2022 Skagit Watershed Letterbox Trail LbNA #76207
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Add Location| Owner: | Skagit Watershed Letterbo  |
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| Plant date: | Jun 30, 2022 |
| Location: | Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve 10441 Bayview Edison Rd. |
| City: | Mount Vernon |
| County: | Skagit |
| State: | Washington |
| Boxes: | 14 |
| Found by: | Not yet found! |
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| Last found: | N/A |
| Last edited: | Jul 27, 2022 |
Step 1. Print your Clue Sheet at our website
skagitcleanwater.org/skagitletterboxtrails
or pick one up at the Padilla Bay Interpretive Center- 10441 Bayview Edison Rd., Mt Vernon, WA 98273 Wednesday-Saturday 10 am to 4 pm
Step 2. Follow the first clue from the Padilla Bay Interpretive Center.
Step 3. Once you find a Letterbox, carefully review the contents, trying not to reveal the secret location. Use the stamp in the Letterbox to record your find in your personal journal and clue sheet. Place your personal stamp in the letterbox logbook or sign in and leave a note. Hide the Letterbox exactly how you found it to help the next explorer find it like you did. Continue to follow the clues to each box until you reach #14.
Letterbox #1 Eelgrass
From the patio outside of the Interpretive Center head toward the Upland Trail. Flag pole on the right, follow the pedestrian walkway, see dumpster on your left. Cross the parking lot, see the gray bench. Walk 24 steps from the gray bench to the Salish Sea Sign. Don't look up, but down and around the post on your right.
Letterbox #2 Birds
From the post with the sign that says "Adopt a Patch" on the Upland Trail, walk 70 steps to the tree with the birdhouse up on the side. Look down to the right in the grass.
Letterbox #3 Orcas
Continue on the trail with the meadow to the right until you come upon a bench where the trail splits. Sit down, take a rest, enjoy the bay view. Now take 15 steps away from the bay to find the trail marker # 2 on your left, look behind it and you will find it!
Letterbox #4
Local Wildlife
Now look right and start your hike. Pass marker #3, see the ferns, do not turn. Continue to proceed till you see the flag on the left where it seems night. The box is nearby!
Letterbox #5
Native Plants
Continue up the hill, keep going straight, don't turn right. You're on the right path if you see a big tree on the right with a "U" shaped branch. Keep going! Now you can relax on the bench by marker #4, then continue on the gravel path. On your right you will see a pile of rocks, keep going to marker #6 to find what you are seeking.
Letterbox #6 Salmon
From marker # 6 continue down the trail past the wetland grass, but don't branch off along the way. See the big trees near the trail on the right, you're almost there. Pass post #7 take a break on the bench under the maple tree. If you dropped something, you will be close to finding it when you lean down to pick it up.
Letterbox #7 Climate
Walk the path to #8 post. From grass to gravel and grass again. Enter the trees and just past a bench look to your right. Just off the main path a short trail you will find. The box will be hidden behind a tree on the ground.
Letterbox #8 Bald Eagles
45 paces down the main trail find the tree to the left that sweeps the ground and has a large branch cut off. Walk a short distance to your left, look down and find the box here.
Letterbox #9
Native Trees
Start at the broken red branches and follow the gravel trail west. Keep following the trail until you see the bench and a post with the # 10 and then you will know you are there.
Letterbox #10 Blue Heron
From box # 9 to the bench, get out of the tall grass and take a left onto the path. Follow the path, keep going, then take another left and look around the trees and stumps. Another 16 steps to the open stump, look inside and you will find it.
Letterbox #11
Edible Plants
From the Blue Heron Box go to the trail and go down hill, find the #12 then go to the fork in the trail. Take a right at the bench or you'll go the wrong way. At the bench take a seat, find the box behind your feet.
Letterbox #12 Crabs
Now go right, over the bridge and just a short ways. On your left you will find a moss covered log. Look behind and it is covered with bark.
Letterbox #13
Marine Life
Continue down the trail, you won't fall if you move like a snail. Go out of the woods and see the bay. If you go right that's the wrong way. To the left you will go with the Bay to the right. After 150 feet (where the sticker bushes end) take a picture of the beautiful site. Then turn around to find the box in the grass, under the Alder Tree branches.
