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Wincopin Daffodil LbNA #45087

Owner:wood thrush
Plant date:Jan 1, 2009
Location:
City:Savage
County:Howard
State:Maryland
Boxes:1
Found by: Scarabaeus
Last found:May 12, 2018
Status:FFFFFFFFFaFFFFF
Last edited:Sep 29, 2015
This box is in the same neighborhood as our Hogs Neck and Patuxent Confluence letterboxes. The intrepid letterboxer will take note and maybe, spend an afternoon in this delightful park!

Driving directions. From either the Baltimore or Washington, D.C., area, take I-95 to the exit for Route 32 west. Take the first exit for Broken Land Parkway. Stay to the left. At the end of the exit ramp, make a left turn onto Broken Land Parkway, and follow it to its end at a traffic light. Make a left turn at this light onto Guilford Road. Stay to the right, and at the next light, make a right turn onto Murray Hill Road. Follow this road to a left turn at Vollmerhausen Road. You will see a wooden sign for “Huntington.” Travel Vollmerhausen until you cross over I-95 and begin going down a hill. After a short distance, look to your right for the parking lot that leads to the Wincopin trailheads in Savage Park. If you reach the bottom of the hill and begin to climb the other side, you have gone too far and will need to turn around.

To the letterbox. Park in the lot. Notice an informative board with, among other things, a map of the trail system in this part of the park. The Wincopin Daffodil box is found along the blue-blazed trail.

Head into the woods, on a paved red trail that quickly turns into a dirt footpath. Follow the trail past a signpost for a left junction with a green trail. You will soon see another signpost for another left junction; this is the blue trail, so turn left here.

Follow the blue trail for a fairly short distance until you come to a “backwards-Y” junction with the green trail. Do not go to the right (backwards). Instead, continue ahead; you are now on a combined blue-green trail. Walk over hill and dale, noting the Middle Patuxent River to your right at one point, below you and in the near distance.

After a time, keep your eye on the left of the trail for a very distinctive tree pairing.

(Note: if you miss this landmark, you will soon come to the split of the blue and green trails. This is marked by two cairns on the right; the green trail diverges here, while the blue trail continues straight. If you reach this point, you have gone too far and should turn around.)

The tree pairing landmark is just a step or two off the trail, on the left. You will see a decent-sized poplar tree, and growing right up next to it, a younger but still fairly substantial beech tree. The beech’s trunk divides in two about four feet above the ground.

Stand with your back to the poplar on the side opposite from where the beech tree grows. Take 20 steps forward (roughly in an easterly direction) to the Completely Obvious Box Hiding Spot. This spot is guarded by a short, thick beech log. Most likely you will have to pull a whole bunch of leaves out of the Completely Obvious Box Hiding Spot to expose the letterbox.

Also, when you are in the Right Place, you will see a few more steps ahead of you is a fine four-in-one poplar tree (with the fourth trunk being much less thick than the other three).

After stamping in and rehiding, you may want to look for our other boxes in this park. Or, if you are ready to leave, and would like a different view on the way out, simply keep going straight on the blue trail, past the two cairns, and at the next trail intersection beyond them, turn left on the green trail. This will take you back to the red trail, where you will make a right to return to your car.