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Mount Sequoyah LbNA #6345 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Cock o' the Trail
Plant date:Oct 26, 2003
Location:
City:Fayetteville
County:Washington
State:Arkansas
Boxes:1
Found by: Dizzy
Last found:Apr 13, 2011
Status:FFFaaaFaOFa
Last edited:Oct 26, 2003
(Replaced in a new spot 12-07-06 and confirmed in place 4-15-09, after several reported failures to find.)(Several unsuccessful attempts have been reported in 2010. Unfortunately, Cock o' the Trail lives at some distance - New York State - and has no way of confirming that the box is still there, except via a reported find. It has been a difficult find! However, I plan to visit my sister in Fayetteville in December 2010.)
(I DID VISIT, and on Dec. 3 found it just where it had been left on the dates noted above. SO, THE CLUES HAVE BEEN SLIGHTLY RESTATED to make it easier to find.)

The Mount Sequoyah Conference and Retreat Center is located on the highest (~1700 ft.) of the seven hills that the City of Fayetteville occupies. It's a regional institution of the United Methodist Church but welcomes non-profit groups and families on a non-denominational basis for seminars and retreats that encourage personal enrichment. Established in 1922 on 30 acres atop what had been called East Hill, the grounds were renamed in honor of the famed Cherokee educator who created in the Indian Territory - now Oklahoma - the Cherokee language alphabet of 86 symbols in 1821.

Access to the hill is attained on Assembly Road, lying half way (0.6 mile) between US 71B and Old Wire Road on AR 45. It is also 0.6 mile up that narrow, winding street to Skyline Drive - the 0.9-mile long circuit of the Conference Center grounds, which is worth the drive-around. The main entrance is at that junction, and a most convenient parking area is found near the Bailey Center. Please bear in mind that this is private property and, if you're not officially a paying guest, your brief visit to this beautiful campus is at the sufferance of the Center. Please conduct yourself accordingly.

You will naturally be drawn to the bell-tower, from which you may walk NW across the grounds to the Bailey Center entrance road where a handsome split-rail fence goes off to the right along the road. But don't follow that, as per the original clues. Instead, cross the road and follow the curving lane up the hill toward a circle of named cottages. At roughly 110 steps past the split-rail fence, near the top of the hill, look for the well-ventilated structure seen at 240 degrees between "Louisiana" and "Oklahoma". Go to it, and stand inside near its center, facing the entrance and looking up at the inscription "GDR 121809066". Does that give you a clue? No, huh . . . !?
Well then, crane your neck back to a 320-degree compass heading, where a large tree stands close by and visualize a mini-box BENEATH. I say "visualize" because you may have to reach and feel for it rather than see it. Got it? . . . good for you!