Spotted Owl LbNA #45866
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Add Location| Owner: | The Olde Oak  |
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| Plant date: | Mar 8, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Ukiah |
| County: | Mendocino |
| State: | California |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | fleetwood7 |
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| Last found: | Feb 1, 2018 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFa |
| Last edited: | Mar 8, 2009 |
The Spotted Owl Letterbox is in Montgomery Woods. One day a few years ago a park ranger took me up the hill there and pointed out a spotted owl. Don’t know if that particular owl is still with us, but spotted owls do live in Montgomery Woods and they have been known to live as long as 21 years.
To read more about spotted owls go here: http://www.owlpages.com/owls.php?genus=Strix&species=occidentalis
To find Montgomery Woods take the North State Street exit on Highway 101 in Ukiah. Drive north on North State Street. After a mile or two to your left you’ll see Orr Springs Road. Drive 14.2 miles west on Orr Springs Road to Montgomery Woods. The road is narrow in spots and bumpy at times, but paved and includes beautiful vistas and great trees. Watch the white mile markers. The last one you will see will be 29.73. Soon you will also see a rather modest set of signs low and to the right telling you you’re on state park land. When you see the unpaved parking area for Montgomery Woods to your left park there. If you drive across the bridge you know you’ve gone too far. The parking lot is just before that bridge. Walk to the southwest end of the parking area.
Head toward Montgomery Grove on the trail. Walk over the first bridge and head up and away from the little house on your right, past Elizabeth Orr on your left. Keep going up, up, up until you come to five short posts, one on your left and four on your right. Three of those four are grouped together and one is on its lonesome. Take the trail to your right next to the lonesome post. Immediately you will have another option. Stay to your right. Continue walking up until you reach a curve more acute than any you’ve taken followed immedately by 60 to 70 feet of flat trail. Go through that flat curve and soon you will reach a curve to the left and the grade will begin getting steep again. At the sharpest part of that curve to the left start counting 60 to 65 steps up until you see a large boulder, maybe 6 feet tall, leaning against a Douglas fir tree to your right. Walk maybe 10 feet to the boulder and around to side where the boulder meets the redwood. Under the boulder at that point hidden by rocks and forest debris will the Spotted Owl Letterbox.
Thanks for coming!
To read more about spotted owls go here: http://www.owlpages.com/owls.php?genus=Strix&species=occidentalis
To find Montgomery Woods take the North State Street exit on Highway 101 in Ukiah. Drive north on North State Street. After a mile or two to your left you’ll see Orr Springs Road. Drive 14.2 miles west on Orr Springs Road to Montgomery Woods. The road is narrow in spots and bumpy at times, but paved and includes beautiful vistas and great trees. Watch the white mile markers. The last one you will see will be 29.73. Soon you will also see a rather modest set of signs low and to the right telling you you’re on state park land. When you see the unpaved parking area for Montgomery Woods to your left park there. If you drive across the bridge you know you’ve gone too far. The parking lot is just before that bridge. Walk to the southwest end of the parking area.
Head toward Montgomery Grove on the trail. Walk over the first bridge and head up and away from the little house on your right, past Elizabeth Orr on your left. Keep going up, up, up until you come to five short posts, one on your left and four on your right. Three of those four are grouped together and one is on its lonesome. Take the trail to your right next to the lonesome post. Immediately you will have another option. Stay to your right. Continue walking up until you reach a curve more acute than any you’ve taken followed immedately by 60 to 70 feet of flat trail. Go through that flat curve and soon you will reach a curve to the left and the grade will begin getting steep again. At the sharpest part of that curve to the left start counting 60 to 65 steps up until you see a large boulder, maybe 6 feet tall, leaning against a Douglas fir tree to your right. Walk maybe 10 feet to the boulder and around to side where the boulder meets the redwood. Under the boulder at that point hidden by rocks and forest debris will the Spotted Owl Letterbox.
Thanks for coming!