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GARRISON HILL LbNA #4999 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jul 28, 2003
Location:
City:Dover
County:Strafford
State:New Hampshire
Boxes:1
Planted by:RedRover
Found by: Daweems
Last found:May 30, 2005
Status:FFFFaFFFFaaaaaaaa
Last edited:Jul 28, 2003
GARRISON HILL

GONE MISSING! Sorry, the Garrison Hill Letterbox has gone missing. I will replace it asap -- hopefully this weekend.

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This is an easy walk on grass and dirt foot paths, that can be done in five minutes from the parking area. I have tried to make it a good one for kids to lead their parents to.

Garrison Hill Park, in Dover, NH, is open to the public, free of charge, from sunrise to sunset every day. There is a water bubbler at the park, but no other services. The road to the park may not be cleared of snow all the way to the top during the winter months.

There is a great view of the surrounding area from the top of the observation tower, but it is not necessary to climb the tower to find the letterbox.

Garrison Hill Park is on the Dover year-round Volksmarch route. See www.ava.org/ for more information on Volksmarching.


Driving Directions:

Entering Dover from about any direction should bring you to Central Ave. Just follow the “H” signs toward the Wentworth – Douglass Hospital. Proceed on Central Ave. to Abby Sawyer Memorial Hwy. If coming from the south (downtown area), it will be on your right before you reach the hospital. From the north (Somersworth, Rochester) it will be on your left, just after the hospital. There is a sign for Garrison Hill Park at the intersection. (Note: don’t be looking for any conventional highway. This is a two-lane paved road that is barely wide enough to pass an oncoming car on.) Follow the Abby Sawyer Memorial “Highway” to the top of Garrison Hill where it ends in a parking lot.


Letterbox Directions

From the parking lot, face the observation tower. Just to the left of the tower is a pole with a sign that reads “Garrison Hill Nature Walk”. Go over near that pole.

From the area of the pole, with the parking lot to your back, you will see a cellular telephone tower (has three arms at it’s top), along with it’s associated building, surrounded by a chain-link fence. Go toward the cellular tower. In about 35 paces (or about three-quarters the way to the fence) and just before a utility pole, you will find a path that goes off to the left.

Take this path, which goes down hill under the electric lines, for about 50 paces. This should bring you, before you reach the next utility pole, to a fork in the path. Stop here and look for the sign that says “NO SNOWMOBILES”. The sign is on a big -- now broken off just above the sign -- White Burch tree that is about 30 degrees to the right of the utility pole. You may have to move just a pace or two to the left to see it because of tree branches in the way. Keep a mental note of the location of this tree as you proceed. If you had to move to see the sign, return now to the center of the intersection

Facing in the direction of the sign, take the right fork of the trail. Go about 18 paces down the trail, stop, and look to your left. About 10 paces away, you should see the other side of the big Burch tree that has the sign on it.

Go toward the tree. Right after you step over the fallen trunk of the tree, stop and look to the right. About ten pases away you should see one lone rock (a bit larger than a basket ball) amongst the trees. Walk up to this rock and look, on the ground, about two feet to the right of it for a square piece of metal. It may be covered in leaves. Lift the metal plate and the letter box will be found.

This location is pretty well hidden from the view of those on the observation tower and in the park proper, so you just have to be aware of people using the paths. Please sprinkle a few leaves on the metal after you return the letter box.


Please feel free to 'Contact the Placer' to let me know if my directions were good and the condition of the letterbox.

Thanks and happy letterboxing!