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Waterfalls twenty-seven LbNA #58078

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:May 30, 2011
Location:
City:Shelton
County:Fairfield
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Planted by:Skip & TJ
Found by: Team Rogue
Last found:Nov 20, 2021
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:May 30, 2011
Skip and Rubaduc have been given permission to continue the Waterfalls Series, after its creator retired. Speaking of retired,...if you are following the series, know that Waterfalls Letterboxes #1,#2,#3,#5, Personal Traveller and #15 have all been retired. (Maybe to be revived again, one day.) And also know that because Trailhead Tessie is such an excellent carver, people have begun to take her stamps to collect or to trade. This has forced Tessie to retire some of her most beautiful and educational stamps. I request that you leave her stamps for others to enjoy, as she intends. And, because the Waterfalls Twenty-seven letterbox shares the same location as Tessie's Housatonic River Forest Series and Shelton-in-the-News Series, I recommend that you plan to look for her stamps while you are looking for mine (before she has to retire these, too!).

DIRECTIONS:

The Waterfalls Twenty-seven Letterbox is located on Birchbank Road in Birchbank Mt.Park, which is continuous with Indian Well State Park, off of RT 110 in Shelton, CT. Enter Indian Well Park and continue straight past the first parking area on the right, over the stone bridge and past the second parking area. The road is paved, but continues to wind as it follows the railroad tracks on the right. You will pass the Paugussett TrailHead (blue-blazed) on the left. When you come to a railroad crossing sign on the right, turn into the small parking turn-off on the left before you cross the tracks. The trailhead is blocked and you will see a small Shelton Open Space sign.

CLUES:

You will be following the White-blazed trail, which used to be the main road that followed the river to a seaport where farmers from the White Hills sent their produce to be transported down river and out into the Sound. You will come to a branch in the trail where the blazes give you an option to climb left up the hill. Do not go up the hill; stay straight ahead. you will cross several small but cheerful brooks. Then you will come to another brook and be tempted by an unmarked left trail. Do not follow this trail, but cross the brook to get your first great impression of the Birchbank Chute Falls. Follow this white-blazed trail up the right side of the falls until you come to the second white-blazed tree. Now look to your right , and see a stone wall. (Trailhead Tessie and I have the same eye for locating letterboxes.) Go to the wall, and on top, about midway between the trees at either end, you will find the Waterfalls Twenty-seven Letterbox under a flat stone. Please conceal the box completely after you have stamped in.