Lake Thunderbird Series LbNA #20563 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | GoodOleDays  |
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| Plant date: | Feb 25, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Norman |
| County: | Cleveland |
| State: | Oklahoma |
| Boxes: | 4 |
| Found by: | Snickers & Starbuck |
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| Last found: | Jun 7, 2009 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFar |
| Last edited: | Feb 25, 2006 |
This is a series of 4 boxes to help acquaint you with this wonderful lake and state park right here in the middle of Oklahoma!
Clues:
THE SAILBOAT BOX..... is near the main entrance to the park. From Norman, go east on Alameda Drive to Lake Thunderbird...or from I-40 take the Choctaw Road exit south until it dead ends in the lake at Alameda Drive. Turn left on Alameda and go into Lake Thunderbird State Park. You can stop at the ranger station and get a map of the lake that will help in finding these boxes as well as the Seminole box that is hidden in the area.
Turn right on Sailboat Drive - at the park entrance - and park at the playground area by the restrooms.
Walk down the road a bit more to the large open area on the right of the road. Step over the short fence and walk across the open space toward the lake.
There will be a path from the open space toward the lake in about the middle of the space.
Take the path toward the lake. On the path just past a huge cedar (on your left) you will come in sight of the lake and the penninsula. There will be a small cedar on the left of the path and just 7 paces off the path into the woods, there will be a large cedar nestled under a large hardwood tree. The box is hidden about shoulder height between the cedar and the large hardwood.
THE MALLARD DUCKS....
This box is missing.
THE FISHING BOAT.....
Go back to Alameda Drive and leave the park area. Continue on Alameda across a bridge over the lake to 84th Avenue. Turn South and proceed to Highway 9. Turn left (east) on Highway 9 and go the 142nd Avenue. You will pass the entrance to the Little River Zoo (120th avenue on your right). If you have time, this is a wonderful private zoo that our family has enjoyed on several ocassions. WELL worth the trip! As you turn back toward the lake on 142nd you'll pass the Crows Secret Nature Center on your right. Follow the road past the stables. Follow the signs to the Clear Bay Area Handicap 1/4 mile hiking trail. To reach it, turn left at the boat dock and follow the road around to the beginning of the trail - on your right. Park and start in on the paved trail on the left side next to the sign for the Fawns Rest Nature Trail. You'll go past a sign about "animal clues"...there'll be an area on your left to sit and contemplate....continue on past another resting place. There'll be a sign about "food for wildlife not for people" on your left, and just past that the trail will curve to the right. Leave the trail next to a small cedar tree on the left and about 30 feet off the trail will be large cedar. The box is about waist high on the back side of the tree. If you get to the "preditors" sign on the trail, you've missed the place to leave the trail.
SPEEDBOAT....
Go back around the parking area to the trailhead of the "Clear Bay Trail". Follow the trail down hill...You'll be walking down a series of root steps. After a while there will be a small wooden bridge.
When the path starts back up hill, there will be two huge trees very close to each side of the path...forming gateposts with no gate between them. Standing between the two trees, stretch your left hand out toward the beach and you'll be pointing to a cedar that's approximately 30 paces off the trail toward the lake. It is bare on bottom but above waist high you'll find the box among it's branches on the lake side.
Clues:
THE SAILBOAT BOX..... is near the main entrance to the park. From Norman, go east on Alameda Drive to Lake Thunderbird...or from I-40 take the Choctaw Road exit south until it dead ends in the lake at Alameda Drive. Turn left on Alameda and go into Lake Thunderbird State Park. You can stop at the ranger station and get a map of the lake that will help in finding these boxes as well as the Seminole box that is hidden in the area.
Turn right on Sailboat Drive - at the park entrance - and park at the playground area by the restrooms.
Walk down the road a bit more to the large open area on the right of the road. Step over the short fence and walk across the open space toward the lake.
There will be a path from the open space toward the lake in about the middle of the space.
Take the path toward the lake. On the path just past a huge cedar (on your left) you will come in sight of the lake and the penninsula. There will be a small cedar on the left of the path and just 7 paces off the path into the woods, there will be a large cedar nestled under a large hardwood tree. The box is hidden about shoulder height between the cedar and the large hardwood.
THE MALLARD DUCKS....
This box is missing.
THE FISHING BOAT.....
Go back to Alameda Drive and leave the park area. Continue on Alameda across a bridge over the lake to 84th Avenue. Turn South and proceed to Highway 9. Turn left (east) on Highway 9 and go the 142nd Avenue. You will pass the entrance to the Little River Zoo (120th avenue on your right). If you have time, this is a wonderful private zoo that our family has enjoyed on several ocassions. WELL worth the trip! As you turn back toward the lake on 142nd you'll pass the Crows Secret Nature Center on your right. Follow the road past the stables. Follow the signs to the Clear Bay Area Handicap 1/4 mile hiking trail. To reach it, turn left at the boat dock and follow the road around to the beginning of the trail - on your right. Park and start in on the paved trail on the left side next to the sign for the Fawns Rest Nature Trail. You'll go past a sign about "animal clues"...there'll be an area on your left to sit and contemplate....continue on past another resting place. There'll be a sign about "food for wildlife not for people" on your left, and just past that the trail will curve to the right. Leave the trail next to a small cedar tree on the left and about 30 feet off the trail will be large cedar. The box is about waist high on the back side of the tree. If you get to the "preditors" sign on the trail, you've missed the place to leave the trail.
SPEEDBOAT....
Go back around the parking area to the trailhead of the "Clear Bay Trail". Follow the trail down hill...You'll be walking down a series of root steps. After a while there will be a small wooden bridge.
When the path starts back up hill, there will be two huge trees very close to each side of the path...forming gateposts with no gate between them. Standing between the two trees, stretch your left hand out toward the beach and you'll be pointing to a cedar that's approximately 30 paces off the trail toward the lake. It is bare on bottom but above waist high you'll find the box among it's branches on the lake side.