Montour Preserve LbNA #51476
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Nov 15, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Danville |
| County: | Montour |
| State: | Pennsylvania |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Fossil Hunters  |
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| Found by: | Nicole E Tobias |
| Last found: | Aug 5, 2018 |
| Status: | FFFFFFa |
| Last edited: | Nov 15, 2009 |
1. Begin your journey at the Montour Preserve Visitors & Educational Center. The preserve is owned by PPL Corporation and you can access the Preserve's website at www.pplpreserves.com and then click on "Montour" on the right side.
2. The Montour Preserve has hiking trails, picnic areas, and a 165 acre lake if you enjoy boating or fishing. The Preserve is also a popular place for Geocaching and is a great place to spend the day exploring. Part of the reason for placing our letterbox here is to share this place we found with others.
3. This is how we got there: Route 80 West to exit 224 and keep left at the off ramp. Turn left at the stop sign onto Route 54 West. Follow the road into Washingtonville and make a right onto Strawberry Ridge Road. Continue until you see the PPL power plant and turn left onto PPL Road (you will see a lot of greenhouses on the left). Go about 3 miles and make a right onto Preserve Road (SR1006). The PPL Visitors & Educational Center will be on the left side.
4. Please visit the Visitors & Educational Center - you might want to call or check their website to make sure of when it is open. This facility serves as a nature and history museum. Inside are many wild stuffed animals on display as well as a fossil display of samples that could be found at the PPL Preserve Fossil Pit. Take a close look at the fossils on display because you are about to travel back in time to the Devonian period, which was about 360-410 million years ago!
5. When you are ready to continue your journey, make a left out of the parking lot, back onto Preserve Road.
6. Continue about 1/2 mile and you will see the blue PPL Preserve Fossil Pit sign on the right. Park there.
7. Stand facing the sign about five feet away from it. Point your watch at the sign with the "12" pointing at the middle of the sign.
8. Travel towards the "10" on your watch, following the short grassy trail. Behind the green giants you will find a few deciduous trees. Your treasure will be behind one of the deciduous trees hidden under leaves.
9. After you read the information in the letterbox, the rest of your journey back in time will begin beyond the yellow gated fence.
10. About 360-410 million years ago, this area was once covered by a warm, shallow sea that was about 60-200 feet deep. As sediment washed down into the sea, it covered creatures that were once alive. Over millions of years, the pressure from additional layers of sediment and the water above it turned the sediment into rock (shale), and minerals replaced the original shell material (info borrowed from Morning Call).
2. The Montour Preserve has hiking trails, picnic areas, and a 165 acre lake if you enjoy boating or fishing. The Preserve is also a popular place for Geocaching and is a great place to spend the day exploring. Part of the reason for placing our letterbox here is to share this place we found with others.
3. This is how we got there: Route 80 West to exit 224 and keep left at the off ramp. Turn left at the stop sign onto Route 54 West. Follow the road into Washingtonville and make a right onto Strawberry Ridge Road. Continue until you see the PPL power plant and turn left onto PPL Road (you will see a lot of greenhouses on the left). Go about 3 miles and make a right onto Preserve Road (SR1006). The PPL Visitors & Educational Center will be on the left side.
4. Please visit the Visitors & Educational Center - you might want to call or check their website to make sure of when it is open. This facility serves as a nature and history museum. Inside are many wild stuffed animals on display as well as a fossil display of samples that could be found at the PPL Preserve Fossil Pit. Take a close look at the fossils on display because you are about to travel back in time to the Devonian period, which was about 360-410 million years ago!
5. When you are ready to continue your journey, make a left out of the parking lot, back onto Preserve Road.
6. Continue about 1/2 mile and you will see the blue PPL Preserve Fossil Pit sign on the right. Park there.
7. Stand facing the sign about five feet away from it. Point your watch at the sign with the "12" pointing at the middle of the sign.
8. Travel towards the "10" on your watch, following the short grassy trail. Behind the green giants you will find a few deciduous trees. Your treasure will be behind one of the deciduous trees hidden under leaves.
9. After you read the information in the letterbox, the rest of your journey back in time will begin beyond the yellow gated fence.
10. About 360-410 million years ago, this area was once covered by a warm, shallow sea that was about 60-200 feet deep. As sediment washed down into the sea, it covered creatures that were once alive. Over millions of years, the pressure from additional layers of sediment and the water above it turned the sediment into rock (shale), and minerals replaced the original shell material (info borrowed from Morning Call).