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About Letterboxing

Letterboxing is an intriguing “treasure hunt” style outdoor activity. Letterboxers hide small, weatherproof boxes in publicly-accessible places (like parks) and post clues to finding the box online on one of several Web sites. However, clues to finding some of the most highly-sought boxes are passed around by word of mouth.

There are about 60,000 active letterboxes listed on LbNA alone. Individual letterboxes usually contain a log book, an often hand-carved rubber stamp and occasionally contain an ink pad. Finders make an imprint of the letterbox’s stamp on their personal log book, and leave an imprint of their personal stamp on the letterbox’s logbook.

Letterboxer stamping into their logbook

What’s New?

Most Recently Found

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  7. Son of Alpheus ???, CT
  8. America the Beautiful...Colorado Tolland, CT
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  11. Eternal Love Coventry, CT
  12. Lunette - Jonathan Loomis Coventry, CT

Tip of the Day

When searching by location, you can use GPS coordinates if you use the latitude and longitude numbers as degrees (not degrees and minutes). For example: 42.6822, -71.1393 or 42 6822 -71 1393

Image of the Day

Image of the Day
Summit House, Skinner State Park, Hadley MA, July 2014 - photo by Walk Softly