Camp Columbia LbNA #51770
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Dec 22, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Morris |
| County: | Litchfield |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Planted by: | Rubaduc  |
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| Found by: | TheRedds |
| Last found: | Jan 11, 2021 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Nov 8, 2015 |
Camp Columbia State Park/ State Forest
Change has been the constant throughout the 100 year history of this piece of countryside. Where once a shared landscape of farmland and woodland dominated, a campus of higher education (Columbia University) overtook them and ruled the property for nine decades. But it too, like the farms and fields before it, lapsed into disuse allowing the woodland to reassert itself and provide us with the landscape we enjoy today.
On route 109 a quarter mile east of the junction with route 209 is a large parking area with the traditional brown state park sign at the entrance. After parking your car, take a look at the map board. You’ll be going in on green and taking the red loop clockwise. We forgot our pedometer but I think it’s over two miles round trip.
From the map take the green trail, cross a stream, go uphill and come to a clearing with a “hiker” sign across the way. Follow the hiker’s directions, passing the “tower” and continuing on green to the red trail with another map. Stay straight (left?) on red and when seeing other “hiker” signs, follow the arrows. Notice all the brush piles making “homes” for small animals. You’ll pass the orange trail on the right and eventually come to one section of a split rail fence in front of you. Go right here and follow a stone wall (with cairns at the far corner). Go uphill and when to go through another stone wall (you will have walked through several on your way here) take 25 steps along the left side to find a tree with a hole. Look for the “crown” in the left corner of the hole. This is the crown found on notebooks, athletic jerseys and classroom ceilings at Columbia University. Bring blue ink.
Continue on red, coming to a right turn, going downhill into what appears to be a swampy area 9this can become quite overgrown in summer) passing the other end of the orange trail on the right, then a blue trail also on the right. After going uphill you eventually come to a red double blazed tree on the right (just before the map at the beginning of the “loop”). With your left shoulder on this tree, face the wall and look for a round rock at the base of the wall. This will be to the right of a medium size tree and left of a flat faced rock. Move only this round rock to find the “tower”. Bring black ink.
Change has been the constant throughout the 100 year history of this piece of countryside. Where once a shared landscape of farmland and woodland dominated, a campus of higher education (Columbia University) overtook them and ruled the property for nine decades. But it too, like the farms and fields before it, lapsed into disuse allowing the woodland to reassert itself and provide us with the landscape we enjoy today.
On route 109 a quarter mile east of the junction with route 209 is a large parking area with the traditional brown state park sign at the entrance. After parking your car, take a look at the map board. You’ll be going in on green and taking the red loop clockwise. We forgot our pedometer but I think it’s over two miles round trip.
From the map take the green trail, cross a stream, go uphill and come to a clearing with a “hiker” sign across the way. Follow the hiker’s directions, passing the “tower” and continuing on green to the red trail with another map. Stay straight (left?) on red and when seeing other “hiker” signs, follow the arrows. Notice all the brush piles making “homes” for small animals. You’ll pass the orange trail on the right and eventually come to one section of a split rail fence in front of you. Go right here and follow a stone wall (with cairns at the far corner). Go uphill and when to go through another stone wall (you will have walked through several on your way here) take 25 steps along the left side to find a tree with a hole. Look for the “crown” in the left corner of the hole. This is the crown found on notebooks, athletic jerseys and classroom ceilings at Columbia University. Bring blue ink.
Continue on red, coming to a right turn, going downhill into what appears to be a swampy area 9this can become quite overgrown in summer) passing the other end of the orange trail on the right, then a blue trail also on the right. After going uphill you eventually come to a red double blazed tree on the right (just before the map at the beginning of the “loop”). With your left shoulder on this tree, face the wall and look for a round rock at the base of the wall. This will be to the right of a medium size tree and left of a flat faced rock. Move only this round rock to find the “tower”. Bring black ink.