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Balboa Letterbox LbNA #52563 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Mar 20, 2010
Location:
City:San Diego
County:San Diego
State:California
Boxes:1
Planted by:EdAndStacey
Found by: Kujosie
Last found:Dec 1, 2012
Status:FFFFFFFFFFaamaFFaaaa
Last edited:Mar 20, 2010

    STATUS: THIS LETTERBOX IS CURRENTLY MISSING.

  1. Looking at the Organ Pavilion stage from the audience, exit towards your right.

  2. Find the “Spreckel’s Organ Pavilion” sign next to the green drinking fountain.

  3. Cross the street next to your right heading towards the International Cottages.

  4. Walk through the International Cottages area, and exit between the houses of USA and Ukraine.

  5. Walk down the stairs, and cross the street heading towards the Balboa Park Club building, which is to the right of the Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater.

  6. Walk around the Balboa Park Club building.

  7. In the back, you will see picnic tables. Walk down the steps from the picnic tables.

  8. You will see a brick fireplace built in 1944 by Geo. J Morgenstern.

  9. To your right, you will see the Cabrillo Bridge and the Tower of the Museum of Man.

  10. Walk in the opposite direction of the Tower through the garden on your left.

  11. Keep walking in that direction until you find a sign that says “Balboa Park Trails Improvement.”

  12. Walk down the path to the left of the sign.

  13. The path will fork. Don’t take the right fork towards the freeway. Instead, head left towards buildings.

  14. Along the path you will find a Rain Bird in a green cylinder on the ground.

  15. Keep walking down the hill until you find the steps created by Eagle Scout Michael Mason.

  16. Walk down the steps into the grove between three California pepper trees.

  17. There is a wooden bridge.

  18. Before the first 4x4 underneath the bridge, there is a large rock. Behind the rock, you will find the Balboa Letterbox.