Letterboxing is an intriguing “treasure hunt” style outdoor activity. Letterboxers hide small, weatherproof boxes in publicly-accessible places (like parks) and post clues to finding the box online on one of several Web sites. However, clues to finding some of the most highly-sought boxes are passed around by word of mouth.

There are about 60,000 active letterboxes listed on LbNA alone. Individual letterboxes usually contain a log book, an often hand-carved rubber stamp and occasionally contain an ink pad. Finders make an imprint of the letterbox’s stamp on their personal log book, and leave an imprint of their personal stamp on the letterbox’s logbook.

1. Troop 6935 Melissa, TX
2. Santa Monica Brew Works Santa Monica, CA
3. June Cleaver Santa Monica, CA
4. Backbone Trail Agoura Hills, CA
5. Planet Of The Apes Beach Malibu, CA
6. Will Rogers Ranch Pacific Palisades, CA
7. It's a Birds Life Harwinton, CT (2)
8. Egyptian Power Stamps Oakland, NJ (11)
9. An American Comes to Richmond Richmond, London, UK, INT, INT
10. Bespin Felicity, CA
11. GS Troop 4 St Louis, MO
12. Troop 18999 Blaine, MN

More new letterboxes

1. Plum Creek Bridge Luling, TX
2. Madara (nyanko-sensei) Big Bear, CA
3. Riding Kev Glastonbury, CT
4. Pushing Up Daisies #94 Glastonbury, CT
5. The bridges of Steven's Glen West Stockbridge, MA
6. NIMROD Series Kernville, CA (2/4)
7. What Does the Fox Say? (Formerly known as Elephant Zap) Angelus Oaks, CA
8. Boron UrbEx Mission Boron, CA
9. Sikorsky Memorial Airport Corsair Stratford, CT
10. RIDDLES IN THE DARK - the third Stratford, CT
11. Farmer Tuthill Middlefield, CT
12. Heron and Friends at Heron Pond Essex, CT (2/4)

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