Chemung River LbNA #29931
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Apr 10, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Elmira |
| County: | Chemung |
| State: | New York |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Planted by: | Wilykat  |
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| Found by: | Wilykat |
| Last found: | May 22, 2009 |
| Status: | FFaFFFFO |
| Last edited: | Apr 10, 2007 |
The Chemung River is a beautiful, winding stretch of water that meanders through Chemung County. The name of the river comes from the Iroquois words for "big horn" or "horns in the water", which refers to mammoth tusks that have been found there.
From West Water St., turn south on Grove Ave and park at the Chemung River Fishing Access site. Walk west on top of the dyke, passing Foster's Pond on your left. The residential area on your right was the site of the Civil War prison camp known as "Hellmira."
Box #1: Continue along the dyke until you reach a path leading down the dyke towards the river. Take this path into the woods. A warning: during spring or after heavy rains a dip in this path will likely be flooded, but it is usually narrow enough to jump across. You should be prepared for mud. Follow the path a short ways into the woods until you reach a broad ditch. Walk towards the river and find a wide path heading westward along the bank of the river. Follow the bank upriver, to the west. You will pass a large, old tree divided into three trunks, then a firepit. Continue on until you reach another large tree, slightly smaller than the first. Take five steps north from the north side of the tree, then, finally, look at the base of a sapling and buried under leaves.
Box #2: Just past the first box, the trail meets another which continues along the riverside. Walk along this trail; you will pass the remnants of stone and concrete foundations on your right that were likely left by houses destroyed in the flood of 1972 which damaged much of downtown Elmira. Continuing down the trail, you will emerge from an area of thicker woods into an area that is less densely forested, with trees scattered around a grassy field. On top of the hill across the river you will see a tall metal cell phone/radio tower. When you are about even with this tower, look to your right and notice that past this tower the trees stop and there is a grassy field. Find the clump of trees and brush that lines up with the tower (the cluster alongside the field, closest to the trail; it is the one furthest to the southwest of the other groups of trees). On the side facing the river, the box is tucked under the brush, towards the west end of the fallen log.
Happy hunting!
From West Water St., turn south on Grove Ave and park at the Chemung River Fishing Access site. Walk west on top of the dyke, passing Foster's Pond on your left. The residential area on your right was the site of the Civil War prison camp known as "Hellmira."
Box #1: Continue along the dyke until you reach a path leading down the dyke towards the river. Take this path into the woods. A warning: during spring or after heavy rains a dip in this path will likely be flooded, but it is usually narrow enough to jump across. You should be prepared for mud. Follow the path a short ways into the woods until you reach a broad ditch. Walk towards the river and find a wide path heading westward along the bank of the river. Follow the bank upriver, to the west. You will pass a large, old tree divided into three trunks, then a firepit. Continue on until you reach another large tree, slightly smaller than the first. Take five steps north from the north side of the tree, then, finally, look at the base of a sapling and buried under leaves.
Box #2: Just past the first box, the trail meets another which continues along the riverside. Walk along this trail; you will pass the remnants of stone and concrete foundations on your right that were likely left by houses destroyed in the flood of 1972 which damaged much of downtown Elmira. Continuing down the trail, you will emerge from an area of thicker woods into an area that is less densely forested, with trees scattered around a grassy field. On top of the hill across the river you will see a tall metal cell phone/radio tower. When you are about even with this tower, look to your right and notice that past this tower the trees stop and there is a grassy field. Find the clump of trees and brush that lines up with the tower (the cluster alongside the field, closest to the trail; it is the one furthest to the southwest of the other groups of trees). On the side facing the river, the box is tucked under the brush, towards the west end of the fallen log.
Happy hunting!