Reservoir Walk -RETIRED LbNA #7270 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Feb 28, 2004 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Hopkinton |
| County: | Middlesex |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Planted by: | sadie&russ  |
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| Found by: | burning feet (2) |
| Last found: | Aug 21, 2020 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFr |
| Last edited: | Feb 28, 2004 |
Reservoir Walk
Clues:
The official trail name is Reservoir Run but please walk on this rooty trail and enjoy the scenery. This out and back walk should take less than an hour.
From route 135, Main St. take route 85, Cedar St. and continue past Smokey for 0.3 miles to Rafferty Road on the right. Turn there and immediately turn down the road for the cartop boat access area. Pull off and park. The entrance to the Reservoir trail is on the right hand side. When you get to the water turn right and follow the blue blazed trail north and east. There are several forks in the trail. Always stay left, close to the water’s edge.
In about 5 minutes you should cross a gully and/or stream (it was solid ice today – looked like a streambed). At about 20 paces further you should be standing between a leaning white paper birch on the left and a tree in the middle of the trail. Sight 80 degrees to a small path leading eastward between reclining cedar trees. Follow that path for about 12 paces to a mossy oak on the right side. The Black & White Letterbox waits on the south side of the oak under rocks.
Go back to the blue trail and continue. You will soon go up a hill and past a house and the trail will climb and dip a few times.
### August 2005 - You will get to a clearing where there is a clear view of the now Green Boathouse in the distance. This is NOT the spot. Please continue on. You will pass several more houses off to the right and cross another stream bed.
Just after the green boathouse and parking areas across the water come into closer view there will be a spit of land jutting out into the water. The trail then bends to the right and you will see a fallen north/south tree on the right of the trail. Find the Reservoir Walk Letterbox behind this fallen tree under rocks near the root end.
(Behind where a broken off small tree stump is against the fallen tree)
Unfortunately in the summer there is much more foliage and the view is not so clear, but you should be able to notice the spit of land that points across the lake to the boathouse.
This is where we turned back and returned the way we came, enjoying our walk along the reservoir.
****JULY 16, 2005**** After yet another letterboxer has written to say they couldn't find the second letterbox, we are including an excerpt from an email we received just a few days ago, and hope it helps in future searches:
*********** "...last year we gave up too quickly. We found a grassy spot where we could see the boathouse and a spit of land jutting into the water, then the trail curved to the right. But when I got to the actual spot today, I realized that the clues were much more definitive: I could see the boathouse better, the jut into the water was much clearer, and the N-S log was obvious.
Perhaps it would be good to mention that you have to cross another stream bed before you come to the spot..."
******** Thanks to Songbird for this input! **********
Clues:
The official trail name is Reservoir Run but please walk on this rooty trail and enjoy the scenery. This out and back walk should take less than an hour.
From route 135, Main St. take route 85, Cedar St. and continue past Smokey for 0.3 miles to Rafferty Road on the right. Turn there and immediately turn down the road for the cartop boat access area. Pull off and park. The entrance to the Reservoir trail is on the right hand side. When you get to the water turn right and follow the blue blazed trail north and east. There are several forks in the trail. Always stay left, close to the water’s edge.
In about 5 minutes you should cross a gully and/or stream (it was solid ice today – looked like a streambed). At about 20 paces further you should be standing between a leaning white paper birch on the left and a tree in the middle of the trail. Sight 80 degrees to a small path leading eastward between reclining cedar trees. Follow that path for about 12 paces to a mossy oak on the right side. The Black & White Letterbox waits on the south side of the oak under rocks.
Go back to the blue trail and continue. You will soon go up a hill and past a house and the trail will climb and dip a few times.
### August 2005 - You will get to a clearing where there is a clear view of the now Green Boathouse in the distance. This is NOT the spot. Please continue on. You will pass several more houses off to the right and cross another stream bed.
Just after the green boathouse and parking areas across the water come into closer view there will be a spit of land jutting out into the water. The trail then bends to the right and you will see a fallen north/south tree on the right of the trail. Find the Reservoir Walk Letterbox behind this fallen tree under rocks near the root end.
(Behind where a broken off small tree stump is against the fallen tree)
Unfortunately in the summer there is much more foliage and the view is not so clear, but you should be able to notice the spit of land that points across the lake to the boathouse.
This is where we turned back and returned the way we came, enjoying our walk along the reservoir.
****JULY 16, 2005**** After yet another letterboxer has written to say they couldn't find the second letterbox, we are including an excerpt from an email we received just a few days ago, and hope it helps in future searches:
*********** "...last year we gave up too quickly. We found a grassy spot where we could see the boathouse and a spit of land jutting into the water, then the trail curved to the right. But when I got to the actual spot today, I realized that the clues were much more definitive: I could see the boathouse better, the jut into the water was much clearer, and the N-S log was obvious.
Perhaps it would be good to mention that you have to cross another stream bed before you come to the spot..."
******** Thanks to Songbird for this input! **********