Summer Memories LbNA #7575 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Fish or Man  |
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| Plant date: | Mar 20, 2004 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Killingworth |
| County: | Middlesex |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Hez, Grumpy and Mona |
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| Last found: | Feb 2, 2008 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFr |
| Last edited: | Mar 20, 2004 |
This letterbox is on a 1 hour round trip in Chatfield Hollow State park. Bring other clues. There are other boxes on the way. If you are recourcefull there is a shortcut.
Park you car at the Lookout trail parking lot. In the back of the lot you will notice a trail/dirt road. Take it. After about a mile of a gradual uphill you will come to a intersection with another dirt road like the one you're on now. Take this new road for a while and then notice a pond on your left. This Pond was created in the 1930's by the Civilian Conservation Corps. These people are also the people who created the chimeny that is part of another search and the dam that makes the swimming pond in the park. After this pond your trail will intersect with the blue trail. Take a right that goes through a very muddy patch. If you want you can take the dry route on the right side of the path. Follow this path on an uphill until you come to a small ledge.From this ledge you can see a the huge marsh youve been following for a while. You might want to eat a snack here because the next part of the hike is a steep uphill.Once you've gotten to the top of the hill and the trail has leveled off for a bit you will notice an unmarked trail on your left at a bearing of almost north. Take this path for a gradual downhill for about 100 feet when you might notice that the trail gets steeper. Stop before you go down this steeper part. Now take a bearing of 242 magnetic. Now take 15 paces in this direction and it will be right at your feet.Sign in and return the box. You dont have to be too carefull about hiding it because this is on my trail not a Chatfield Hollow trail.
After this DO NOT CONTINUE ON THIS TRAIL. It leaves state land and goes onto private property. My parents own half of it. But a family of people who strictly want no treaspassers also owns the trail. (it marks the boundry between the 2 lots. Go back the way you came but luckily it will be all downhill this time.
Park you car at the Lookout trail parking lot. In the back of the lot you will notice a trail/dirt road. Take it. After about a mile of a gradual uphill you will come to a intersection with another dirt road like the one you're on now. Take this new road for a while and then notice a pond on your left. This Pond was created in the 1930's by the Civilian Conservation Corps. These people are also the people who created the chimeny that is part of another search and the dam that makes the swimming pond in the park. After this pond your trail will intersect with the blue trail. Take a right that goes through a very muddy patch. If you want you can take the dry route on the right side of the path. Follow this path on an uphill until you come to a small ledge.From this ledge you can see a the huge marsh youve been following for a while. You might want to eat a snack here because the next part of the hike is a steep uphill.Once you've gotten to the top of the hill and the trail has leveled off for a bit you will notice an unmarked trail on your left at a bearing of almost north. Take this path for a gradual downhill for about 100 feet when you might notice that the trail gets steeper. Stop before you go down this steeper part. Now take a bearing of 242 magnetic. Now take 15 paces in this direction and it will be right at your feet.Sign in and return the box. You dont have to be too carefull about hiding it because this is on my trail not a Chatfield Hollow trail.
After this DO NOT CONTINUE ON THIS TRAIL. It leaves state land and goes onto private property. My parents own half of it. But a family of people who strictly want no treaspassers also owns the trail. (it marks the boundry between the 2 lots. Go back the way you came but luckily it will be all downhill this time.