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12 Months in a Year - March LbNA #61015

Owner:TrailMix
Plant date:Mar 8, 2012
Location:
City:Shelton
County:Fairfield
State:Connecticut
Boxes:2
Found by: Team Rogue
Last found:Mar 27, 2022
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Mar 8, 2012
12 Months in a Year – March

This is a series of boxes observing each month of the year. TrailMix and Yankeesfan will do our best to get a box planted each month in a timely fashion. However, if we have another winter like 2010-2011, it will be quite a challenge. Since it is now March 2012, that worry is over! See you on the trails!

Directions:

Take Huntington Street in Shelton to Buddington Road. Turn onto Buddington Rd from whichever direction you are coming from. After passing Judson St., a driveway on your right proudly displays a shamrock painted on a stone. Please drive slowly through this neighborhood. Continue past a sign on your left for Dikovsky’s poultry, eggs. Pass under the power lines. Take a left onto John Dominick Drive, a dead end street. Park at the dead end.

Clues:

Box #1 March

Enter trail, taking blue trail to your right. Walk, and when trail splits, continue to your right on blue. Go up a hill, passing rock ledges. When trail splits again, take blue trail to your left. You will soon come to a stone wall on either side of the trail. Box #1 is in the stone wall to your right, between a 2-sister and a 3-sister tree. Box #1 has ink but no logbook.

Box #2 Shamrock

Continue on blue trail past more rock ledges until you come to a sign which says “Nell’s Rock Parking Lot” with a white marker and arrow pointing to your right. But don’t go the way the arrow points, keep straight on blue and see the stone wall directly ahead on your right. Box # 2 is in the wall near a single birch (?) tree. Box #2 has ink and a logbook.

There was an interesting notice tacked to the tree next to the stone wall:
Notice March 2010
The orange trail is now blue.

This trail will eventually extend north to Indian Well State Park, where it will connect with the existing Paugussett “Blue Dot” trail.

The Paugussett trail was created in the 1930’s as Depression-era CCC work program. It once extended from Stevenson Dam in Monroe, where it connected with other Blue Dot trails, to Roosevelt Forest in Stratford. It was cutoff in Shelton and abandoned south of Indian Well when Aspetuck Village and other housing tracts were built. Since the early 1990s, the Conservation Commission has worked to acquire a corridor of open space through which the trail can be restored.