Historic Highway 666 LbNA #68691
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Add Location| Owner: | Azroadie  |
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| Plant date: | May 25, 2015 |
| Location: | U S Highway 191 |
| City: | Clifton |
| County: | Greenlee |
| State: | Arizona |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Baqash |
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| Last found: | Dec 11, 2020 |
| Status: | FFFFF |
| Last edited: | Feb 10, 2017 |
Trail difficulty: easy
Walk distance: about 0.1 mile one way
Stamp hand-made
Status: alive and well on February 7, 2017
This letterbox is placed along historic U. S. Highway 666. The highway was established in 1926 and at its longest configuration it extended from Douglas, AZ, to Monticello, UT. The very superstitious and fanatical religious people called it the “Devil’s Highway” or the “Beast of a Highway” because of the same number as the “number of the beast” in the book of Revelations. They claimed to have avoided this highway because they thought it was cursed or unlucky! Because of intents outcry and pressure from these people, by 2003 the highway was given new route numbers. In Arizona it was designated U. S. 191.
Traveling on U. S. Highway 191 southeast of Clifton (and southwest of Three Way), go to mile marker 147 and park in the gravel pullout on the west side of the highway.
Walk through the gate (and be sure to close it because there are cattle in the area) and walk up to a dirt road (this is old U. S. Highway 666). Turn left (south) on the dirt road. Walk a short distance to a group of four Mesquite Trees in a line on the right side of the dirt road. Go to the tallest tree. The box is under the backside of the tree under a flat rock covered with some plant debris.
Please please be sure the contents are double ziplocked when you put them back in the box (i.e. the stamp is in a ziploc, the book is in a ziploc, and the two are in the larger ziploc bag) and put all of it INSIDE the box. Please rehide the box well under the rock and covered with some twigs and plant debris so that it can not be seen from any direction.
Contact me if the box needs attention:
http://nostalgia.esmartkid.com/azroadie.html
Please record your find at www.letterboxing.org/ or at www.atlasquest.com/ .
If you live in Arizona or New Mexico or have an interest in letterboxes in those states, you are invited to join the Letterboxing Southwest Discussion Group. Go here to join: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LetterboxingSouthwest/ .
Walk distance: about 0.1 mile one way
Stamp hand-made
Status: alive and well on February 7, 2017
This letterbox is placed along historic U. S. Highway 666. The highway was established in 1926 and at its longest configuration it extended from Douglas, AZ, to Monticello, UT. The very superstitious and fanatical religious people called it the “Devil’s Highway” or the “Beast of a Highway” because of the same number as the “number of the beast” in the book of Revelations. They claimed to have avoided this highway because they thought it was cursed or unlucky! Because of intents outcry and pressure from these people, by 2003 the highway was given new route numbers. In Arizona it was designated U. S. 191.
Traveling on U. S. Highway 191 southeast of Clifton (and southwest of Three Way), go to mile marker 147 and park in the gravel pullout on the west side of the highway.
Walk through the gate (and be sure to close it because there are cattle in the area) and walk up to a dirt road (this is old U. S. Highway 666). Turn left (south) on the dirt road. Walk a short distance to a group of four Mesquite Trees in a line on the right side of the dirt road. Go to the tallest tree. The box is under the backside of the tree under a flat rock covered with some plant debris.
Please please be sure the contents are double ziplocked when you put them back in the box (i.e. the stamp is in a ziploc, the book is in a ziploc, and the two are in the larger ziploc bag) and put all of it INSIDE the box. Please rehide the box well under the rock and covered with some twigs and plant debris so that it can not be seen from any direction.
Contact me if the box needs attention:
http://nostalgia.esmartkid.com/azroadie.html
Please record your find at www.letterboxing.org/ or at www.atlasquest.com/ .
If you live in Arizona or New Mexico or have an interest in letterboxes in those states, you are invited to join the Letterboxing Southwest Discussion Group. Go here to join: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LetterboxingSouthwest/ .