"Bug Me" #3 LbNA #59789

This area was once an Osage Indian settlement. The 1100 acre park offers picnic tables, shelters, RV campsites, cabins, swimming pool, hiking and biking trails, ballfield, playgrounds, and tennis court. Lookout Lake and Sand Creek are available for fishing. During the Depression of the 1930's times were hard. In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The chief purposes of the CCC were to provide jobs and job training and to conserve the nation's resources. For $30 each month ($25 of which was sent home) over 2 million men and boys across the country worked to slow erosion; replant forests; build dams, bridges, buildings, and parks; build 126,000 miles of roads and trails; and install 89,000 miles of telephone lines. Osage Hills State Park was built by CCC Company 895 between 1936 and 1940. Some remains of the camp still remain. The buildings and bridges in the park were built out of native sandstone and are still in regular use.

"Bug Me" #3 letterbox can be found near the Look-Out Tower located in the unimproved camping area located to the north of the Tent & RV Camping grounds. From the Look-Out Tower go down the rock steps and take the path to the right. Look for the tree on your left that resembles a number 4. To your right will be a large rock with a small tree growing out of it. The letterbox can be found in this rock.

A stamp pad is not available in the box.