Sand Hills LbNA #1576 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Oct 10, 2002 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Hutchinson |
| County: | Reno |
| State: | Kansas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | rtrw  |
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| Found by: | Not yet found! |
| Last found: | N/A |
| Status: | aa |
| Last edited: | Oct 10, 2002 |
7/31/06 - letterbox is out of place and missing a stamp. I'm going to pull it off the active list
Difficulty – medium. It wasn’t too easy to find obvious landmarks on the path
Time – 30 minutes
Directions to starting place – North of Hutchinson on Hwy K-61. Access at East 69th street. Go to the first parking lot.
Details you should know – Sandhills State Park is about 1,200 acres of sand prairie habitat that is filled with wildlife. There is a per person fee to walk through this park. I think it’s $2.50 a day.
Details you don’t need to know – I saw wonderful grassy dunes at the other end of the park. Lots and lots of nettles in my socks and shoes. I read somewhere that the place is full of sandhill plums, which only makes sense, I suppose.
Clues:
Follow the cement path from the parking lot toward the “women” sign.
When you reach the park bench, fork off the cement onto a trail to your right and southwest.
Cross the bridge.
Fairly soon you will come to a stopping place. There is a picnic table, a bench and a mailbox.
Go a little beyond that and take a right at the park bench and then a right fork when the option appears.
You will come to a tree that crosses over the trail. Walk 50 paces (100 steps) to …
… the two trunked tree that has one trunk growing up straight and the other looks like it is bent over and looks like it is growing back toward the ground. There are some fallen trees on the other side of the trail. From here, take 12 paces (24 steps) to the trail’s right turn.
When the trail makes a fairly clear right hand turn start counting 24 paces (48 steps).
Letterbox is on the left side of the trail behind a fallen log with another downed log lying across it.
Difficulty – medium. It wasn’t too easy to find obvious landmarks on the path
Time – 30 minutes
Directions to starting place – North of Hutchinson on Hwy K-61. Access at East 69th street. Go to the first parking lot.
Details you should know – Sandhills State Park is about 1,200 acres of sand prairie habitat that is filled with wildlife. There is a per person fee to walk through this park. I think it’s $2.50 a day.
Details you don’t need to know – I saw wonderful grassy dunes at the other end of the park. Lots and lots of nettles in my socks and shoes. I read somewhere that the place is full of sandhill plums, which only makes sense, I suppose.
Clues:
Follow the cement path from the parking lot toward the “women” sign.
When you reach the park bench, fork off the cement onto a trail to your right and southwest.
Cross the bridge.
Fairly soon you will come to a stopping place. There is a picnic table, a bench and a mailbox.
Go a little beyond that and take a right at the park bench and then a right fork when the option appears.
You will come to a tree that crosses over the trail. Walk 50 paces (100 steps) to …
… the two trunked tree that has one trunk growing up straight and the other looks like it is bent over and looks like it is growing back toward the ground. There are some fallen trees on the other side of the trail. From here, take 12 paces (24 steps) to the trail’s right turn.
When the trail makes a fairly clear right hand turn start counting 24 paces (48 steps).
Letterbox is on the left side of the trail behind a fallen log with another downed log lying across it.