Summer Series LbNA #49451
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Add Location| Owner: | N/A |
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| Plant date: | Aug 3, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Shelburne |
| County: | Chittenden |
| State: | Vermont |
| Boxes: | 9 |
| Planted by: | ACD Trio
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| Found by: | paacha & monya (4) |
| Last found: | Sep 28, 2013 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Aug 3, 2009 |
SUMMER SERIES Directions:
From the North - Take Route 7 South (Shelburne Road) from South Burlington. Take a right at the four way intersection (near the Mobil Station) in Shelburne, Go Right onto Harbor Road, drive ½ mile and park at Turtle Lane on right near the Town of Shelburne Property.
From the South - Take Route 7 North (Shelburne Road), Turn left at the four way intersection in Shelburne (near the Mobil Station), Go left onto Harbor Road, drive ½ mile and park at Turtle Lane on the right near the Town of Shelburne property.
SUMMER SERIES Clues:
This is a series of micro-boxes with only a stamp; so please bring your own inkpad as only the final one will have a logbook and inkpad.
This is a wonderful bike ride, walk or hike series – flat property. It should take you about an hour and 1/2 round trip.
Start on the gravel sidewalk path parallel to Harbor Road. Cross the bridge, take the gravel path on the right near the Shelburne Substation. This is a gravel trail which the locals call the Ti-Haul trail on the right. This mile-long pathway was once used as a road bed to transport the steamer Ticonderoga in 1955 to its current resting place at the Shelburne Museum. Reclaimed as a recreational path connecting Bay Road and Harbor road, the Ti-Haul Trail borders the LaPlatte River Marsh Natural Area.
DUE TO LAKE CHAMPLAIN FLOODING IN THE SPRING 2011 THIS SERIES HAS BEEN CHANGED/UPDATED EFFECTIVE 7/1/2011.
FLIP-FLOP LETTERBOX
We chose this to start the series because you are starting your journey. After the substation, look on your left to see a tall telephone pole with 2 gray plastic electrical tubes containing wires. At the base find a small tree stump – hidden below is your micro-box.
S LETTERBOX
Keep walking on the trail until you see the ½ mile marker on the right. Turn around and take 7 steps going back the way you came. On your left you’ll see a small pile of logs covered with pine needs. Look between the logs.
U LETTERBOX
Continue on the Ti-Haul Trail until nearing the end, you will reach a post marked “1 Mile” on the right of the trail. Look to the left of the trail and you will see a dead tree standing just off the path. Look in the trunk of this dead tree underneath some bark for this micro-box.
Continue along the path until you cross Bay Road and park your bike if you rode one in the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife Access Area parking lot.
M LETTERBOX
Start at the South Ramp closest to the bridge. Walk to the tree at the water’s edge with numerous trunks on the right side of the dock. Once there; look underneath the top step of the hidden stairs behind a rock wedged under the cement.
M (upside down W) LETTERBOX
Look on the north side for the Bridge No.1947 #SA19. Descend the stairs. Mind the guide wires & boulders. In the corner of the metal girder and the cement bridge abutment you will find the letterbox.
E LETTERBOX
Follow the row of red rocks bordering the parking lot. Look beneath the small rock behind the 10th rock from the road.
R & BEACH PAIL LETTERBOX
Find the lone metal fence post near the large rock jutting out into the bay. Follow the crevise of the rock near this fence post for where these micro-boxes are located in a corner crack in the rock to the right of the post as you look out into the bay.(under a rock near two fuzzy weeds) You get two letterbox stamps here as you are near the end of this series!
FINAL SUMMER LETTERBOX
Follow the mowed trail through the meadow to the Shelburne Bay Park.(The mowed path is no longer due to debis from flooding - you may need to walk around on the road to the Shelburne Bay Park.) Follow to the parking lot to the right find the GIGANTIC tree with a huge crevice in the trunk.
We hope you have had a "BALL" letterboxing!
Please return all stamps to their micro boxes and re-hide well in their respective letterboxing homes.
Please rebag and replace well.
THIS SERIES WAS UPDATED 7/1/2011 DUE TO MISSING BOXES and WET BOXES.
We hope you had fun and enjoyed a taste of Shelburne!
