The Kickoff LbNA #70929
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Dec 17, 2016 |
| Location: | Mine Hill Preserve |
| City: | Roxbury |
| County: | Litchfield |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 3 |
| Planted by: | Happy Feet Explorers  |
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| Found by: | Hez, Grumpy and Mona |
| Last found: | Jul 30, 2018 |
| Status: | F |
| Last edited: | Feb 15, 2017 |
The Mine Hill Preserve is a beautiful area in The Roxbury Land Trust. It provides great hiking opportunities mixed with history. Take the time to check out the buildings and read about what life in the area used to be like. We found the trail to be kid-friendly with a 10yo and 11yo. You can also look for boxes hidden by Eagle & Teapot titled The Owl of Roxbury, which is what brought us to this park and inspired us to hide our boxes.
Directions:
Take Route 67 North. Turn Right on Mine Hill Road (Roxbury Station). Follow Mine Hill Road and it will turn into a dirt road. Continue about .02 miles to the park entrance on the right.
Clues:
Take the trail from the parking area down over a foot bridge to the trail sign in front of you. Turn left toward the Donkey Trail. Pass the Wilbur R. Shook rock and you will be on the blue blazed trail. Continue on the blue blazed trail for a short distance. You will pass two carved trees on the right. On the trail you will then pass through a single tree on the right and a two sister tree on the left. Immediately ahead of you on the trail there will be a blue blazed two sister tree on the left and a two sister blue blazed tree on the right. On the trail, stand between the two blue blazed trees and exit the trail down to the right. Within the stone wall you will find box number one beneath the second blue blazed tree.
Continue on the blue blazed trail and pass the Nature Trail and pond on the right. Continue straight on the blue blazed trail. Pass the other blue blaze trail on the right but continue walking straight. Walk for a short distance until you come to a tree with a blue blaze trail marker on the right and a large white rock on the left. Look up to the left to the tree with another white rock at the base. You will find the second box in the hollowed out stump in front of this tree. Be sure to hide the box well.
Continue walking through where the trail is raised and after an uphill through pines you will come to a small open area with a five foot high concrete tunnel on the left. Stand in the trail with the tunnel behind you. You will see a three sister tree ahead of you across the trail. Under that tree’s exposed roots in the back, you will find box number three. Be sure to hide the box well.
Good luck and we’d love to know if you found the boxes.
Hike length: 1-2 miles
Directions:
Take Route 67 North. Turn Right on Mine Hill Road (Roxbury Station). Follow Mine Hill Road and it will turn into a dirt road. Continue about .02 miles to the park entrance on the right.
Clues:
Take the trail from the parking area down over a foot bridge to the trail sign in front of you. Turn left toward the Donkey Trail. Pass the Wilbur R. Shook rock and you will be on the blue blazed trail. Continue on the blue blazed trail for a short distance. You will pass two carved trees on the right. On the trail you will then pass through a single tree on the right and a two sister tree on the left. Immediately ahead of you on the trail there will be a blue blazed two sister tree on the left and a two sister blue blazed tree on the right. On the trail, stand between the two blue blazed trees and exit the trail down to the right. Within the stone wall you will find box number one beneath the second blue blazed tree.
Continue on the blue blazed trail and pass the Nature Trail and pond on the right. Continue straight on the blue blazed trail. Pass the other blue blaze trail on the right but continue walking straight. Walk for a short distance until you come to a tree with a blue blaze trail marker on the right and a large white rock on the left. Look up to the left to the tree with another white rock at the base. You will find the second box in the hollowed out stump in front of this tree. Be sure to hide the box well.
Continue walking through where the trail is raised and after an uphill through pines you will come to a small open area with a five foot high concrete tunnel on the left. Stand in the trail with the tunnel behind you. You will see a three sister tree ahead of you across the trail. Under that tree’s exposed roots in the back, you will find box number three. Be sure to hide the box well.
Good luck and we’d love to know if you found the boxes.
Hike length: 1-2 miles