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Great Pumpkin LbNA #27483

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Nov 27, 2006
Location:
City:New Freedom
County:York
State:Pennsylvania
Boxes:1
Planted by:Pappa Bear
Found by: Super Rod
Last found:Nov 20, 2010
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFaaa
Last edited:Nov 27, 2006
This is a nice enjoyable walk any time of year suitable for kids and adults alike. Start you quest on the York County Heritage Rail Trail (http://ycwebserver.york-county.org/Parks/RailTrail.htm) in Railroad, PA. Exit 4 off of I-83 and head west on 851, follow the signs to Railroad. When you cross the tracks at the bottom of the hill and turn left at the “T” intersection onto 851. Follow this road into New Freedom. Turn left on Franklin Street, the parking lot is 1 block on the left corner of Front and Franklin Streets.

Park near the Train Station in New Freedom, PA. You can spend some time and enjoy the caboose, museum, and café that is there.

Walk south out of town along the foot path in front of the train station headed south. Enjoy all the small town charm as you walk through town crossing four streets. The last street you cross will be McCullaugh Ave.

As you leave town you will enter a grove of trees, this will form a canopy of shade in the summer and make for an enjoyable walk any time of year. After a short distance, you will see a large fallen tree pointing towards the tracks on the left and slightly ahead of that on the right side of the trail will be the first large out cropping of rocks. From the MCI Buried Cable sign just beyond the rock outcropping, take 67 steps down the trail to the south. You will see small stand of trees (5 in all) right off the trail on the right. The Great Pumpkin Letterbox will be in the center of these trees covered with leaves and sticks.