GSL Junction LbNA #54869 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jul 31, 2010 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Garfield |
| County: | Salt Lake |
| State: | Utah |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Roamin' Romans  |
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| Found by: | Boxer Lover |
| Last found: | Jun 27, 2011 |
| Status: | FFFFr |
| Last edited: | Jul 31, 2010 |
**** Currently unavailable!
**** Road crews are working on the road and the letterbox **** has gone missing. We'll replant when the work is done.
This is a simple drive-by letterbox. Or is it? Yeah, it probably is. The only difficulty is in finding the proper place to pull off the road.
There is a historical marker on Utah highway 201 about 2 1/2 miles west of Magna. It's pretty hard to spot. It's on the north side of the road and marked by a postcard-sized brown sign that says "Historical Marker". It's some pretty descriptive labeling.
The marker isn't too far from the sign. In fact, if you don't start slowing as soon as you see the sign, you probably won't be able to slow down quickly enough to stop without causing an accident. There's plenty of shoulder to park on, though.
The historical maker is about "Toronto Cave", a cave (as you might have guessed) that provided shelter to people traveling west beyond the Salt Lake Valley. It was also a Pony Express station, and a stopping place for the Overland Mail.
My favorite part about this area, however, is the train tracks. Growing up, I traveled this road every week and would look out at the trains passing by. This is the place where trains coming from southern California and the trains coming from northern California meet. If you look to the West you can see the tracks heading off into the distance following I-80. If you continue around the mountain you'll see another set of tracks heading southwest.
To find the box: Facing the Historical Marker look to your left. You should see 2 yellow posts sticking out of the ground with a cable between them. You'll know them when you see them; there's not much else out there. In the middle of the cable is a flat piece of metal pointing down. You'll find the letterbox near the northeast corner of the rock the the flat piece of metal is pointing to.
Feel free to add more rocks on top of the box; we weren't able to find many in our rush to beat the setting sun.
(This was a really long clue for such a simple find, wasn't it?)
**** Road crews are working on the road and the letterbox **** has gone missing. We'll replant when the work is done.
This is a simple drive-by letterbox. Or is it? Yeah, it probably is. The only difficulty is in finding the proper place to pull off the road.
There is a historical marker on Utah highway 201 about 2 1/2 miles west of Magna. It's pretty hard to spot. It's on the north side of the road and marked by a postcard-sized brown sign that says "Historical Marker". It's some pretty descriptive labeling.
The marker isn't too far from the sign. In fact, if you don't start slowing as soon as you see the sign, you probably won't be able to slow down quickly enough to stop without causing an accident. There's plenty of shoulder to park on, though.
The historical maker is about "Toronto Cave", a cave (as you might have guessed) that provided shelter to people traveling west beyond the Salt Lake Valley. It was also a Pony Express station, and a stopping place for the Overland Mail.
My favorite part about this area, however, is the train tracks. Growing up, I traveled this road every week and would look out at the trains passing by. This is the place where trains coming from southern California and the trains coming from northern California meet. If you look to the West you can see the tracks heading off into the distance following I-80. If you continue around the mountain you'll see another set of tracks heading southwest.
To find the box: Facing the Historical Marker look to your left. You should see 2 yellow posts sticking out of the ground with a cable between them. You'll know them when you see them; there's not much else out there. In the middle of the cable is a flat piece of metal pointing down. You'll find the letterbox near the northeast corner of the rock the the flat piece of metal is pointing to.
Feel free to add more rocks on top of the box; we weren't able to find many in our rush to beat the setting sun.
(This was a really long clue for such a simple find, wasn't it?)