GO and Search the Galaxy! - Hercules LbNA #61816 (ARCHIVED)

This letterbox - or observation point, as we call them - is part of the 2012 GO and Search the Galaxy! program, and is available from June 1, 2012 - August 19, 2012. Information about the program may be found at www.goyork.org. To participate in the full program, please pick up your free Star Guide (program guide) from any York County Library.

This letterbox is located in P. Joseph Raab County Park. It is 1.10 miles in distance and is rated "hard" by GO York standards.

 Start at Hoff Road Parking Lot.
 Follow trail #1 through the woods and cross over the field to the woods on the left side.
 Follow the forest on the left side of the field staying on trail #1. Look for woodpecker holes in the trees as you hike.
 Pass the 1st trail on your left and continue to trail #2. Turn left onto trail #2. As you hike on this trail, look for places animals may use as shelter such as a brush pile.
 Turn onto the first trail on your right. Stop and look down into the largest open pit of the York Iron Mine Company.
 Continue on this trail down the rocky hill.
 At the bottom of the hill, turn left onto trail #1.
 Follow trail #1 to the post located at the largest mine opening. What animals might you this mine for hibernating during winter?
 After the post, follow trail #1 back to the parking lot.