Take A Hike!! LbNA #50103
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Add Location| Owner: | The Mad Doctors  |
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| Plant date: | Aug 27, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Taunton |
| County: | Bristol |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | team coop |
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| Last found: | Oct 10, 2011 |
| Status: | FFFFFaOF |
| Last edited: | Aug 27, 2009 |
Massasoit State Park (Middleboro Ave., East Taunton, MA) is a heavily wooded state park with many hiking/walking trails. A trail map is available at http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/trails/print/Massasoit.pdf
This is a smooth trail, generally well graded, and not too hard for children. There are several downed trees across the path, which would prevent a stroller from passing.
Round trip is approximately 45 minutes.
You will need a compass.
Drive into the main entrance, and park in the parking area.
Take a look at the recycling display, located between Middleboro Avenue and the small ranger contact station. Once you have looked at the display, set a course of 20 degrees, towards a restrictive sign, and walk there. Then change course to 160 degrees.
Take the first trail on the left, and within a few steps pass a blue triangle blaze on the right, on a pine tree. Bear left at a triangle containing two pine trees (this is a very small triangular-shaped island in the path).
When you reach a faint fork follow the trail at 300 degrees, into a pine forest. Continue around a spot where downed trees block the path (follow the path around the blockage to the right). See the remnant of what could have been a historic kiln (although probably not).
Approach the restrictive sign. At the sign, change course to 185 degrees. Take approximately 110 single adult steps.
Obtain further direction from the white-tail deer in the tree. Set a course of 320 degrees. Soon, you will pass a brown steel structure, on the left.
Continue up a hill, then down. At a fork, set your course at 220 degrees. Continue a short distance, and at another fork set a course of 250 degrees, then continue right at 320 degrees. At the next junction, the trail opens to a wider path. Soon, you will catch glimpses of the lake on your left.
Pass one trail joining from the left. Another trail will soon join your path, also from the left (very close to this intersection, on the right, will be a small stand of beech trees. There is also a pine marked with a blue triangle.) . Continue your journey at 220 degrees. When a path joins the trail from the right, continue to the left (there will be a large pine tree on the right, with an old black and blue triangle-shaped trail marker). Continue on your way for approximately 50 adult steps.
As the trail starts down a slight hill, take a few steps to your right, into thin woods along a faint trail, and enjoy a view (partially obscured by trees) of the lake. This is your destination. From this location, at approximately 250 degrees, you can just see the graffiti-covered concrete spillway across the lake.
After you view the lake, return to the main trail, and face the way you traveled to get here. In a few steps, the trail will begin to descend. Once you begin your downhill journey, count approximately 10 adult steps downhill, and look 90 degrees to your left (as a weak landmark, at this point, buried in the dirt in the center of the trail, is a roughly square stone, approximately 12 inches square). There will be a large two-trunked tree, approximately 10 feet off the trail, slightly up hill.
The Take a Hike Letterbox will be in the crook of the tree, covered with dead branches and bark.
Please rehide carefully, as many people use this trail.
Retrace your steps back to your car.
Please email me your thoughts on your search. Thanks.
This is a smooth trail, generally well graded, and not too hard for children. There are several downed trees across the path, which would prevent a stroller from passing.
Round trip is approximately 45 minutes.
You will need a compass.
Drive into the main entrance, and park in the parking area.
Take a look at the recycling display, located between Middleboro Avenue and the small ranger contact station. Once you have looked at the display, set a course of 20 degrees, towards a restrictive sign, and walk there. Then change course to 160 degrees.
Take the first trail on the left, and within a few steps pass a blue triangle blaze on the right, on a pine tree. Bear left at a triangle containing two pine trees (this is a very small triangular-shaped island in the path).
When you reach a faint fork follow the trail at 300 degrees, into a pine forest. Continue around a spot where downed trees block the path (follow the path around the blockage to the right). See the remnant of what could have been a historic kiln (although probably not).
Approach the restrictive sign. At the sign, change course to 185 degrees. Take approximately 110 single adult steps.
Obtain further direction from the white-tail deer in the tree. Set a course of 320 degrees. Soon, you will pass a brown steel structure, on the left.
Continue up a hill, then down. At a fork, set your course at 220 degrees. Continue a short distance, and at another fork set a course of 250 degrees, then continue right at 320 degrees. At the next junction, the trail opens to a wider path. Soon, you will catch glimpses of the lake on your left.
Pass one trail joining from the left. Another trail will soon join your path, also from the left (very close to this intersection, on the right, will be a small stand of beech trees. There is also a pine marked with a blue triangle.) . Continue your journey at 220 degrees. When a path joins the trail from the right, continue to the left (there will be a large pine tree on the right, with an old black and blue triangle-shaped trail marker). Continue on your way for approximately 50 adult steps.
As the trail starts down a slight hill, take a few steps to your right, into thin woods along a faint trail, and enjoy a view (partially obscured by trees) of the lake. This is your destination. From this location, at approximately 250 degrees, you can just see the graffiti-covered concrete spillway across the lake.
After you view the lake, return to the main trail, and face the way you traveled to get here. In a few steps, the trail will begin to descend. Once you begin your downhill journey, count approximately 10 adult steps downhill, and look 90 degrees to your left (as a weak landmark, at this point, buried in the dirt in the center of the trail, is a roughly square stone, approximately 12 inches square). There will be a large two-trunked tree, approximately 10 feet off the trail, slightly up hill.
The Take a Hike Letterbox will be in the crook of the tree, covered with dead branches and bark.
Please rehide carefully, as many people use this trail.
Retrace your steps back to your car.
Please email me your thoughts on your search. Thanks.