America the Beautiful...Connecticut LbNA #48111
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Add Location| Owner: | Flutterby Flew By  |
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| Plant date: | Jun 14, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Mansfield |
| County: | Tolland |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Einstein |
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| Last found: | Aug 11, 2013 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFaa |
| Last edited: | Jun 14, 2009 |
#7 Connecticut
by Sally O
Horsebarn Hill Road
Mansfield
stamp size ( 4 1/2 x 4 )
Flutterby and I had started to brainstorm in January 2009 about having a gathering. Originally we were shooting for February. With much discussion and creativity the America Boxes gathering and the 50 state boxes series were created. Flutterby did a TREMENDOUS job contacting various carvers from all the states. The boxes started to arrive within the last 2 months .
The challenge was to find trails in Tolland County that were uncharted or had few boxes planted on them. So the term " what was old is new again " was resurrected. Thanks to 4 veteran boxers and their families and friends (who hiked and made trail suggestions) 50 boxes were planted (some replanted) on new and old trails throughout Tolland County throughout the last 2 months on trails that were at least about 1-mile round trip hikes.
Connecticut, aptly, was the last box to be planted in the original Capital of CT Letterboxing.
Drive to Horsebarn Hill Rd in Mansfield CT. Find the small but quaint picnic area in an open field. Here also is the beginning of an old but still active letterbox planted by Leader of the Pack: Peep Study.
Please bring blue ink with you for this image.
This is the UCONN Forest. The trail starts behind the posted trail map but the grass is overgrown and the ground is still wet so go to the left on the mowed section and walk back towards the tree line and you will spot the beginning of the trail on the right. Walk into the woods and soon you will come to a trail on the left. This will be a green trail marked with appropriate blazes. Down hill you go. There will be an old dam ….make your way past the dam. Continue on the trail past a large Beech on the left side of the trail with many initials carved into it .
Soon you will come to a "T" in the trail. If you go left it will lead you to an open field at the top of Horsebarn Hill but you must go right with the green/yellow/white trail. Downhill you go again. Go straight at the "Y"/ (right). You will go through 2 stone walls.. The blazes are scarce here but keep going down hill and you will eventually hear the water from a stream that you must cross. There is a white painted arrow on the tree just before the stream. I crossed to the right of this tree. After crossing you will see another white painted arrow pointing to the left, stay straight and go uphill. You will pass over a faint path crossing the trail just before you start heading uphill. You will know that you are on the right trail when you see a small kettle hole on the left side of the trail.
Walk until you find two stone walls, one of the right side of the trail and one going perpendicular on the left. Stop here …there will be a large two-sister tree on your left. From the right side of this tree take 4 paces to the stone wall and look behind 2 trap doors for the creative Connecticut letterbox by Sally O. Stamp in and head back the way you came …mostly uphill.
Planted by Pine Tree
**Update 10/23/11
Connecticut
The blazes on the trees are confusing. The green blazes are few and far between. AS you make the right turn in the trail to head down the hill the green blazes all but disappear . Here and there you will find white blazes and yellow dots mixed on the trail . The day I checked this box, UCONN was having a 4H horse event in the woods so there were LARGE yellow and white arrows painted on the trees. Remember when you get to the stream and find a safe place to cross go up the hill NOT LEFT with the LARGE yellow arrows.
The trail is faint up the hill. Pass the kettle hole/old foundation on your left.
Head to the stone wall . Find a large 2 sister tree on the left side of the trail with another rock wall behind it . (this rock wall is perpendicular to the other rock wall) From the right side of the 2 sister tree take 4 paces to the stone wall and look behind 2 trap doors for CT. I placed an old oven rack 2 inches away from the left side of the hiding spot. Please head back the way you came. **
by Sally O
Horsebarn Hill Road
Mansfield
stamp size ( 4 1/2 x 4 )
Flutterby and I had started to brainstorm in January 2009 about having a gathering. Originally we were shooting for February. With much discussion and creativity the America Boxes gathering and the 50 state boxes series were created. Flutterby did a TREMENDOUS job contacting various carvers from all the states. The boxes started to arrive within the last 2 months .
The challenge was to find trails in Tolland County that were uncharted or had few boxes planted on them. So the term " what was old is new again " was resurrected. Thanks to 4 veteran boxers and their families and friends (who hiked and made trail suggestions) 50 boxes were planted (some replanted) on new and old trails throughout Tolland County throughout the last 2 months on trails that were at least about 1-mile round trip hikes.
Connecticut, aptly, was the last box to be planted in the original Capital of CT Letterboxing.
Drive to Horsebarn Hill Rd in Mansfield CT. Find the small but quaint picnic area in an open field. Here also is the beginning of an old but still active letterbox planted by Leader of the Pack: Peep Study.
Please bring blue ink with you for this image.
This is the UCONN Forest. The trail starts behind the posted trail map but the grass is overgrown and the ground is still wet so go to the left on the mowed section and walk back towards the tree line and you will spot the beginning of the trail on the right. Walk into the woods and soon you will come to a trail on the left. This will be a green trail marked with appropriate blazes. Down hill you go. There will be an old dam ….make your way past the dam. Continue on the trail past a large Beech on the left side of the trail with many initials carved into it .
Soon you will come to a "T" in the trail. If you go left it will lead you to an open field at the top of Horsebarn Hill but you must go right with the green/yellow/white trail. Downhill you go again. Go straight at the "Y"/ (right). You will go through 2 stone walls.. The blazes are scarce here but keep going down hill and you will eventually hear the water from a stream that you must cross. There is a white painted arrow on the tree just before the stream. I crossed to the right of this tree. After crossing you will see another white painted arrow pointing to the left, stay straight and go uphill. You will pass over a faint path crossing the trail just before you start heading uphill. You will know that you are on the right trail when you see a small kettle hole on the left side of the trail.
Walk until you find two stone walls, one of the right side of the trail and one going perpendicular on the left. Stop here …there will be a large two-sister tree on your left. From the right side of this tree take 4 paces to the stone wall and look behind 2 trap doors for the creative Connecticut letterbox by Sally O. Stamp in and head back the way you came …mostly uphill.
Planted by Pine Tree
**Update 10/23/11
Connecticut
The blazes on the trees are confusing. The green blazes are few and far between. AS you make the right turn in the trail to head down the hill the green blazes all but disappear . Here and there you will find white blazes and yellow dots mixed on the trail . The day I checked this box, UCONN was having a 4H horse event in the woods so there were LARGE yellow and white arrows painted on the trees. Remember when you get to the stream and find a safe place to cross go up the hill NOT LEFT with the LARGE yellow arrows.
The trail is faint up the hill. Pass the kettle hole/old foundation on your left.
Head to the stone wall . Find a large 2 sister tree on the left side of the trail with another rock wall behind it . (this rock wall is perpendicular to the other rock wall) From the right side of the 2 sister tree take 4 paces to the stone wall and look behind 2 trap doors for CT. I placed an old oven rack 2 inches away from the left side of the hiding spot. Please head back the way you came. **