Wye Island Letterboxes LbNA #4277
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Add Location| Owner: | Midnight Boxer
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| Plant date: | Nov 29, 2002 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Queenstown |
| County: | Queen Anne's |
| State: | Maryland |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Found by: | YankeeChiK |
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| Last found: | Aug 12, 2017 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFaFFFFFFFFFaFF |
| Last edited: | Nov 29, 2002 |
Box: Originally placed by ForestFrogFamily Nov. 2002.
Current status: Alive and well; clue updates added below.
replaced on the afternoon of 5/30/08
April 2008, Midnight Boxer
Sept 2011, All is well. Some of the sign posts are now missing, but these should be easy to find! Enjoy.
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Original, unedited clues:
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Location: Wye Island Natural Resource Management Area
Difficulty: Flat, approximately 1.5 mile round trip.
Directions: Travel east on Route 50 across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Travel 12.5 miles eastbound on Route 50 and turn right onto Carmichael Road. Travel 5.1 miles on Carmichael Road until you cross the Wye Island Bridge and continue south on Wye Island Road. About a half-mile past the park office, there is an information board on the right and the road turns to gravel. From this point, continue .8 miles to the Schoolhouse Woods Nature Trail parking area on the right.
Notes: Hunting is allowed on Wye Island on specific dates ... see the Wye Island website(http://www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/eastern/wyeisland.html) for details. Beware of thorns around both boxes ... we have tried to avoid taking you through thorny areas, but those buggers seem to crop up pretty fast!
Clues: Head out on the Schoolhouse Woods Nature Trail through an old growth forest, one of the largest existing on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Depending on the season, you may notice the rounded leaves of the Osage Orange trees, named for the Osage Indians. You will walk past numbered posts, and after post 4, be sure to follow the trail as it heads to the righthand edge of the forest ... there are no blazes here to help you, and post 5 is set back a bit from the trail. Soon after, you should find yourself walking along the bank of a creek to your right. Continue on the trail until you reach post 8, and approximately 56 paces further is an unmistakeably huge tree on your right. The Wye Island Osage letterbox rests against the backside of this tree, hidden behind small upright logs.
Continue on the trail past post 10, and cross an equestrian trail. Leave the nature trail by crossing the trio of footbridges on your right. Continue on this side path across a fourth footbridge, and onward to a serene spot by the water's edge. From the Fishing / No Fires sign, walk 7 paces at 10 degrees, where you should see a visible path into the woods on your right. Go 13 paces at 62 degrees, straight up to a tree. Finally, go 7 paces at 190 degrees to a large 2-in-1 tree. The Wye Island Cove letterbox is relaxing under bark on the backside of this tree. After stamping, spend some time enjoying the view in this perfect picnic spot.
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April 2008 notes/updates:
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(0) Box #2 has been lost to letterboxing history. It is still very much worth the extra 5mins to hike to its old location (very serene and scenic).
Current status: Alive and well; clue updates added below.
replaced on the afternoon of 5/30/08
April 2008, Midnight Boxer
Sept 2011, All is well. Some of the sign posts are now missing, but these should be easy to find! Enjoy.
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Original, unedited clues:
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Location: Wye Island Natural Resource Management Area
Difficulty: Flat, approximately 1.5 mile round trip.
Directions: Travel east on Route 50 across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Travel 12.5 miles eastbound on Route 50 and turn right onto Carmichael Road. Travel 5.1 miles on Carmichael Road until you cross the Wye Island Bridge and continue south on Wye Island Road. About a half-mile past the park office, there is an information board on the right and the road turns to gravel. From this point, continue .8 miles to the Schoolhouse Woods Nature Trail parking area on the right.
Notes: Hunting is allowed on Wye Island on specific dates ... see the Wye Island website(http://www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/eastern/wyeisland.html) for details. Beware of thorns around both boxes ... we have tried to avoid taking you through thorny areas, but those buggers seem to crop up pretty fast!
Clues: Head out on the Schoolhouse Woods Nature Trail through an old growth forest, one of the largest existing on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Depending on the season, you may notice the rounded leaves of the Osage Orange trees, named for the Osage Indians. You will walk past numbered posts, and after post 4, be sure to follow the trail as it heads to the righthand edge of the forest ... there are no blazes here to help you, and post 5 is set back a bit from the trail. Soon after, you should find yourself walking along the bank of a creek to your right. Continue on the trail until you reach post 8, and approximately 56 paces further is an unmistakeably huge tree on your right. The Wye Island Osage letterbox rests against the backside of this tree, hidden behind small upright logs.
Continue on the trail past post 10, and cross an equestrian trail. Leave the nature trail by crossing the trio of footbridges on your right. Continue on this side path across a fourth footbridge, and onward to a serene spot by the water's edge. From the Fishing / No Fires sign, walk 7 paces at 10 degrees, where you should see a visible path into the woods on your right. Go 13 paces at 62 degrees, straight up to a tree. Finally, go 7 paces at 190 degrees to a large 2-in-1 tree. The Wye Island Cove letterbox is relaxing under bark on the backside of this tree. After stamping, spend some time enjoying the view in this perfect picnic spot.
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April 2008 notes/updates:
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(0) Box #2 has been lost to letterboxing history. It is still very much worth the extra 5mins to hike to its old location (very serene and scenic).