GO and Search the Galaxy! - Ursa Major LbNA #61837 (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 Gifford Pinchot State park and may be accessed from the Quaker Race Day Use Area. It is 0.50 miles in distance and is rated "moderate" by GO York standards.

 Start at the northern side of the parking area and walk over a wooden bridge to get on Lakeside Trail, near some picnic tables and old oak trees
 Follow the signs for Lakeside Trail – make sure the lake always stays on your right as you are walking slightly north
 At the tree with multiple trunks that looks like a "V", stay to the right
 Look for a pavilion up in the wooded area to the left and continue on the trail in front of you
 Keep on the trail in this area – poison ivy and other critters would like to get you!
 Look for a brown post - "25" Lakeside Trail - with some blue flagging on it and stay straight
 Make your way through some mud and over a black, cylindrical culvert in the trail - look for blue flagging to your right
 You will come to a fork in the trail just before the open field; stay to the left and look along the trail line to your left for the observation point