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America the Beautiful ... Alabama LbNA #48105

Owner:Flutterby Flew By
Plant date:Jun 14, 2009
Location:
City:Columbia
County:Tolland
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Found by: Nairon
Last found:Apr 8, 2018
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Jun 14, 2009
#1 Alabama
By Big Ox and the Herd
Utley Preserve
Lake Road
Columbia, CT
Stamp size (2 1/2 x 3)

Make your way to Utley Preserve on Lake Road in Columbia. This is directly across from Erdoni Road. Park along the road.
**Be sure to have waterproof shoes as the trails are quite wet in places.**

Also, pups are allowed here. If mine are any indication, they really enjoy themselves.

You will need black ink for this box.

After parking, follow the yellow trail to the left of the stone wall. You will walk on a wooden boardwalk, a stone walkway and pass through a couple of stone walls. When you turn to the right and go through another stone wall, you will be at another preserve sign.

At this sign, the trail splits. Yellow goes to the left and white goes to the right.

You will be traveling right with white.

Very quickly you will cross over a wonderful stone slab bridge and then start heading uphill.

Cross under some power lines.

Look to your left to see the remains of an old dam and some pretty waterfalls.

Keep walking until you come to another sign (Loop) and the trail splits again.

Again go right with white.

Walk along and come to a left turn. A bit farther on, come to two trees in a row with a left turn marked on each of them.

After making this left, immediately look off to the right to see a rocky/ledgey area.

Walk ~ 30 feet and look in the center of the rocks there, under a rock and by some saplings, to find the amazing Alabama letterbox carved by Big Ox and the Herd.

After stamping in and re-hiding well, continue in the direction you were going.

You will pass the yellow/white trail on your right.

Keep going and you will come to the intersection with the loop trail sign again.

Now just retrace your steps back to your car.

~Planted by Flutterby~