Adirondack Letter Series: Letter "N" LbNA #35183
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Sep 15, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Long Lake |
| County: | Hamilton |
| State: | New York |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Wyvern  |
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| Found by: | a loco kittens |
| Last found: | Sep 12, 2009 |
| Status: | FFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Sep 15, 2007 |
This box is in series with the ADK Letters and if you find all the letters (scattered throughout the Adirondack Park), you should be able to spell the word “Adirondack”. This box was planted by Wyvern but the stamp was carved by Lock Wench. This lovely little piece of art deserves a lot of visitors!
The box is placed along the Upper Sargent Pond Trail not too far from Buttermilk Falls in Long Lake, NY. While in the area, I highly suggest seeing the Blue Mountain Lake Adirondack Museum, Hoss’ Country Store, Buttermilk Falls, and The Wild Center in Tupper Lake. Eat lunch at the Long Lake Diner or the Adirondack Hotel. And naturally, enjoy the hikes of the many letterboxes around these parts. (But they can always use a few more!)
Driving Directions:
From the Village of Long Lake, take NYS route 28/30 south. This is a right turn at the corner with Hoss’ Country Store. Follow the road for 3 miles to North Point Road (Hamilton County Route 3). Watch for a road sign that says “Buttermilk Falls”. It comes up on the right in the middle of a bend in the road. (This point is 7.7 miles north of the hamlet of Blue Mountain Lake). Turn right (west) onto North Point Road, and follow it for 2.1 miles.
This brings you to Buttermilk Falls parking area on the side of the road. It is usually quite busy in the summer months but it is a wonderful waterfall. It also has a picnic area. But the Letter “N” isn’t here. Keep driving.
Continue on North Point Rd and you’ll pass Forked Lake Campsite Road on your right. Continue from here another 3 miles and the trailhead will come up on your LEFT. It is just over a small hill and bend in the road. The trailhead is marked with a brown and yellow DEC sign typically found in the Adirondack Park. It has Upper Sargent Pond listed first as a 1.3 mile hike.
You can park your car on the side of the road where there is a large sandy patch.
CLUES:
Your walk will not be far perhaps 15 minutes round trip. Just up the trail on the left is the trail register. Sign in here, if you desire. (It’s always a good idea.) You will notice a lovely little creek on your right. A short walk up the trail and you will cross a feeder stream to this creek. Here is the beginning of a sloping incline. Just about 10 feet up the incline you will have to step on/over/around a large rock in the trail. (larger than any other ones you’ve seen thus far) You can still hear and see the creek on your right. Look to your right at the nearby trees and you’ll see one that is really a stump, broken off after about 15 feet. It’s a reminder of a microburst that drove through this area in 1995. It has light curly bark and is covered in black fungus. It has a nice hidey hole of a root, in fact, you can see right through the root on its left side. Remember the look of this stump because its twin is further up over the hill.
After the incline, the trail flattens out and turns into what appears to be a dried out creek bed. You’ll step up a small stone step and look for a skinny tree on the left marked on both sides with red, round trail markers. Just up the trail from this tree, on the left, start searching for that remarkable twin stump. It’s 15 feet high, with light curly bark and lots of black fungus. The Letter “N” is behind this stump in a small niche covered with forest debris.
After stamping in, please replace it to its hiding spot and cover it with forest debris so that it is not visible.
Hope you enjoyed the walk!
The box is placed along the Upper Sargent Pond Trail not too far from Buttermilk Falls in Long Lake, NY. While in the area, I highly suggest seeing the Blue Mountain Lake Adirondack Museum, Hoss’ Country Store, Buttermilk Falls, and The Wild Center in Tupper Lake. Eat lunch at the Long Lake Diner or the Adirondack Hotel. And naturally, enjoy the hikes of the many letterboxes around these parts. (But they can always use a few more!)
Driving Directions:
From the Village of Long Lake, take NYS route 28/30 south. This is a right turn at the corner with Hoss’ Country Store. Follow the road for 3 miles to North Point Road (Hamilton County Route 3). Watch for a road sign that says “Buttermilk Falls”. It comes up on the right in the middle of a bend in the road. (This point is 7.7 miles north of the hamlet of Blue Mountain Lake). Turn right (west) onto North Point Road, and follow it for 2.1 miles.
This brings you to Buttermilk Falls parking area on the side of the road. It is usually quite busy in the summer months but it is a wonderful waterfall. It also has a picnic area. But the Letter “N” isn’t here. Keep driving.
Continue on North Point Rd and you’ll pass Forked Lake Campsite Road on your right. Continue from here another 3 miles and the trailhead will come up on your LEFT. It is just over a small hill and bend in the road. The trailhead is marked with a brown and yellow DEC sign typically found in the Adirondack Park. It has Upper Sargent Pond listed first as a 1.3 mile hike.
You can park your car on the side of the road where there is a large sandy patch.
CLUES:
Your walk will not be far perhaps 15 minutes round trip. Just up the trail on the left is the trail register. Sign in here, if you desire. (It’s always a good idea.) You will notice a lovely little creek on your right. A short walk up the trail and you will cross a feeder stream to this creek. Here is the beginning of a sloping incline. Just about 10 feet up the incline you will have to step on/over/around a large rock in the trail. (larger than any other ones you’ve seen thus far) You can still hear and see the creek on your right. Look to your right at the nearby trees and you’ll see one that is really a stump, broken off after about 15 feet. It’s a reminder of a microburst that drove through this area in 1995. It has light curly bark and is covered in black fungus. It has a nice hidey hole of a root, in fact, you can see right through the root on its left side. Remember the look of this stump because its twin is further up over the hill.
After the incline, the trail flattens out and turns into what appears to be a dried out creek bed. You’ll step up a small stone step and look for a skinny tree on the left marked on both sides with red, round trail markers. Just up the trail from this tree, on the left, start searching for that remarkable twin stump. It’s 15 feet high, with light curly bark and lots of black fungus. The Letter “N” is behind this stump in a small niche covered with forest debris.
After stamping in, please replace it to its hiding spot and cover it with forest debris so that it is not visible.
Hope you enjoyed the walk!