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About Letterboxing

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.

Letterboxer stamping into their logbook

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Most Recently Found

  1. Justice League Naugatuck, CT (2/5)
  2. Seven Dwarfs Save The Princess East Haddam, CT (1/8)
  3. Cemetery Denizen's Oxford Oxford/Southford, CT
  4. Lady Bugs oxford, CT
  5. The Fox Oxford, CT
  6. I'm Not Lost, I Just Don't Know Where I Am Berlin, CT
  7. Mark Pepe=Chopped Liver Kensington/Southington, CT
  8. Wait One Minute Kensington/Southington, CT
  9. Mexican Tiles ???, CT (3/4)
  10. <3 October Hamden, CT (2/7)
  11. A Pogo Holiday Hamden, CT (7/8)
  12. Greek God/Goddess Series #3: Hades Hamden, CT

Tip of the Day

The search results were tweaked 7-Aug-15 to show the last status on the search results. This is a little controversial, but my sense is that there are more people that want to know this than not.

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Fall Foliage, Shenandoah National Park, VA - photo by Silver Eagle