of two rocks to the right. Look between these rocks for box #1.

Continue going up. Come to some wooden “steps” and continue going up, up. After a lot of up, up, up you come to an area of lots of really nice beech trees which means no initials dug into them. Continue going up, up, up, up eventually coming to a more “open” area. Start watching for an uprooted tree on the right with the roots staring at you. 20 more steps, look left for a leaning tree about 20 feet off trail. Look in the cool root system of this tree for box #2. If you come to a small knoll off to the right, you went too far.

My advice is to turn back the way you came but for more fun and frolic, continue up, up, up, up, up eventually coming to the blue trail. Turn right (as we did) until you reach the intersection with the blue with red dot trail, turn right and stay on this course until you get back to route 77, turn left and there’s your car. This version took us over three hours.