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"Moving Day" LbNA #46798

Owner:RO-Z
Plant date:Apr 20, 2009
Location:
City:Acton
County:Middlesex
State:Massachusetts
Boxes:1
Found by: Nairon
Last found:Mar 17, 2024
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Oct 9, 2015
This is placed at Pratt’s Brook Conservation Land. This is a dog friendly place, but I would be weary of small children as it gets to be a very difficult terrain to maneuver. This hike touches upon many of the senses.

To print out a trail map, go to the site http://www.acton-ma.gov/LSCOM/

Park in the lot on Parker Street and enter the trail. Follow over the first bridge and up the trail past a well on your right. This is a red trail you are on and joins a yellow trail at the top of a hill over the first stone wall.
Take a right onto the yellow trail down the hill and over a stone wall. Follow over a bridge and then over a boardwalk. Another stone wall and you will come to a natural stone bridge over a babbling stream. At the fork in the trail, follow the blue. Along the way, there is a pond on the right, notice the beaver evidence. Continue the trail over the small bridge for the seasonal inlet. Go through the next seasonal brook using the stepping stones. As you ascend up the hill, notice the split glacial rock on the right. Your next clue is a rock in the middle of the trail and go over a small stream bed.
The yellow and blue trails merge, where you should follow to the right onto the yellow. You will arrive at the trail head sign where there are condos on your right and a picnic area on your left. Cross the dirt parking lot to the other side and follow the trail outside the perimeter of the picnic area. Arrive at an intersection and listen for the woodpeckers or an owl. Take a right onto the yellow trail and follow past the beechnut trees on both sides of the trail. Next, notice a very large downed hemlock on your right. Follow the trail past this to the trident shaped white pine and stop at the next stone wall. Go off the trail up the hill keeping the stone wall on your left. Towards the crest of this hill, you will come to a break in the wall where a cedar tree with peeling bark stands in the middle. If you stand with this tree behind you facing the trail you just came from, you will see a small sapling approximately 3 paces away on the left of the wall where the box is hidden.

Stamp in, write a note, trade a hitchhiker if you have one, and please replace the box well.

To leave, continue following the trail to the right. For some reason, the first few steps of the boardwalk, you will notice a very drastic change in temperature. Feel how cool it is when you step on. Continue following this trail listening to the rushing water sounds. Go over the next bridge. If it is a windy day, you may hear some of these trees creaking.

Be careful, the trail becomes very tricky at this point where it is very rocky and many roots of trees trying to grow up around them. Also beware of the skunk cabbage as you will probably smell it before you even see any of it. Go over a stonewall and a small bridge, hold your breath as you ascend the hill, as the pond and swamp are really odorous. Look for the cairns as you wander up and in the spring, on your left, there is a small patch of lady slippers that bloom. Keep following this trail along the hill and you will come to a red trail with the back of a white house there. This is the return trail to the parking lot. Hope you enjoyed this box and be sure to do a thorough tick check before you leave!