Columbus Park LbNA #: 28648
CluesTrail difficulty: easy; however, you walk on a soft dirt trail with a couple of small mounds
Walking distance: about 0.2 mile one way
Stamp hand-carved
Status: alive and well on April 30, 2009
This letterbox is in Christopher Columbus Park in the northwest part of Tucson. From I-10, take exit 252 and drive west on El Camino del Cerro. Turn left (south) on Silverbell Road. Turn left (east) into Columbus Park. Continue straight and park in the most northern parking lot.
From the parking lot, walk past Ramada 4 to Ramada 5 on the north edge of the lake. Then walk northeast to a dirt road. Turn left heading north on the dirt road, keep to right at an intersection. Walk towards a group of large vertical concrete pipes. Turn left on a dirt road that goes up to a low dirt berm (or linear dirt mound) (the vertical pipes are directly on the right). From the top of the berm, walk at about 286 degrees (from mag. north) for about 80 steps to a Desert Broom Bush on the right side of a dirt road. The box is under the north side of the bush under a rock covered with plant debris. Be alert for snakes.
Please be sure the contents are double ziplocked when you put them back in the box (i.e. the stamp is in a ziploc, the book is in a ziploc, and the two are in the larger ziploc bag) and put all of it INSIDE the box. Please rehide the box well under the rock and covered with some plant debris so that it can not be seen from any direction.
This box was placed for the 3rd Annual Tucson Letterboxers Gathering.
Please let me know if the box needs attention: http://members.cox.net/azroadie66/index.html
Please record your find at www.letterboxing.org/ or at www.atlasquest.com/ .
If you live in Arizona or New Mexico or have an interest in letterboxes in those states, you are invited to join the Letterboxing Southwest Discussion Group. Go here to join: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LetterboxingSouthwest/ .
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