Across the street is the LaPlatte River Marsh Natural Area where you may find the LaPlatte Nature Series letterboxes.
Sailors Stash letterbox is also nearby in the Shelburne Bay Park.
From the North - Take Route 7 South (Shelburne Road) from South Burlington. Take a right at the four way intersection (near the Mobil Station) in Shelburne, Go Right onto Harbor Road, drive ½ mile and park at Turtle Lane on right near the Town of Shelburne Property.
From the South - Take Route 7 North (Shelburne Road), Turn left at the four way intersection in Shelburne (near the Mobil Station), Go left onto Harbor Road, drive ½ mile and park at Turtle Lane on the right near the Town of Shelburne property.
SUMMER SERIES Clues:
This is a series of micro-boxes with only a stamp; so please bring your own inkpad as only the final one will have a logbook and inkpad.
This is a wonderful bike ride, walk or hike series – flat property. It should take you about an hour and 1/2 round trip.
Start on the gravel sidewalk path parallel to Harbor Road. Cross the bridge, take the gravel path on the right near the Shelburne Substation. This is a gravel trail which the locals call the Ti-Haul trail on the right. This mile-long pathway was once used as a road bed to transport the steamer Ticonderoga in 1955 to its current resting place at the Shelburne Museum. Reclaimed as a recreational path connecting Bay Road and Harbor road, the Ti-Haul Trail borders the LaPlatte River Marsh Natural Area.
DUE TO LAKE CHAMPLAIN FLOODING IN THE SPRING 2011 THIS SERIES HAS BEEN CHANGED/UPDATED EFFECTIVE 7/1/2011.
FLIP-FLOP LETTERBOX
We chose this to start the series because you are starting your journey. After the substation, look on your left to see a tall telephone pole with 2 gray plastic electrical tubes containing wires. At the base find a small tree stump – hidden below is your micro-box.
S LETTERBOX
Keep walking on the trail until you see the ½ mile marker on the right. Turn around and take 7 steps going back the way you came. On your left you’ll see a small pile of logs covered with pine needs. Look between the logs.
U LETTERBOX
Continue on the Ti-Haul Trail until nearing the end, you will reach a post marked “1 Mile” on the right of the trail. Look to the left of the trail and you will see a dead tree standing just off the path. Look in the trunk of this dead tree underneath some bark for this micro-box.
Continue along the path until you cross Bay Road and park your bike if you rode one in the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife Access Area parking lot.
M LETTERBOX
Start at the South Ramp closest to the bridge. Walk to the tree at the water’s edge with numerous trunks on the right side of the dock. Once there; look underneath the top step of the hidden stairs behind a rock wedged under the cement.
M (upside down W) LETTERBOX
Look on the north side for the Bridge No.1947 #SA19. Descend the stairs. Mind the guide wires & boulders. In the corner of the metal girder and the cement bridge abutment you will find the letterbox.
E LETTERBOX
Follow the row of red rocks bordering the parking lot. Look beneath the small rock behind the 10th rock from the road.
R & BEACH PAIL LETTERBOX
Find the lone metal fence post near the large rock jutting out into the bay. Follow the crevise of the rock near this fence post for where these micro-boxes are located in a corner crack in the rock to the right of the post as you look out into the bay.(under a rock near two fuzzy weeds) You get two letterbox stamps here as you are near the end of this series!
FINAL SUMMER LETTERBOX
Follow the mowed trail through the meadow to the Shelburne Bay Park.(The mowed path is no longer due to debis from flooding - you may need to walk around on the road to the Shelburne Bay Park.) Follow to the parking lot to the right find the GIGANTIC tree with a huge crevice in the trunk.
We hope you have had a "BALL" letterboxing!
Please return all stamps to their micro boxes and re-hide well in their respective letterboxing homes.
Please rebag and replace well.
THIS SERIES WAS UPDATED 7/1/2011 DUE TO MISSING BOXES and WET BOXES.
We hope you had fun and enjoyed a taste of Shelburne!
Across the street is the LaPlatte River Marsh Natural Area where you may find the LaPlatte Nature Series letterboxes.
Sailors Stash letterbox is also nearby in the Shelburne Bay Park.