Biking Turtle LbNA #41754
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jul 13, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Candia |
| County: | Rockingham |
| State: | New Hampshire |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Rats and Turtle  |
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| Found by: | Birding Granny |
| Last found: | Aug 4, 2008 |
| Status: | FF |
| Last edited: | Jul 13, 2008 |
This is another in a series being developed along the Rockingham Rail Trail from Manchester to the seacoast. You can get on this trail at Lake Massabesic in Manchester/Auburn and at many spots east of there. To ride one of the prettiest sections of the trail, park across the street from MsC Children’s Learning Center in Candia. You will find this spot by taking Rte 43 East from Exit 3 off 101. When 43 turns northish, you go straight (bear right) onto Main Street. In 0.4 mile there is parking on the right (the learning center is on the left). Hop on the trail there. The Emerson Marsh Turtle letterbox is 0.5 miles from this parking.
Continue east on the rail trail for 2.7 miles after you cross Patten Hill Road to Depot Road (if you are in a hurry or a bit lazy, you can park off Depot Road; there is a sign here marking the East Candia Depot and plenty of parking but you will miss some pretty scenery!). The Biking Turtle Letterbox is 0.4 miles east of Depot Road. About halfway to the box you will cross under high tension power lines. Next you will come to a culvert, noticeable as a cement bridge-wall on the right. This part of the trail has a beautiful wetlands with a river winding through on the right side of the trail. Water lilies were blooming when we hid the box. When you get to the culvert, turn around and see an orange “buried cable” warning post back up the trail a few yards, on the wetlands side. 5 steps before the post, on the side of the rail trail opposite the wetlands is a small opening in the trees and you can enter the cool forest there. 9 steps will take you down into a small ravine and another 9 steps will bring you to the foot of a jumble of angular rocks about 7 feet high. (extra landmarks: To the right just before you reach the jumble is a pointed rock, 2-3 feet high, all by its lonesome self. In the flat area above the jumble, before the cliff, is a large pine tree) Across the top of the jumble is a small dead pine tree. One branch of the tree is broken off and is laying across the jumble about halfway up. Biking Turtle is hiding behind a melon-shaped rock in a triangular opening formed under the largest rock at the top of the jumble propped up against a smaller rock between these two pieces of tree.
Continue east on the rail trail for 2.7 miles after you cross Patten Hill Road to Depot Road (if you are in a hurry or a bit lazy, you can park off Depot Road; there is a sign here marking the East Candia Depot and plenty of parking but you will miss some pretty scenery!). The Biking Turtle Letterbox is 0.4 miles east of Depot Road. About halfway to the box you will cross under high tension power lines. Next you will come to a culvert, noticeable as a cement bridge-wall on the right. This part of the trail has a beautiful wetlands with a river winding through on the right side of the trail. Water lilies were blooming when we hid the box. When you get to the culvert, turn around and see an orange “buried cable” warning post back up the trail a few yards, on the wetlands side. 5 steps before the post, on the side of the rail trail opposite the wetlands is a small opening in the trees and you can enter the cool forest there. 9 steps will take you down into a small ravine and another 9 steps will bring you to the foot of a jumble of angular rocks about 7 feet high. (extra landmarks: To the right just before you reach the jumble is a pointed rock, 2-3 feet high, all by its lonesome self. In the flat area above the jumble, before the cliff, is a large pine tree) Across the top of the jumble is a small dead pine tree. One branch of the tree is broken off and is laying across the jumble about halfway up. Biking Turtle is hiding behind a melon-shaped rock in a triangular opening formed under the largest rock at the top of the jumble propped up against a smaller rock between these two pieces of tree.