Baldpate Key LbNA #69069
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Add Location| Owner: | Silver Eagle    |
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| Plant date: | Jul 27, 2015 |
| Location: | Baldpate Inn |
| City: | Estes Park |
| County: | Larimer |
| State: | Colorado |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Not yet found! |
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| Last found: | N/A |
| Last edited: | Jul 27, 2015 |
Terrain Difficulty: Easy (flat, 100 yards RT)
Status: alive
Located next to Rocky Mt National Park, Baldpate Inn has been enchanting visitors since 1917 with its restful accommodations, award-winning dining, and the intriguing world's largest key collection. The original owners, the Mace family, named the inn after the mystery novel "Seven Keys To Baldpate" by Earl Derr Biggers, in which each of seven visitors traveled to the hotel and thinks that they have the only key to the Inn. In keeping with the story line of the novel, the Mace family gave each visitor to the Inn their very own key until World War I, when the price of metal became too expensive. The loyal guests who returned yearly were so disappointed that they began their own tradition of bringing a key back to the inn with them each year. The competition between guests became so fierce to bring the best and most exotic key each year that the Maces decided to begin a display of all the keys. The collection boasts over 20,000 keys including examples from the Pentagon, Westminster Abby, Mozart’s wine cellar, Frankenstein’s castle and my own humble key.
Directions:
From Estes Park go south on CO 7 about 7 miles to Lily Lake on right, but turn left toward Twin Sisters Trail and immediate left on gravel road to Baldpate Inn.
Clues:
Walk up stairs to lobby and go right into the key room. Find the visitor logbook, which I am using as the logbook for this box, and sign in putting a LB with a circle around it at end so future letterboxers can quickly find your visit (you can find mine on the placement date of this box). Now find my key, which is acting as the stamp, in the Lone Star State section on the "conservative" side and trace it in your logbook. You can do this with some privacy in the next room which is a library. Be sure to hang the key back where it was and look around at the historic keys in cases along the walls.
Status: alive
Located next to Rocky Mt National Park, Baldpate Inn has been enchanting visitors since 1917 with its restful accommodations, award-winning dining, and the intriguing world's largest key collection. The original owners, the Mace family, named the inn after the mystery novel "Seven Keys To Baldpate" by Earl Derr Biggers, in which each of seven visitors traveled to the hotel and thinks that they have the only key to the Inn. In keeping with the story line of the novel, the Mace family gave each visitor to the Inn their very own key until World War I, when the price of metal became too expensive. The loyal guests who returned yearly were so disappointed that they began their own tradition of bringing a key back to the inn with them each year. The competition between guests became so fierce to bring the best and most exotic key each year that the Maces decided to begin a display of all the keys. The collection boasts over 20,000 keys including examples from the Pentagon, Westminster Abby, Mozart’s wine cellar, Frankenstein’s castle and my own humble key.
Directions:
From Estes Park go south on CO 7 about 7 miles to Lily Lake on right, but turn left toward Twin Sisters Trail and immediate left on gravel road to Baldpate Inn.
Clues:
Walk up stairs to lobby and go right into the key room. Find the visitor logbook, which I am using as the logbook for this box, and sign in putting a LB with a circle around it at end so future letterboxers can quickly find your visit (you can find mine on the placement date of this box). Now find my key, which is acting as the stamp, in the Lone Star State section on the "conservative" side and trace it in your logbook. You can do this with some privacy in the next room which is a library. Be sure to hang the key back where it was and look around at the historic keys in cases along the walls.