Grimes Field LbNA #8108 (ARCHIVED)

Planted by Butterbaby and rtrw
April 19th – my one year anniversary of letterboxing

Find your way to Main Street in Hillsboro, NH. This used to be Routes 202 & 9, but now the bypass has thrown off my ability to give directions. Turn onto Preston Street near Caron's Restaurant. Grimes field is on the left.

Details you need to know: There is a great balloon festival at this field in Hillsboro each summer. The date for 2003 is July 10-13. A web site you can check is http://www.balloonfestival.org/roadrace.html
There is also a playground for the little ones. Actually, you probably don’t need to know this, but it’s interesting.

Details you don’t need to know:
rtrw (back when I was just rtr) spent many hours standing in right field staring through tiny holes in my baseball glove to keep the blackflies away from my face. There is nothing like NH in the spring. And yes, that’s right field. That just how good a softball player I was.

Clues:
As you come to the field you want to go to the far right side near the tennis courts. On your way in you pass an old cemetery that is worth checking out. No letterboxes here, but it's still neat. Find a spot to park and head down a dirt road. Walk all the way to the river and look left for the nature trail and it’s sign.
Follow the path along the river until you can see the culvert on the opposite bank. The day we planted you could see light on the other side. You will see some sliced phone pole trail markers along your way. Some have numbers and some are too mossy to read.
With your back facing the culvert (that phrase makes no sense at all) walk 23 steps to the large 4 trunked tree then 10 steps left. The letterbox is hidden under a stump and a fallen log. Enjoy the stroll and check out other local boxes if you have the time.


Lots of people have emailed to say the box is gone (even a famous Connecticut letterboxer who doesn't think she's famous) and then I received a note from the NH puma that the box is right where it's supposed to be. Here is part of the message.

"As far as finding it maybe people were taking
the nature walk instead of the trail along the river?
or maybe they were confused by the culverts? I think
they just replaced some last year. Yours is the last
of three and the only one you can see light through.
Also the stump is there but no log, just some chunks
of rotting wood."

Hope it helps, and I do plan to get up there to adjust it sometime this summer. May 3, 2004