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Miceli Series- The Green Fairy Flies to Panthorn P LbNA #54789

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jul 26, 2010
Location:
City:Plantsville
County:Hartford
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Planted by:Frogger4
Found by: Good Karma
Last found:Aug 23, 2013
Status:FFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Jul 26, 2010
Panthorn Park
Burritt St.
Plantsville, CT 06479

Directions to Panthorn Park :
• From Hartford: Take I-84 West through Southington. Take the Meriden-Waterbury Road Exit (Route 322). At end of ramp, turn right. Go to next light and turn left onto Ruggles Row. Go to the stop sign and turn left onto Burritt Street. Go over the I-84 overpass, continue downhill about ¼ mile and the entrance to Panthorn Park will be on your right-hand side. As you enter the park, our Maintenance Building will be directly in front of you. Continue into the Park and you'll see the picnic area, pond, tennis courts and softball field. Handicap-accessible Playscape will be on your right. If you continue up the road, the Southington Girl's Softball fields along with the Lacrosse Fields are at the top.
• From Waterbury: Take I-84 East and take the Meriden-Waterbury Road Exit (Route 322). At light, go straight across to Ruggles Row. At stop sign, turn left onto Burritt Street. Go over the I-84 overpass, continue downhill about ¼ mile and entrance to Panthorn Park will be on your right-hand side. As you enter the park, our Maintenance Building will be directly in front of you. Continue into the Park and you'll see the picnic area, pond, tennis courts and softball field. Handicap-accessible Playscape will be on your right. If you continue up the road, the Southington Girl's Softball fields along with the Lacrosse Fields are at the top.

The Green Fairy Flies to Panthorn Park

The Green Fairy is flying all across Connecticut to visit her friends.
Today she visited Panthorn Park to visit the Orange Beetle. When you find the Orange Beetle’s house, there will be a letterbox as well as some fairy dust to sprinkle! Good luck!

This hike is relatively easy, some obstacles, lots of wooden bridges. Bring bug spray!

• As you enter the park, park in the lot on the left just after the pond.
• Walk through the grass and cross over the wooden bridge
• After the bridge, take the trail to your right with a small yellow pole.
• Cross over a small wooden bridge.
• Pass Yellow Pole #2
• At fork, take a left toward the picnic tables.
• When you pass the tables, take the trail to the right onto the gravel path, passing Yellow Pole #5.
• Pass Yellow Pole #6, 7, and 8.
• Cross another small wooden bridge.
• Pass Yellow Pole #10 and 12.
• Continue onto a long wooden bridge.
• When you exit the bridge, pass Yellow Pole #14,15, and 16.
• Take the wooden steps to the left just before the next wooden bridge.
• Follow the path up a hill into a meadow, then back down and into the woods.
• At the fork, stay straight, do not take the left path.
• Follow the trail keeping the stream on your right.
• Take another set of wooden steps up and follow them back down keeping straight on the path.
• Follow the path as it curves to the left where the stream forms a series of small waterfalls.
• At the next fork, stay straight, keeping the stream on your right.
• Go over a small 2 plank bridge.
• Go over another small 2 plank bridge.
• Go over a long 2 plank path crossing over a wooden bridge with rails.
• Stop at the end of the railed bridge.
• Take 4 paces continuing on the path (a pace = 2 steps)
• On your right there will be a dead tree stump with leaves and twigs covering an opening on top.
• Look inside the dead tree stump to find what the Green Fairy left!

To return home, turn around and follow the path back. If you continue forward, the path will eventually come to a dead end in all directions.

Please email if there are any problems with the letterbox: jolenemiceli@cox.net