Crab Meadow Beach LbNA #58919
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jul 27, 2011 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Northport |
| County: | Suffolk |
| State: | New York |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Planted by: | BalanceSaidTheCat  |
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| Found by: | mdr |
| Last found: | Feb 20, 2012 |
| Status: | FFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Jul 27, 2011 |
Crab Meadow Beach
This is a DESTINATION letterbox hunt. Come for the day!
2 box series: The Treasure Chest Letter Box and The Beachcomber Letter Box
The Matinecock Indians, a peaceful tribe, roamed the area now known as Crab Meadow Beach. In the 1600s three Englishmen purchased the area from Chief Asharoken, who received 7 quarts of liquor, 2 coats, 4 shirts, and 11 ounces of gunpowder for the rights to the land. Families settled the area and thrived by farming and shell-fishing.
Crab Meadow is actually a salt marsh where saltmarsh cordgrass, sea lavender, glassworts, beach plums, and salt horn grow. Ducks, muskrats, piping plovers, egrets, ospreys, raccoons, rails, gulls, ribbed mussels, fiddler crabs, diamondback terrapins, herons, eastern melampus (a snail with a lung that can hold its breath), marsh wrens, and yellowlegs live here. A Field Guide to Long Island’s Seashore, produced by Stony Brook University, will tell you more.
In 1937, the Works Progress Administration constructed Spanish-style arches as a sound-front breezeway during the Great Depression. A restaurant, La Casa Café resides next to them.
Crab Meadow Beach is well appointed. Besides the restaurant there is a refreshment window, playground, volleyball nets, a roofed barbeque area, rest rooms, and a covered board walk.
Hours are sunrise to sunset. $30.00 to enter until AFTER 6PM, unless you have a Town of Huntington sticker, and if you dine at La Casa, the parking and subsequent beach access are FREE.
OFF-SEASON is Labor Day through Memorial Day, still a great time to come to this beautiful beach.
1. The Treasure Chest Letter Box
Beach pirates have hidden treasure here. Park and step onto the boardwalk. Breathe in the sea and soak in the view. Walk to the western pavilion at the end of the boardwalk. Sit on the bench and look for the shower lamp. Across from it at the end of a broken board is a post. Was it broken as it was pried up by pirates? Reach under the boardwalk under the post to find the treasure.
2. The Beachcomber Letter Box
This box requires a “short stretch of the legs.” You may want to drive over on a hot day. Find the southeastern pavilion separate from the beach. Enter, and then follow the sandy trail to the gap in the bank, above water’s edge. Turn right to see cedar and deciduous trees that have each other’s back. The box waits against the trunk of the cedar tree.
I hope you come to Crab Meadow to dine (portions are large), and wade to the sand bars that surface at low tide. The water turns silver at sunset.
This is a DESTINATION letterbox hunt. Come for the day!
2 box series: The Treasure Chest Letter Box and The Beachcomber Letter Box
The Matinecock Indians, a peaceful tribe, roamed the area now known as Crab Meadow Beach. In the 1600s three Englishmen purchased the area from Chief Asharoken, who received 7 quarts of liquor, 2 coats, 4 shirts, and 11 ounces of gunpowder for the rights to the land. Families settled the area and thrived by farming and shell-fishing.
Crab Meadow is actually a salt marsh where saltmarsh cordgrass, sea lavender, glassworts, beach plums, and salt horn grow. Ducks, muskrats, piping plovers, egrets, ospreys, raccoons, rails, gulls, ribbed mussels, fiddler crabs, diamondback terrapins, herons, eastern melampus (a snail with a lung that can hold its breath), marsh wrens, and yellowlegs live here. A Field Guide to Long Island’s Seashore, produced by Stony Brook University, will tell you more.
In 1937, the Works Progress Administration constructed Spanish-style arches as a sound-front breezeway during the Great Depression. A restaurant, La Casa Café resides next to them.
Crab Meadow Beach is well appointed. Besides the restaurant there is a refreshment window, playground, volleyball nets, a roofed barbeque area, rest rooms, and a covered board walk.
Hours are sunrise to sunset. $30.00 to enter until AFTER 6PM, unless you have a Town of Huntington sticker, and if you dine at La Casa, the parking and subsequent beach access are FREE.
OFF-SEASON is Labor Day through Memorial Day, still a great time to come to this beautiful beach.
1. The Treasure Chest Letter Box
Beach pirates have hidden treasure here. Park and step onto the boardwalk. Breathe in the sea and soak in the view. Walk to the western pavilion at the end of the boardwalk. Sit on the bench and look for the shower lamp. Across from it at the end of a broken board is a post. Was it broken as it was pried up by pirates? Reach under the boardwalk under the post to find the treasure.
2. The Beachcomber Letter Box
This box requires a “short stretch of the legs.” You may want to drive over on a hot day. Find the southeastern pavilion separate from the beach. Enter, and then follow the sandy trail to the gap in the bank, above water’s edge. Turn right to see cedar and deciduous trees that have each other’s back. The box waits against the trunk of the cedar tree.
I hope you come to Crab Meadow to dine (portions are large), and wade to the sand bars that surface at low tide. The water turns silver at sunset.