Coast Guard Cedars LbNA #16704 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | N/A |
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| Plant date: | Jul 21, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Eastham |
| County: | Barnstable |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Comet & Luna
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| Found by: | Otis' Friends |
| Last found: | Aug 7, 2009 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFaam |
| Last edited: | Jul 21, 2005 |
Coast Guard Cedars Letterbox
Difficulty - easy. Approximate distance - .4 miles one way.
Location: Eastham, MA. Take Route 6 East into Eastham. Take a right at the Salt Pond Visitor Center, a major intersection. This is Nauset Rd., which becomes Doane Rd. Follow signs for the Doane Rock Picnic area on your right, where you can park. There’s a two-hour parking limit, meant to repel beachgoers, but it’s plenty for your trip, including some bird-watching and sightseeing.
Proceed to the rock, where you can read about just how such a rock came to be there. Facing away from this explanation, follow the narrow paved path, which meets up with a wider paved path. From here, you can pretty much just follow signs to Coast Guard Beach (CGB), and it’s pretty hard to get lost. You’ll soon take a left onto an unpaved path, into the woods. Then, bear left onto a paved path, heading 60 degrees. Go left into the woods again, at a CGB sign. You will meet up with a paved bicycle trail, bearing left onto it.
You will come to a long wooden bridge going over a marsh. Cross it. At the end of the bridge, bear right, heading on an unpaved path into the woods. Count the wooden ties as you go up the path. At the sixth tie, with a multi-trunk cedar on your left, you will note a faint path going to the left. Go 16 paces down this path, or about six cedars passed on your immediate left. The box is under a pile of cedar brush on your left. The path is moderately traveled, so please be discreet.
I suggest you then follow the main path up to the Coast Guard station, which is an interesting old building, and has some remarkable views of the ocean and Nauset Marsh.
Difficulty - easy. Approximate distance - .4 miles one way.
Location: Eastham, MA. Take Route 6 East into Eastham. Take a right at the Salt Pond Visitor Center, a major intersection. This is Nauset Rd., which becomes Doane Rd. Follow signs for the Doane Rock Picnic area on your right, where you can park. There’s a two-hour parking limit, meant to repel beachgoers, but it’s plenty for your trip, including some bird-watching and sightseeing.
Proceed to the rock, where you can read about just how such a rock came to be there. Facing away from this explanation, follow the narrow paved path, which meets up with a wider paved path. From here, you can pretty much just follow signs to Coast Guard Beach (CGB), and it’s pretty hard to get lost. You’ll soon take a left onto an unpaved path, into the woods. Then, bear left onto a paved path, heading 60 degrees. Go left into the woods again, at a CGB sign. You will meet up with a paved bicycle trail, bearing left onto it.
You will come to a long wooden bridge going over a marsh. Cross it. At the end of the bridge, bear right, heading on an unpaved path into the woods. Count the wooden ties as you go up the path. At the sixth tie, with a multi-trunk cedar on your left, you will note a faint path going to the left. Go 16 paces down this path, or about six cedars passed on your immediate left. The box is under a pile of cedar brush on your left. The path is moderately traveled, so please be discreet.
I suggest you then follow the main path up to the Coast Guard station, which is an interesting old building, and has some remarkable views of the ocean and Nauset Marsh.