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Get Outdoors and Be Creative! - Design LbNA #47750 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jun 6, 2009
Location:
City:Jacobus
County:York
State:Pennsylvania
Boxes:1
Found by: Papaw Bumblebee
Last found:Jul 31, 2009
Status:F
Last edited:Jun 6, 2009
The following letterbox is part of the GO York "Get Outdoors and Be Creative!" program. It will only be available between June 6, 2009 and September 7, 2009. To participate in the program, please pick up your official "Get Outdoors and Be Creative! Sketch Book at any York County library.

In addition, this program uses creativity stations - a wooden marker post with an engraved plate on it - instead of a traditional letterbox. Please make sure to have a crayon with you to carefully rub the picture in your Sketch Book. Further information about the "Get Outdoors and Be Creative!" program may be found at www.goyork.org.

This creativity station is located at Lake Williams, William H. Kain County Park. GO York Kids level of difficulty = 3

1. Access this creativity station from the parking area off of Water Street.
2. Locate the “H2O at Home” information board and use the information on it to fill in the blanks below.
3. As you face the information board and lake, turn right and follow the dirt road to the end of the parking lot. Please watch out for cars and trucks!
4. When you arrive at the end of the parking lot, look for trail # ____ (the middle number in the number of gallons of water used by the average household each day)
5. Begin your walk up this trail – stepping over a fallen tree and continuing uphill
6. At the four-way intersection, turn left and continue along the shaded path. Start counting green trail markers.
7. The trail will cross a drainage area before curving to the left and continuing back uphill.
8. After walking around the “S” curve, you may notice part of the dam that separates Lake Williams from Lake Redman across the water. Continue along the trail.
9. When you reach the ___th (number of gallons of water used per person per day in 1900), you will notice a “knotty” tree on your right. You are almost back at the level of the lake and it may be muddy here.
10. Keep walking as the trail becomes grassy and splits. Stand in front of the trail marker and follow the trail labeled “To #___” (the first number in the percent of water used for lawn watering and swimming pools).
11. You will be walking uphill and the trail may be, at times, somewhat steep. As you follow the trail uphill, you will notice a tree with many trunks on the right side of the trail.
12. The creativity station is across the trail from that tree.
13. To return to the parking lot, either:
a. Retrace all of your steps back to the parking lot.
b. Continue up the hill and follow the grass-covered trail behind the houses. After curving to the left, the trail splits again. Turn right and walk slightly downhill. Stay straight on this trail when you reach the marker sign and continue over the slight rise and back downhill to the parking lot.