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Things You Might See On A Walk In The Spring LbNA #46790

Owner:Hez, Grumpy and Mona
Plant date:Apr 3, 2009
Location:
City:Middletown
County:Middlesex
State:Connecticut
Boxes:4
Found by: Nairon (4)
Last found:Mar 2, 2024
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Apr 3, 2009
Make your way to the Daniels-Schwarzkopf Conservation Area on Old Johnson Road which is off of Millbrook Road in Middletown.

This is a dead end; please do not block the driveway.

Hike is about one hour give or take. Please use markers on the stamps. Only one logbook.

From the parking area, follow the wide dirt trail uphill past the wooden gate, following the Middletown Conservation signs.
Continue on the trail, you will pass a sandy hill on your right and a marshy area on your left. Keep heading north and soon you will see brownstone boulders on your left. Look behind them and under the middle rock for box one, Lady Slipper.

Back out on the trail and continue until you come to a Y, stay on the main trail to the right, this will be the beginning of a loop. As you continue down the trail a vernal pool will be on your left and the remains of a stonewall on the right.
As the trail begins to gradually bear left you will see ahead of you (North) a large stonewall off the trail. Bushwhack to it and look between the second and third boulders which lead up to the wall. There is a boulder sitting on top of rocks two and three. Under this is where you will find box two, Trillium. You do not have to remove any stones from the wall; you really don’t even have to go to the wall, just the rocks leading up to it.

Once again you will go back on the trail and continue in the direction you were traveling. You will come to another Y; stay to the left, the other trail will take you to the power lines.
Continue on the left trail until you come to an unmarked, (red?) but well traveled trail on your right. Take that trail past the colorful bottle tree and at the second cedar fence post look in the wall behind the triangular shaped stone for box number three, Crocus. Be careful of the wire still on the fencepost and near the rocks.

Return back to the main trail taking a right onto it from the unmarked trail. You will soon come to the end of the loop trail, you will continue on bearing right and heading back towards your car. You will again pass the sandy hill on the left this time and when you are almost past it you will see down in the woods on your right a large brown rock. Behind and to the left of this rock is box four which contains Iris and the logbook.
If you aren’t certain if you are at the right place, the rock is almost behind a tulip tree that is right next to the trail and has yellow blazes on both sides.

Back out on the trail and back to your car.