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Add Location| Owner: | DrewFamily    |
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| Plant date: | Jan 1, 1990 |
| Location: | |
| City: | North Stonington |
| County: | New London |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Connecticut Croaker |
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| Last found: | Apr 20, 2021 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Jan 1, 1990 |
Note: "Wildlife Management Area" is a euphemism for Hunting Zone. These areas are not safe for letterboxing during hunting season from Monday through Saturday. We do not recommend letterboxing here even on Sundays during the hunting season. This is not a multi-use area and hunters are not welcoming of hikers, bikers, birders, or boxers during their season.
CT Hunting Regulations
CT Hunting Season Specifics
Generally, Sept 15th through Jan 31st.
CT Firearms Safety Program
In Memorium, Conservation Officer James Spignesi
On this hill in the final days of colonialism in America, on an all-but-forgotten night, patriots burned a tar barrel to signal the coming of the British. Now Jeremy Hill is the site of the obscure and rarely visited, but still marvelous, Assekonk Wildlife Management Area. This single letterbox is on an easy 2 mile, 90 minute hike, with more off-trail hiking than usual, following an out-and-back course on a pleasant woods road with a teardrop shaped, off-trail loop around a pine grove at the bottom. The Assekonk Swamp is revered by the birding community for its rich wetland habitat. Hunting is also popular here: wear your blaze orange from October to May, or come on a Sunday, the hunter's day of rest. And don't forget your bug spray!
Directions: In North Stonington CT, take exit 92 from I-95 and follow CT Rte. 2 West. At the rotary, turn onto Rte. 184 West and travel 1.8 miles. Turn right into the third driveway after the town-line sign, marked with #825 on the mailbox, pass a beautiful colonial-era farmhouse on the left and then bear right onto a forest road. A hundred yards down the road, park in the small grassy spot on the right just before the refuge's gate.
Walk through the gate and follow the road north, passing another grassy parking area and going through another gate. Follow this graceful old farm road, with walls and stately silver maple on either hand, gently downhill for about a mile to its end at Assekonk Swamp. A few steps farther northeast on a faint track will bring you to a stone wall and the wetlands.
Turn left and follow the wall on a faint track generally northwest to a shady stand of evergreen on the left. We'll make a counter-clockwise loop around the perimeter of this one-acre pine grove: continuing northwest, skirt between the forest on the left and the swampy wall on the right. A short bit along, watch for old barbed wire, pass through, and turn left to head south-southwest uphill on a faint trail in the trees, paralleling a different stone wall 50 feet off to the right. At the top, another wall intersects the way: turn right and follow the path of least resistance west-southwest to a three-way wall intersection. The Tar Barrel Hill Letterbox is in the western end of that intersecting wall, just behind a big twin oak. Please re-hide it well: hunters are not likely to appreciate the intrusion if they find it by accident.
Now return to the last intersection and follow the wall east-northeast and downhill to the park road. The last few yards are a little brushy, but easily doable. Turn right and return.
CT Hunting Regulations
CT Hunting Season Specifics
Generally, Sept 15th through Jan 31st.
CT Firearms Safety Program
In Memorium, Conservation Officer James Spignesi
On this hill in the final days of colonialism in America, on an all-but-forgotten night, patriots burned a tar barrel to signal the coming of the British. Now Jeremy Hill is the site of the obscure and rarely visited, but still marvelous, Assekonk Wildlife Management Area. This single letterbox is on an easy 2 mile, 90 minute hike, with more off-trail hiking than usual, following an out-and-back course on a pleasant woods road with a teardrop shaped, off-trail loop around a pine grove at the bottom. The Assekonk Swamp is revered by the birding community for its rich wetland habitat. Hunting is also popular here: wear your blaze orange from October to May, or come on a Sunday, the hunter's day of rest. And don't forget your bug spray!
Directions: In North Stonington CT, take exit 92 from I-95 and follow CT Rte. 2 West. At the rotary, turn onto Rte. 184 West and travel 1.8 miles. Turn right into the third driveway after the town-line sign, marked with #825 on the mailbox, pass a beautiful colonial-era farmhouse on the left and then bear right onto a forest road. A hundred yards down the road, park in the small grassy spot on the right just before the refuge's gate.
Walk through the gate and follow the road north, passing another grassy parking area and going through another gate. Follow this graceful old farm road, with walls and stately silver maple on either hand, gently downhill for about a mile to its end at Assekonk Swamp. A few steps farther northeast on a faint track will bring you to a stone wall and the wetlands.
Turn left and follow the wall on a faint track generally northwest to a shady stand of evergreen on the left. We'll make a counter-clockwise loop around the perimeter of this one-acre pine grove: continuing northwest, skirt between the forest on the left and the swampy wall on the right. A short bit along, watch for old barbed wire, pass through, and turn left to head south-southwest uphill on a faint trail in the trees, paralleling a different stone wall 50 feet off to the right. At the top, another wall intersects the way: turn right and follow the path of least resistance west-southwest to a three-way wall intersection. The Tar Barrel Hill Letterbox is in the western end of that intersecting wall, just behind a big twin oak. Please re-hide it well: hunters are not likely to appreciate the intrusion if they find it by accident.
Now return to the last intersection and follow the wall east-northeast and downhill to the park road. The last few yards are a little brushy, but easily doable. Turn right and return.