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Waterfalls Thirty-five LbNA #66571

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Mar 4, 2014
Location: Orchard Hill Nature Center
City:Newtown
County:Fairfield
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Planted by:Skip & TJ
Found by: Las Almas Gemelas
Last found:Apr 7, 2019
Status:FFFF
Last edited:Mar 4, 2014
DIRECTIONS
You are on RT25 in Newtown, CT; you are south of the Mona Lisa Restaurant and north of the Black Swan. You are turning onto orchard Hill Road and, IMMEDIATELY at the fork, you are turning onto Huntingtown Road. Down around a curve and over a stone bridge and, on the right, you will see the gravel parking area for Orchard Hill Nature Center. Park here and be prepared to be transported back to the early farming and mill days of Colonial Connecticut.

CLUES
( Scrivener’s “The Binewski Fabulon” Letterboxes will take you on a very enjoyable and detailed exploration of the Nature Center, and eventually bring you to the Falls.)

FOR THOSE SHORT OF TIME AND INTENT ONLY ON THE WATERFALLS BOX:
Start between the two stone pillars and follow the white blazes and trail between the birdboxes. You will pass the “Moss and Fern” trail on the right which is blazed red, and deserving of a visit another day. Continue on the white trail, bearing to the right when it forks. You will pass the red-blazed trail again on your right.
Cross the bridge and take your first right. Stop at the metal bench. With the bench on your left, look to the right to see a boulder and bunch of trees behind it and to the left. Walk between these trees and the boulder and you will descend one level closer to the falls. Descend one more level, and you will have a larger boulder to your right that is regrettably graffitied “Steve.” Turn around to face the ledge behind you, and you will notice a cave at ankle height. Just above the cave, at about left hand height, you will see a crack that is filled with a rounded, white, halfmoon-shaped stone. THE WATERFALLS THIRTY-FIVE LETTERBOX is behind this stone. PLEASE HIDE THE BOX COMPLETELY. ( Make sure that you read the very informative green sign.Take the red blaze trail across the stream and back to the parking area.)