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Never Leave Home Without it LbNA #46520

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Apr 11, 2009
Location:
City:Canton
County:Hartford
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Planted by:Rubaduc
Found by: Nairon
Last found:Nov 4, 2023
Status:FFFFFFFFF
Last edited:May 6, 2016
We’re back at the Mary Conklin Preserve in Canton, CT. The entrance to the preserve and parking lot is at 144 Indian Hill Rd. Take Rte. 44 to Indian Hill Rd. The entrance is just north of Spaulding Rd. on your left. Be on the lookout for a large red mailbox.

Park your car and head onto the red dot trail on your right. Continue on red, until it intersects with green dot. This is the Tommy Ryan Trail. Follow green downhill, passing through some Mountain Laurel. Watch carefully for the blazes because they seem to disappear in places.

You’re going to be going gradually downhill. Watch for three spiky root ends of three dead trees on the path. Not much further. Follow the green blazes as the trail turns to the right (ignore any side trails left) and then curves to the left. Watch to your left for a large mossy boulder with a tree with huge roots lounging on top. This boulder is 12 steps before a large two sister V tree on the left of the path with a large green blaze.

The box is snuggled under a rock on the top of the mossy boulder cradled between roots.

Turn around and retrace your steps. The trail is much better blazed on the way back. There’s also a nice brook ahead of you if you keep going, but we couldn’t cross it today in the heavy rain.

This is another fabulous carving by RTRW