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Preserve the Reserve LbNA #63013

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Sep 1, 2012
Location: Awosting Reserve
City:Gardiner
County:Ulster
State:New York
Boxes:1
Planted by:Spottycat
Found by: Not yet found!
Last found:N/A
Status:a
Last edited:Sep 1, 2012
Thanks to a long and involved effort the Trust for Public Land and OSI acquired 2,500 acres of the Awosting Reserve in 2006. The stamps in this box represent the past and future of the Reserve. Sometimes on spring and summer evenings tiny singers can be heard around a pond here. The future stamper represents one of them. When you search for the box they may be hidden in the trees overhead. If you stay into the evening in the springtime you may hear them singing.

Difficulty: A hike of more than a mile in each direction on a carriage road with several hundred feet of climbing.

Driving Directions: From Pine Bush take Rt. 52 toward Walker Valley and turn right onto New Prospect road. Follow this road past the Colonial Inn on the right. Turn left onto Awosting Road at the T when the road turns right. Go past the Hoot Owl and turn right onto Decker Road, then left onto Aumick Road. Aumick makes a right-angle turn to the right at a stop sign. After passing a stream on the right, a parking area appears on the left after a small stone structure with trees growing up through it. Please do not block the gate.

From New Paltz cross the bridge at the end of Main Street and take 299 West out of town. Turn left onto 44/55 by the Mountain Brauhaus. Turn right onto County Road 7 just before Lombardi's. Turn right onto Tilson Lake Road and go straight through the intersection with Rutsonville Road onto Decker Road. Turn right onto Lake Road, then left onto Aumick Road. After a tight s-curve, a parking area appears on the right. Please do not block the gate.

Clue: Go past the gate and up the carriage road with brown bar on white diamond blazes. The road follows a number of switchbacks on its way uphill. The first few switchbacks can be bypassed by unofficial trails. Ignore a side road to the left. After about a mile you'll pass a number of telephone poles and reach a large clearing with a small pond on the right. Go downhill to the left of the pond and up the hill on the far side. Balanced stones on the other side should guide your way. Circle the pond clockwise into the trees. Find the biggest boulder in a large group of boulders. A cairn on top will point the way to a hollow tree (160° magnetic). The large hollow should be covered by a flat rock. Inside you will find the box under another rock. There are two stampers and two ink pads inside. Please replace everything as it was after stamping in.

Further Hiking: Continuing up the carriage road beyond the clearing you will come to a purple-blazed carriage road loop. Staying straight will lead to a mostly-level carriageway that leads to the Dwaarkill where the loop continues uphill to the right past a yellow bar on white diamond blazed trail toward Mud Pond. Continuing straight will take you to Lake Awosting.

Turning right on the purple-blazed carriage road after the clearing will take you rapidly uphill and around to a T with the unmarked trail toward Lake Awosting. Turning right will take you to Lake Awosting. Turning left at the T will take you down the Dwaarkill and past the yellow bar on white diamond blazed connector that goes toward Mud Pond then further around the loop.