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Caumset Amor LbNA #60948

Owner:Amor
Plant date:Feb 27, 2022
Location: Caumset Park
City:Huntington
County:Suffolk
State:New York
Boxes:1
Found by: Jaxx
Last found:Jun 24, 2012
Status:FFFF
Last edited:Feb 28, 2022
1. Park you horse (there’s an entry fee in the summer) and look for the stars and stripes or at least the place where it flies. Head toward that area.
2. Get the lay of the land near the flag post. See the Caumsett State Historic Park map? You’ll be traveling over 3 miles of the park to seek what you came for and return home again, but it’s beautiful country.
3. Go through map house, cross over a cobblestone road, past “Post 1” and continue in that direction along Main Drive path with red-brick walled garden to your right. Stop in garden as side trip in summer months and smell the roses (or other flowers there).
4. Continue along wall at your right and down the straight and narrow, with lines of trees standing guard on your left and right. Take care not to go faster than “15 mph”.
5. The straight and narrow bends to the left slightly approaching a grove of six evergreens (count them when you get there, but stay the path - you’ll only find lots of goose dropping in the pine needles).
6. Go past the “Winter Cottage.” “Post 20” should cross your path.
7. As always in life, you’ll come to a cross-road. You must STOP here. Don’t go to the Summer Cottage or Henry Lloyd Manor House unless you want a side trip. Go straight or we’ll have to corral you at the two story Lloyd Harbor Equestrian Center that you should past on your left. Check out the round windows in the second story. How many chimneys does that place have also?
8. The Service Drive path bends to the left and you should really smell “equestrian” and their “end” product now near the three level split rail fence and big yellow stable to your left.
9. Take a rest on benches next and enjoy the Cornus florida or Flowering Dogwood donated by Girl Scout Troop #115 in October 2007.
10. At Station #9 do some hamstring pulls so you don’t get a hamstring pull. Do some “Lift and Drops” to get that back limbered up also. You still have a ways to go, but “17” doesn’t mean you have 17 miles to go.
11. Do some Side Bends and “chill out” at Station #8.
12. Back to a long straightway through the black forest. Watch out for the lions and tigers and bears! Check out the three-pronged tree with warts to the left of Post #10.
13. Passed Post 16 and you’ll have traveled about 1 mile from main parking lot. Has it been a mile already? How do you know it’s a mile? Your about half way through.
14. Proceed no further until you’ve successfully balanced your way across the “Z” at Station #7. Then speed up your adventure by reaching your “Target Heart Beat Range” on the next stretch. Wait! Learn how to measure your pulse rate first and determine your resting pulse rate first.
15. Most trees grow straight up, but not this three-foot diameter tree on your left.
16. Do some Body Raises and Reverse Pull Ups to keep that pulse rate up and pass “15” next.
17. OK Big Moment #1 (BigM#1). You’ll come around bend and catch sight of Marshall Field the third (III)’s mansion. Don’t you wish you were that rich? Take your break now in nice Restrooms in Master’s Garage right before mansion. How old were you in 1925 when all this was built? Calvin Coolidge was president and they invented scotch tape that year.
18. Who owned this place? Marshall Field III (September 28, 1893 – November 8, 1956) was an American investment banker, publisher, racehorse owner/breeder, philanthropist, heir to the Marshall Field department store fortune and a leading financial supporter and founding board member of Saul Alinsky's community organizing network Industrial Areas Foundation. He eventually died of brain cancer. If you want to help with cancer research and care go to the www.cancer.org site.
19. Go past the front door with the eagle on top and the large planter boxes (decipher the 1707 pictures and lettering on the planter boxes if you can), and go around far side (west) of house toward the back.
20. OK. BigM#2 – the View! If your overlooking the Long Island Sound and the Fresh Water Pond you’ve made the right choices so far. Nice backyard! That’s Norwalk, Connecticut across the sound. Take in the view and trek down the hill to the left half of the Fresh Water Pond.
21. You’ll find a path at edge of pond. Turn left and follow the path past a “No” sign (two signs if its winter). Have you passed a line of rocks in the pond? The reflection of trees in the pond is a good picture.
22. You’ll leave the pond and re-enter the woods. Have you passed an old concrete foundation to a missing building? If your near Post #10 your starting to get warm.
23. Another cross roads and you’re not going to take any of the roads! There will be an open field if you continue going in the same direction that you went through the woods. You’ll be welcomed to the open field by a short, two-armed tree with no head.
24. Can you see a radio tower mast along the tops of the treeline ahead of you? That’s where your headed across the middle of the open field. Don’t take the trail that veers to the right along the right side of the field or you’ll end up at the sea. I imagine you should check for ticks after leaving the field in summer.
25. You’ll be on a dirt trail now, passing a long thick fallen tree on your right. Take deeps breaths as you wind your way uphill. The path narrows. Near the top on your right you’ll find the radio tower and two towering five-story steel mushrooms with four legs each.
26. Head for the towers and then leave the trail right before you reach the towers. The treasure you seek is in line with the two southern legs of the north tower (tower on your right) and even with the radio tower, five steps east of the fenceline. BEWARE: This spot is almost completely protected by thorny red and green guards, but there is a free and clear path if your careful. Pretend the thorns are poisonous to keep safe, but they’re not.
27. At this spot you’ll find an unnatural white rock. You will find a slotted entrance on one side and your treasure lies beneath! Congratulations – YOU’VE MADE IT! Stamp, sign, and leave a message of love. Improvements to our directions – leave those too. Be sure to seal the letterbox tightly and don't crush box with "rock".
28. Exiting. Luckily the trip home is simpler and shorter. Go back to the trail you left and continue past the towers. Make a left on the path and head away from, and inline with, the two mushroom towers, south for ¼ mile (that’s once around a high school running track), until you find yourself back on the paved pathway.
29. Continue south on Main Drive and you’ll see that you are 1 mile from main parking lot (that’s where you parked your horse). In a little more than ½ mile make a right at the cross roads (and follow) signs and you’ll return from where you started.