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Get Outdoors and Be Creative! - Explore LbNA #47745 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jun 6, 2009
Location:
City:Jacobus
County:York
State:Pennsylvania
Boxes:1
Found by: Mamaw Ladybug
Last found:Jul 16, 2009
Status:FF
Last edited:Jun 6, 2009
The following letterbox is part of the GO York "Get Outdoors and Be Creative!" program. It will only be available between June 6, 2009 and September 7, 2009. To participate in the program, please pick up your official "Get Outdoors and Be Creative! Sketch Book at any York County library.

In addition, this program uses creativity stations - a wooden marker post with an engraved plate on it - instead of a traditional letterbox. Please make sure to have a crayon with you to carefully rub the picture in your Sketch Book. Further information about the "Get Outdoors and Be Creative!" program may be found at www.goyork.org.

This creativity station is located at Richard M. Nixon County Park. GO York Kids level of difficulty = 3

1. As you exit the front doors of the Nature Center, walk toward the U.S. postal mailbox and locate the boardwalk.
2. Travel along the boardwalk and once you reach the end, turn right onto a stone path.
3. Go across wooden bridge and follow the trail to the pond.
4. Stop at the pond and explore the area for creatures. Can you spot a turtle, fish or maybe a snake?
5. Continue in the direction you are walking. At the end of the pond, bear to the left, cross the wooden bridge and begin following the red/blue blaze trail markings on the trees. You will be following the creek upstream.
6. Turn right and continue to follow the red/blue blaze trail as it heads uphill including numerous sets of steps.
7. Continue to explore your surroundings. Can you spot or hear a squirrel running through the woods?
8. Near the top of the hill, turn left at the #4 green post.
9. The trail will leave the woods and head into a shrub/meadow area. Continue to follow the mowed trail through a tree line and into a meadow. A farm fence may be seen on your left.
10. Keep a look out for birds, especially bluebirds in the meadow.
11. Continue to follow the trail as it weaves through the meadow. Near the top of the hill (and near the 2nd shed in the farm field) will be a wooden observation deck. The creativity station is attached on the deck.