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KellyGirls Letterbox LbNA #67855

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Nov 8, 2014
Location: Hartwood Acres Park
City:Hampton Township
County:Allegheny
State:Pennsylvania
Boxes:1
Planted by:KellyGirls
Found by: The Whimsical Warbler
Last found:Jun 14, 2015
Status:FFFa
Last edited:Nov 8, 2014
This is our first try at this, and we aren't very outdoors savvy, so it might be a good try for someone just starting out to find the letterboxes. As you enter Hartwood Acres Park located in Hampton and Indiana Townships in Allegheny County near Pittsburgh, PA, you will want to find the mansion and park somewhere near it. If you park by Middle Road, it is a very nice walk of a mile or so to get to the mansion, so don't worry if you aren't close. Please see the link:
http://www.alleghenycounty.us/parks/hwfac.aspx

If you are in front of the mansion, please take the paved and cobblestone pathway on the right around to the back of the building. Follow it away from the mansion, past the storage sheds that look like circus tents. As you get closer to the storage sheds, the path curves so they will be behind you and the woods in front of you. Pass the first entrance to the woods where the red blazed trail begins. Enter the woods at the next entrance. There is a small sign for Trail #8. This entrance is before you get to the paved parking lot. So, enter the woods at Trail #8 between the red blazed trail and the paved parking lot.

Once on Trail #8, you will quickly come to a fork where the red blazed trail goes left, but you will stay straight on Trail #8. There will be a sign on the left for #8 that you will pass. You will then come upon a small, abandoned, underground concrete storage building on the right. Go to the front of this building to find the steps going down into it, but don't go down in there. Stand at the top of the stairs just in front of them and turn around to face away from them and the building, looking down the hill. Get out your compass and turn to face East. Walk 30 paces until you come to a large tree covered in green moss laying on the ground. The letterbox is hidden on the side of the tree closest to you just under it a bit. The letterbox is covered with leaves and should be very close to due East 30 paces from the stairs. Good luck and have fun!