The Three Nephews LbNA #50298 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Sep 9, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Stoneham |
| County: | Middlesex |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 3 |
| Planted by: | WildFlower  |
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| Found by: | Lundy and Vickster (2) |
| Last found: | Apr 3, 2011 |
| Status: | FF |
| Last edited: | Sep 9, 2009 |
The Three Nephews Letterbox
We've had so much fun finding other folk's letterboxes that we decided to create some of our own. Enjoy!
Take exit 33 from Rt. 93 (Roosevelt Circle, Rt. 28).
If coming from the north reverse direction in the rotary. If coming from Boston, stay to the right. You will need to blend into traffic coming from the right into the rotary. Get out of the rotary at the 28 North/Fellsway West exit.
At the flashing yellow light take a right onto Elm St (sign for Melrose and Flynn Rink). Follow past Wrights Pond on the left to the end at the rotary (gas station), turn left onto Woodland Ave. Go about .5 mile and watch for a fire road on the right. It will come up suddenly, just after the curve and a Hospital sign hidden in the trees. If you come to some buildings on your right you have gone too far. (You can reverse at the rotary.) Park at the fire road entrance. This is Gate 35. You should see a post with three or four signs on it.
Walk down the road. At 30 paces you should see a sign on a tree to the left for "Hemlock Pool Road". Follow the road past a sign saying "Access Route". When you get to the second "Access Route" sign placed between two boulders, do NOT follow the arrow. Instead go straight ahead on the right fork. It looks smaller right at the fork but shortly you will see it is another fire road.
After a while you will see a large flat rock in the middle of the road. Shortly after that two flat boulders standing on side with a large rotten log in between like a hot dog in a roll. Continue down the road and watch on the left for the seatless remains of a bench. They look like a pair of gravestones. Stand between them and look across the road to the right to see a rock outcropping. Look there for your first prize.
To find it walk past 4 baby pines and up onto the outcropping. Before you is a large oak tree growing right out of the rocks. In front of the tree is a split in the rock. Look there for box #1. You are close to the road so be sneaky and hide it carefully when you are done.
Return to the road and look for a large fallen log. If you are in the right place you will see a sign for the "Cross Fells Trail". Right next to the log is a path (not the Cross Fells Trail) that descends into a family of hemlock and oak trees. Follow the path to a pile of rocks. Look to the left and you can see two trees that have fallen in opposite directions. Go and stand between their trunks. You will be facing a big tree. Lean left and look around its side. You'll see four large rocks. The second one to appear hides box #2.
Head back the way you came and you'll see a long fallen log. Look for a tree with two trunks shaped in a V - one trunk is twice the size of the other. Put your back to the big trunk - the tree directly in front of you holds the last box.
While you are in the area, check out the "Turtle Walker at the Fells" letterbox. It's starting point is at the Flynn rink at the rotary.
If you enjoyed your hike in the Middlesex Fells and want to return, you can continue on Woodland Rd and look to the left for Botume House Visitor Center. They carry a good map of the Fells.
We hope you enjoyed our letterboxes. Chris, Paul, Joe, and Auntie.
We've had so much fun finding other folk's letterboxes that we decided to create some of our own. Enjoy!
Take exit 33 from Rt. 93 (Roosevelt Circle, Rt. 28).
If coming from the north reverse direction in the rotary. If coming from Boston, stay to the right. You will need to blend into traffic coming from the right into the rotary. Get out of the rotary at the 28 North/Fellsway West exit.
At the flashing yellow light take a right onto Elm St (sign for Melrose and Flynn Rink). Follow past Wrights Pond on the left to the end at the rotary (gas station), turn left onto Woodland Ave. Go about .5 mile and watch for a fire road on the right. It will come up suddenly, just after the curve and a Hospital sign hidden in the trees. If you come to some buildings on your right you have gone too far. (You can reverse at the rotary.) Park at the fire road entrance. This is Gate 35. You should see a post with three or four signs on it.
Walk down the road. At 30 paces you should see a sign on a tree to the left for "Hemlock Pool Road". Follow the road past a sign saying "Access Route". When you get to the second "Access Route" sign placed between two boulders, do NOT follow the arrow. Instead go straight ahead on the right fork. It looks smaller right at the fork but shortly you will see it is another fire road.
After a while you will see a large flat rock in the middle of the road. Shortly after that two flat boulders standing on side with a large rotten log in between like a hot dog in a roll. Continue down the road and watch on the left for the seatless remains of a bench. They look like a pair of gravestones. Stand between them and look across the road to the right to see a rock outcropping. Look there for your first prize.
To find it walk past 4 baby pines and up onto the outcropping. Before you is a large oak tree growing right out of the rocks. In front of the tree is a split in the rock. Look there for box #1. You are close to the road so be sneaky and hide it carefully when you are done.
Return to the road and look for a large fallen log. If you are in the right place you will see a sign for the "Cross Fells Trail". Right next to the log is a path (not the Cross Fells Trail) that descends into a family of hemlock and oak trees. Follow the path to a pile of rocks. Look to the left and you can see two trees that have fallen in opposite directions. Go and stand between their trunks. You will be facing a big tree. Lean left and look around its side. You'll see four large rocks. The second one to appear hides box #2.
Head back the way you came and you'll see a long fallen log. Look for a tree with two trunks shaped in a V - one trunk is twice the size of the other. Put your back to the big trunk - the tree directly in front of you holds the last box.
While you are in the area, check out the "Turtle Walker at the Fells" letterbox. It's starting point is at the Flynn rink at the rotary.
If you enjoyed your hike in the Middlesex Fells and want to return, you can continue on Woodland Rd and look to the left for Botume House Visitor Center. They carry a good map of the Fells.
We hope you enjoyed our letterboxes. Chris, Paul, Joe, and Auntie.