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Water Series LbNA #6816 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jan 1, 2004
Location:
City:Foxborough
County:Norfolk
State:Massachusetts
Boxes:3
Planted by:Amy & Jay
Found by: Mahatma Dondi
Last found:Mar 24, 2007
Status:FFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Jan 1, 2004
***FYI - Just found out (March '06) that the first box is there, but in bad shape. You can stamp in, but log is gone. Also, the second box's logbook is pretty much full. Will try to get out there the last week in March to fix it up. Glad these LBs are seeing a lot of use!!

The Water Series Letterboxes are located in F. Gilbert Hills State Forest in Foxborough. There are three letterboxes in the series, the clues are direct, and it will take you about 1.5-2 hours to complete the loop. I'm just estimating, but it is probably between 3-3.5 miles. Grab a trail map if you want, but you will not need it to complete this series. You will need a pen and a stamp pad, as not all the boxes have them.

DIRECTIONS:
Take 495 to exit 14A (Route 1 North). Take a RIGHT onto Thurston Street at the second set of lights. Follow Thurston Street about 1 to 2 miles and take a LEFT onto Mill Street. Follow Mill Street to the end. You will see the two red state forest buildings and some dirt parking areas. Park and walk to the trail head between the two red buildings.

CLUES:
You will see three white posts with red reflective tape on them marking the trail head. Pass through the posts and take the trail on the RIGHT. You will soon come to a small wooden bridge over a stream. Follow trail. It is marked with blue triangles. After a while, the trail will come out to a T.

Take a RIGHT onto this wider trail (looks like an old dirt road). Soon you will come to another T. There will be a wooden post that says ‘Tupelo’ and ‘Pinehill’. Go LEFT at this post (Tupelo direction). Follow this trail. You will come to a white pine and hemlock grove with lots of thorns on the left side of the trail. You will see a field and a house through the grove to the RIGHT (maybe not in summer with growth and leaves). After this you will come to a road, go LEFT through gate 14.

Stay on this wide trail. When you come to Water Hole 3, prepare to find the Waterview Letterbox. To the LEFT of Water Hole 3 is a stone wall. There is a clump of three boulders located between the Water Hole and the stone wall. The Letterbox is hidden among the boulders. Please hide carefully, place some sticks on top of leaves on top of letterbox, please!

After stamping in, continue on trail and you will see another post at a fork in the trail. Go LEFT. Stay on this main trail. Soon you will come to a T. Take a RIGHT at this T, then another RIGHT onto Rockwood Trail. You will pass Water Hole 12 and then 13. Again you will come to a T. Take a LEFT onto Highrock Trail. You will pass Water Hole 5.

Soon there will be a waterfall on your RIGHT. The microbox Waterdrop is located here. It is in a black film canister. Locate the pipe that the water flows through to get under the road (you will probably have to kneel down and lean over the water hole at the bottom of the waterfall). The microbox is located between the pipe and a rock. You should be able to find it easily, but a flashlight may help. Stamp in and re-hide, please!

Continue on Highrock Trail. At next intersection, take a LEFT onto Wolf Meadow Road (not marked like the others were, but there is a sign posted here…you can’t miss it). You will come to a swamp/pond on your RIGHT. After you pass the swamp, you will come to an intersection of trails, stay RIGHT on Wolf Meadow Rd. You will come to a fork at the bottom of the hill. Bear left here, staying on the wider trail. You will pass Water Hole 1. From here on in, you will come to two forks: at both forks, go RIGHT. This will lead you back to the parking lot.

Before the end of your walk, but after Water Hole 1, you will pass a small stream that travels under the road. On the left is the WaterLily Letterbox. Facing the stream on your left (before it goes under the road), you will see some trees on the right of the stream. The first tree has a root bridge, the second tree has a very knobby base, and the third tree is a small spruce. Between the knobby tree and the spruce is a rock. Against the rock is a dead tree trunk/large branch. The Letterbox is located under this tree trunk/large branch right where it meets the rock.

After stamping in, return to the road and continue. Remember to go RIGHT at any forks! This will lead you right back to the parking lot!!

Hoped you enjoy this journey through this beautiful state forest! Please let us know if you’ve found them by emailing us at jayandamy76@yahoo.com. Thanks!