Troop 6249 Part 1 LbNA #68875
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jun 27, 2015 |
| Location: | Ackerman's Grove County Park |
| City: | West Bend |
| County: | Washington |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Boxes: | 8 |
| Planted by: | Letterboxing for Scouts  |
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| Found by: | Guinea Pigs (4) |
| Last found: | Mar 31, 2021 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Nov 29, 2015 |
These boxes are how I learned about letterboxing. If it had not been for Girl Scouts, I would still be living in the dark. My troop had a great time picking out their special stamps, going on our own letterbox hunt, putting their own letterboxes together and finding just the right spot to hide them.
***You may need to do a little bit of "bushwacking" if you hunt for these letterboxes in the summer time. We have done our best to avoid posion ivy, and I have made notes where I have found it. Bug spray is a must in the summer!
Turn into the park and take the road all the way down to the lake. Follow the circle drive to the right past the boat trailer parking. Adjacent to the boat trailer lot is a small parking lot. Park here.
Head up the mowed path through the prairie to the woods. At the bench take the trail to the right. Head along the rock wall on your right hand side. When you get to the drainage pipe, take a few steps down off the right side of the trail. Look for the slab of concrete with a square metal piece attached. Here is box 1.
Get back on the trail and continue until you need to make a choice. Make the correct choice, not necessarily the right choice. Just behind the trail marker there is a large, partially-down tree. Check amongst this ruin for box 2.
Continue on the path past the log cut in 2 (the pieces are on both sides of the trail). Walk past 2 trees directly across from each other on the path to a drainage stream (sometimes wet, sometimes dry). Approximately 6 paces past this there is a tree on the right hand side of the trail with a hole in the base. This is a perfect spot for box 3.
Keep walking the way you came past another huge log cut in 2, past another drainage ditch and then another. Head up the hill to a boulder on the left side of the trail. Hidden behind the boulder is box 4.
Once you are back on the trail watch when the trail curves to the left. On your right hand side there is a huge standing dead tree amongst a bunch of rocks and other odd debris. Box 5 is somewhere behind the tree.
Walk approximate 22 paces on the trail past Box 5's tree to yet another large, rotting tree on the left-hand side of the trail. Check carefully for box 6.
Keep hoofing up the trail. You will start to see a clearing and the soccer fields on your right hand side. When you get to the upper parking lot, stay on the trail to the left. If you are letterboxing in the summer months, be careful of the poison ivy on the left side of the trail here.
Heading down the trail, back into the woods keep your eyes peeled for a magic tree about 15 paces off the right side of the trail. How do you know it's magic? The roots are exposed and this is the perfect hiding place for gnomes and letterbox 7.
Back on the trail you will walk past a large rock set off the left side of the trail. Continue to a gigantic oak tree 3 paces off the left side of the trail. Look carefully behind this beautiful tree for your final box of this series.
Keep heading the way you have been on the trail. You may be tempted to stop at Howard's bench. If it is summer, I suggest you skip this. Abundant poison ivy grows here. It's not the best spot for a bench, I know. Wait to take a rest until you get back to your original bench at the start of your hike. There is a beautiful view of Little Cedar Lake to take in.
***You may need to do a little bit of "bushwacking" if you hunt for these letterboxes in the summer time. We have done our best to avoid posion ivy, and I have made notes where I have found it. Bug spray is a must in the summer!
Turn into the park and take the road all the way down to the lake. Follow the circle drive to the right past the boat trailer parking. Adjacent to the boat trailer lot is a small parking lot. Park here.
Head up the mowed path through the prairie to the woods. At the bench take the trail to the right. Head along the rock wall on your right hand side. When you get to the drainage pipe, take a few steps down off the right side of the trail. Look for the slab of concrete with a square metal piece attached. Here is box 1.
Get back on the trail and continue until you need to make a choice. Make the correct choice, not necessarily the right choice. Just behind the trail marker there is a large, partially-down tree. Check amongst this ruin for box 2.
Continue on the path past the log cut in 2 (the pieces are on both sides of the trail). Walk past 2 trees directly across from each other on the path to a drainage stream (sometimes wet, sometimes dry). Approximately 6 paces past this there is a tree on the right hand side of the trail with a hole in the base. This is a perfect spot for box 3.
Keep walking the way you came past another huge log cut in 2, past another drainage ditch and then another. Head up the hill to a boulder on the left side of the trail. Hidden behind the boulder is box 4.
Once you are back on the trail watch when the trail curves to the left. On your right hand side there is a huge standing dead tree amongst a bunch of rocks and other odd debris. Box 5 is somewhere behind the tree.
Walk approximate 22 paces on the trail past Box 5's tree to yet another large, rotting tree on the left-hand side of the trail. Check carefully for box 6.
Keep hoofing up the trail. You will start to see a clearing and the soccer fields on your right hand side. When you get to the upper parking lot, stay on the trail to the left. If you are letterboxing in the summer months, be careful of the poison ivy on the left side of the trail here.
Heading down the trail, back into the woods keep your eyes peeled for a magic tree about 15 paces off the right side of the trail. How do you know it's magic? The roots are exposed and this is the perfect hiding place for gnomes and letterbox 7.
Back on the trail you will walk past a large rock set off the left side of the trail. Continue to a gigantic oak tree 3 paces off the left side of the trail. Look carefully behind this beautiful tree for your final box of this series.
Keep heading the way you have been on the trail. You may be tempted to stop at Howard's bench. If it is summer, I suggest you skip this. Abundant poison ivy grows here. It's not the best spot for a bench, I know. Wait to take a rest until you get back to your original bench at the start of your hike. There is a beautiful view of Little Cedar Lake to take in.