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Big Boulder LbNA #25022

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Aug 27, 2006
Location:
City:Elkton
County:Cecil
State:Maryland
Boxes:1
Found by: Pink Panther
Last found:Dec 31, 2012
Status:FFFFFF
Last edited:Aug 27, 2006
Start your walk by parking at the Fair Hill Nature Center parking lot.
(to get to the parking lot: assuming that you are going east on Rt. 273, pass the intersection with Rt. 213, then take any of the 3 entrances into the race track area, turn left and follow the signs for the Fair Hill Nature Center (also called FHNEC), you will cross the bridge over Rt. 273, keep going straight, then turn right onto Tawnes Drive (still following signs for FHNEC) until you come to the parking lot.

1.go south form the covered bridge on the west side of the stream
2.Cross a wooden foot bridge
3.climb up the steps
4.turn left, keep going straight, cross another foot bridge, go straight until you come to a red sign that says: Nature Trail, Children learning, No horses at any time
5.Turn right at the sign
6.When you come to a slight fork, turn left
7.Walk until you come to a field, turn right and walk along the right edge of the field
8.When you come to the corner of the field, a path will become visible straight ahead
9.Follow the path, you will go through a region of pine trees
10.This path will merge into a orange blazed trail
11.Follow the orange trail, at one point you have to make a sharp right turn
12.The trail will go downhill a bit, follow the orange blazes
13.When the trail comes very close to a steep bank on your left, stop and look to your right. You will spot a gigantic boulder halfway up the hillside to your right.
14.The box is hidden in a crevice in the boulder. Please don't rip out the ferns that grow on the boulder, they only grow in this one spot!