Trip Across America Part 6 LbNA #37808
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Feb 2, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Palatine |
| County: | Cook |
| State: | Illinois |
| Boxes: | 5 |
| Planted by: | Cherokee Rose 2  |
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| Found by: | goofy86 (4) |
| Last found: | Nov 1, 2012 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Feb 2, 2008 |
Deer Grove Forest Preserve, Palatine, IL
Enter the forest preserve just north of Dundee Road on the west side of Quentin Road. As you enter, turn right at the stop sign. Continue along this road for between 0.5 and 0.75 mile until you come to a parking lot with a trail sign that says, “Deer Grove Toboggan Slide. Mountain Bike Staging Area.” After you park, get on the trail just a little north of that sign. That will be the orange trail. You will remain on the orange trail for this entire hike.
Walking on the orange trail you will go through some guard rails. Keep walking but look for a wooden post about 3 feet tall. It will have an orange dot on it. Standing next to that post, take a reading of 280 degrees and walk about 30 steps in that direction to a 20 foot “stump” that is leaning slightly. Look inside the hole about 3 feet off the ground for Vermont.
Go back to the trail and continue in the same direction. Eventually you will see a chain link fence on your left. Keep walking and you will pass some picnic tables on your right. Keep walking and you’ll pass some picnic tables on your LEFT. As you walk you’ll see a sign for the black trail going off to your left. Stay on the orange trail. Watch for 2 picnic tables on your right. (The first one might not be very visible in the summer because it is set back quite a ways from the trail.) From the 2nd table, walk about 29 steps south/southwest to two trees that fell their separate ways but lie only about 2 feet apart. (They are lying end to end, not next to each other.) Look for New Hampshire in the tree whose top is facing west.
Now go back to the trail and start heading back the way you came from-toward your car. You won’t walk far before you see some yellow posts on the left side of the trail. (There are about 10-some are covered with snow today.) From the last post walk 36 steps to a fallen tree just off the trail on your right. Look in the end facing the trail for Michigan.
Continue walking toward you car. Pass the black trail going off to your right. Then you’ll see an orange trail marker on your left. The path will curve to the right a little bit. As you walk look on the right just off the trail for a tree lying parallel to the trail leaving a 6 foot stump. From the stump, New Mexico is waiting about 19 steps off the trail at the end of the large fallen tree that points towards the one that is parallel to the trail.
Go back to the trail and continue in the same direction for the last stop on this trip. Pass the picnic tables on the right. Watch for an orange trail marker on your left. Stand on the right side of the trail opposite the trail marker. Walk 24 steps into the woods where 2 trees form a V. There is a cozy spot in the base of the tree on the left where Utah is waiting.
That’s it for this segment of Trip Across America! These boxes were planted on February 2, 2008.
Enter the forest preserve just north of Dundee Road on the west side of Quentin Road. As you enter, turn right at the stop sign. Continue along this road for between 0.5 and 0.75 mile until you come to a parking lot with a trail sign that says, “Deer Grove Toboggan Slide. Mountain Bike Staging Area.” After you park, get on the trail just a little north of that sign. That will be the orange trail. You will remain on the orange trail for this entire hike.
Walking on the orange trail you will go through some guard rails. Keep walking but look for a wooden post about 3 feet tall. It will have an orange dot on it. Standing next to that post, take a reading of 280 degrees and walk about 30 steps in that direction to a 20 foot “stump” that is leaning slightly. Look inside the hole about 3 feet off the ground for Vermont.
Go back to the trail and continue in the same direction. Eventually you will see a chain link fence on your left. Keep walking and you will pass some picnic tables on your right. Keep walking and you’ll pass some picnic tables on your LEFT. As you walk you’ll see a sign for the black trail going off to your left. Stay on the orange trail. Watch for 2 picnic tables on your right. (The first one might not be very visible in the summer because it is set back quite a ways from the trail.) From the 2nd table, walk about 29 steps south/southwest to two trees that fell their separate ways but lie only about 2 feet apart. (They are lying end to end, not next to each other.) Look for New Hampshire in the tree whose top is facing west.
Now go back to the trail and start heading back the way you came from-toward your car. You won’t walk far before you see some yellow posts on the left side of the trail. (There are about 10-some are covered with snow today.) From the last post walk 36 steps to a fallen tree just off the trail on your right. Look in the end facing the trail for Michigan.
Continue walking toward you car. Pass the black trail going off to your right. Then you’ll see an orange trail marker on your left. The path will curve to the right a little bit. As you walk look on the right just off the trail for a tree lying parallel to the trail leaving a 6 foot stump. From the stump, New Mexico is waiting about 19 steps off the trail at the end of the large fallen tree that points towards the one that is parallel to the trail.
Go back to the trail and continue in the same direction for the last stop on this trip. Pass the picnic tables on the right. Watch for an orange trail marker on your left. Stand on the right side of the trail opposite the trail marker. Walk 24 steps into the woods where 2 trees form a V. There is a cozy spot in the base of the tree on the left where Utah is waiting.
That’s it for this segment of Trip Across America! These boxes were planted on February 2, 2008.