Bar Gate Trail Letterbox LbNA #9329 (ARCHIVED)

The Bar Gate Trail Letterbox
Killingworth, Connecticut


MISSING AS OF 6/10/07 - maybe from a flood!

Placed By: Heather, Claudia and Laura Collinson (A.k.a. Pan, Prince and Baby Bunting)
Placed on: 2/23/02
Adopted by Bluebird 7/13/04 (brought over from old site)
Located on: Bar Gate Trail Rd in Killing worth, Connecticut. (Middlesex County)
Nearest town: Madison (borders our Trail)
(Don't forget the tag-along "Close to Home" Letterbox)

Bar Gate Trail Letterbox

The Killingworth Conservation Land Trusts Bar Gate Trail piece is located in Killingworth just off of Bar Gate Trail Rd in the Indian Springs housing development. It takes less than an hour to complete, the terrain is curvy but easy.
From I-95 take exit 62 or 61, from 62 travel north aprox. three miles on Horse Pond Rd and Hammonaset Connector to the intersection of Route 79 where there is a blinking traffic light. If you take exit 61-Route 79 follow roughly the same distance north to the same blinking light intersection. Take the first left after the light which is Chestnut Hill Rd. Proceed about .04 of a mile to your second left, Bar Gate Trail. (The bridge you pass over is the Hammonasset River and there you have entered Killingworth). Proceed up Bar Gate Trail to the first Rotary. Park beside the road just before the rotary or anywhere nearby. The beginning of the trail is on the left just before the rotary; go in by the green steel utility box. The blazes are reddish orange with a white dot and there is a KLCT sign posted nearby.
The Trail proceeds down hill almost to the river and then makes a sharp left onto the orangish-red-blazed trail. It winds along the river through a hemlock forest up and down the steep bank of the river. In the Spring, the ground may be muddy in spots where you have to cross over small tributaries. After about 15 or 20 minutes you will come to a small area of mountain laurel. Soon after this you come out from the forest briefly onto a berm of earth. There- is a smooth -barked tree arching the path with a blaze shortly below eye level. From this tree about four or five steps right down a steep slope is a large over hanging boulder. The gray birch may help you spot the area. This is the head of the snapper that swallowed the Bargate letterbox. Deep under the overhang behind a (placed) large piece of bark the letterbox awaits your stamp. Stamp in; return to the trail and proceed past a pond on the left. (This area used to be the site of the town dump). Soon you will return back into the forest. The trail winds along the river and finally empties into a thicket of brambles and berry bushes (Russian Olive makes a bower here) which brings you back to Bar Gate Trail, following the blazes. Take a left up the road for a 10 minute walk back to your car.


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