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GO and Search the Galaxy! - Star LbNA #61831 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jun 1, 2012
Location: Heritage Rail Trail - New Freedom
City:New Freedom
County:York
State:Pennsylvania
Boxes:1
Planted by:GoYork Kids
Found by: smithinvasion
Last found:Aug 16, 2012
Status:Fr
Last edited:Jun 1, 2012
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 along the York County Heritage Rail Trail and may be accessed from the New Freedom parking area. It is 1.84 miles in distance and is rated "hard" by GO York standards.

 With your back to the porch of the yellow station, facing the train tracks, north is to your left. Head north away from Franklin Street.
 As you begin, the red trains will be on your left. You may pause between the sweet gums to read the sign and see what this railroad was used for.
 Pass the yellow railroad crossing sign on your left, and then two red track switches on the tracks on your right.
 Pass the black and white “W” sign on your left, which tells the incoming trains when to blow their whistle.
 The trail crosses the railroad and becomes forest on the right and the tracks on your left.
 Pass an old school bus on your left and the stream on your right.
 Stop at the red gate, and look left and right before crossing. You will notice the stream on your left now.
 Continue past the 2-mile marker, in a grove of Sassafras trees and staghorn sumac, on your right.
 After passing another whistle sign, look for big fuzzy poison ivy vines on tree trunks on the right for the next 50 paces. See if you can spot their “leaves of three”.
 You will notice that the stream is now very close to the trail.
 Pass a black metal signal tower and continue until you reach some benches on the right. The observation point you seek is near several huge white oak trees with bright white bark.