WEL #11 - Crested Butte LbNA #24756
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jun 10, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Crested Butte |
| County: | Gunnison |
| State: | Colorado |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Mandy "Cameo"  |
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| Found by: | Johnsosaurus |
| Last found: | Aug 14, 2016 |
| Status: | FFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Sep 16, 2015 |
#11 - CRESTED BUTTE (Part of the West Elk Loop Scenic Byway Series - all 12 Letterboxes for this Series may be seen at once by clicking on the "West Elk Loop Scenic Byway Series" clue sheet. Looking at that page may help direct you to this box.)
I didn't actually place this one IN Crested Butte because there is just so much development - I'm afraid it would get tractored over. So you're headed on to Kebler Pass. Watch carefully for a Phillips (?) gas station that has a "True Value" hardware store in that same building (the true value sign is small and only on the building). Turn left here on Whiterock. This road is sometimes called CR 112, CR 12, and Kebler Pass. I didn't see too many mile markers (maybe I just wasn't paying close enough attention), but the miles count down instead of up. As far as I could measure, there's a turnoff on the left side of the street apx. one mile BEFORE mile marker 27. Sorry, I could only find a mile marker after the fact. ☹ If you pass it, you'll see a gravel road going up the mountain on the right. From the turnout, you'll see a meadow about 75 yards across. On one edge is the road, and on the opposite edge is forest. The river winds all through the meadow. Beautiful! The box is near the tree next to the turnout, about 10 feet down a steep slope (be careful! The gravel makes it rather tricky). The box is tucked under the edge of a rock to the left of the tree (it's the larger rock in that immediate area). Don't bother looking beneath branches or through weeds.
I didn't actually place this one IN Crested Butte because there is just so much development - I'm afraid it would get tractored over. So you're headed on to Kebler Pass. Watch carefully for a Phillips (?) gas station that has a "True Value" hardware store in that same building (the true value sign is small and only on the building). Turn left here on Whiterock. This road is sometimes called CR 112, CR 12, and Kebler Pass. I didn't see too many mile markers (maybe I just wasn't paying close enough attention), but the miles count down instead of up. As far as I could measure, there's a turnoff on the left side of the street apx. one mile BEFORE mile marker 27. Sorry, I could only find a mile marker after the fact. ☹ If you pass it, you'll see a gravel road going up the mountain on the right. From the turnout, you'll see a meadow about 75 yards across. On one edge is the road, and on the opposite edge is forest. The river winds all through the meadow. Beautiful! The box is near the tree next to the turnout, about 10 feet down a steep slope (be careful! The gravel makes it rather tricky). The box is tucked under the edge of a rock to the left of the tree (it's the larger rock in that immediate area). Don't bother looking beneath branches or through weeds.