Yuma Prison LbNA #: 7536
CluesWalk difficulty: short and easy
Stamp hand-carved
Status: alive and well on April 19, 2009
The box is in Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park in Yuma. From I-8 take Exit 1 to Giss Parkway. Follow brown signs to Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park. Park in the lot at end of entrance road.
From the parking lot, walk down hill on the trail to the prison cemetery. Continue on the trail that goes along the south side and outside of the cemetery and go down to the grassy picnic area with ramada #14 in it. Look for three tall Palm Trees growing from the same spot; they are on the edge of the parking lot and grassy area. From those trees, go at about 190 degrees (from mag. north) for about 55 steps to the western most tree in a row of three Palo Verde Trees. From the west side of that tree, go at about 284 degrees for about 8 steps to a large pointed nearly vertical rock. The box is under the west side of this rock covered with some rocks and plant debris. The box site is very visible and public; so please be very discreet when retrieving and rehiding the box.
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). Please rehide the box well under the rocks and plant debris so that it can not be seen from any direction.
Enjoy the view of the Colorado River. If you have time, visit the interesting old prison and museum.
Contact me if the box needs attention: http://home.att.net/~azroadie/letterboxing.html
This box is in my “Colorado River Series”. The other one in the series is “Laughlin Carp” (NV).
This box is in my “I-8 Series”. The others in the series are: “Freeman” and "Mohawk".
This box is in my "Historic U. S. Highway 80 Series". The others in the series are: "Bisbee Pass" and "Mohawk".
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/ .
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