Letterbox #14 Plastics
Along the paved path where the trees and meadows meet, and where the smokestacks can be seen. Continue along the path until trees shade your travel. Stand beneath a wooded shelter with the stone at it's base. Look near for the river stones, walk among them. Behind the largest stone is the treasure you seek.
skagitcleanwater.org/skagitletterboxtrails
or pick one up at the Padilla Bay Interpretive Center- 10441 Bayview Edison Rd., Mt Vernon, WA 98273 Wednesday-Saturday 10 am to 4 pm
Step 2. Follow the first clue from the Padilla Bay Interpretive Center.
Step 3. Once you find a Letterbox, carefully review the contents, trying not to reveal the secret location. Use the stamp in the Letterbox to record your find in your personal journal and clue sheet. Place your personal stamp in the letterbox logbook or sign in and leave a note. Hide the Letterbox exactly how you found it to help the next explorer find it like you did. Continue to follow the clues to each box until you reach #14.
Letterbox #1 Eelgrass
From the patio outside of the Interpretive Center head toward the Upland Trail. Flag pole on the right, follow the pedestrian walkway, see dumpster on your left. Cross the parking lot, see the gray bench. Walk 24 steps from the gray bench to the Salish Sea Sign. Don't look up, but down and around the post on your right.
Letterbox #2 Birds
From the post with the sign that says "Adopt a Patch" on the Upland Trail, walk 70 steps to the tree with the birdhouse up on the side. Look down to the right in the grass.
Letterbox #3 Orcas
Continue on the trail with the meadow to the right until you come upon a bench where the trail splits. Sit down, take a rest, enjoy the bay view. Now take 15 steps away from the bay to find the trail marker # 2 on your left, look behind it and you will find it!
Letterbox #4
Local Wildlife
Now look right and start your hike. Pass marker #3, see the ferns, do not turn. Continue to proceed till you see the flag on the left where it seems night. The box is nearby!
Letterbox #5
Native Plants
Continue up the hill, keep going straight, don't turn right. You're on the right path if you see a big tree on the right with a "U" shaped branch. Keep going! Now you can relax on the bench by marker #4, then continue on the gravel path. On your right you will see a pile of rocks, keep going to marker #6 to find what you are seeking.
Letterbox #6 Salmon
From marker # 6 continue down the trail past the wetland grass, but don't branch off along the way. See the big trees near the trail on the right, you're almost there. Pass post #7 take a break on the bench under the maple tree. If you dropped something, you will be close to finding it when you lean down to pick it up.
Letterbox #7 Climate
Walk the path to #8 post. From grass to gravel and grass again. Enter the trees and just past a bench look to your right. Just off the main path a short trail you will find. The box will be hidden behind a tree on the ground.
Letterbox #8 Bald Eagles
45 paces down the main trail find the tree to the left that sweeps the ground and has a large branch cut off. Walk a short distance to your left, look down and find the box here.
Letterbox #9
Native Trees
Start at the broken red branches and follow the gravel trail west. Keep following the trail until you see the bench and a post with the # 10 and then you will know you are there.
Letterbox #10 Blue Heron
From box # 9 to the bench, get out of the tall grass and take a left onto the path. Follow the path, keep going, then take another left and look around the trees and stumps. Another 16 steps to the open stump, look inside and you will find it.
Letterbox #11
Edible Plants
From the Blue Heron Box go to the trail and go down hill, find the #12 then go to the fork in the trail. Take a right at the bench or you'll go the wrong way. At the bench take a seat, find the box behind your feet.
Letterbox #12 Crabs
Now go right, over the bridge and just a short ways. On your left you will find a moss covered log. Look behind and it is covered with bark.
Letterbox #13
Marine Life
Continue down the trail, you won't fall if you move like a snail. Go out of the woods and see the bay. If you go right that's the wrong way. To the left you will go with the Bay to the right. After 150 feet (where the sticker bushes end) take a picture of the beautiful site. Then turn around to find the box in the grass, under the Alder Tree branches.
Letterbox #14 Plastics
Along the paved path where the trees and meadows meet, and where the smokestacks can be seen. Continue along the path until trees shade your travel. Stand beneath a wooded shelter with the stone at it's base. Look near for the river stones, walk among them. Behind the largest stone is the treasure you seek.