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Add Location| Owner: | Celtic Paladin
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| Plant date: | May 17, 2020 |
| Location: | Broad Creek Park |
| City: | Annapolis |
| County: | Anne Arundel |
| State: | Maryland |
| Boxes: | 4 |
| Found by: | paper trail (4) |
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| Last found: | Jul 28, 2020 |
| Status: | F |
| Last edited: | May 18, 2020 |
Hike Distance: 3.5 miles with lots of elevation changes and some steep sections. For most of the hike, you will be following red and orange blazes. Broad Creek Park is open from dawn to dusk.
Park in an unreserved spot in the lot for the Anne Arundel Department of Health and find the trailhead to the right of the Deputy Director of Health Information and Promotion.
Shortly after entering the woods, the path takes a sharp left and goes downhill. Cross over a gully (Caution: Slippery When Wet) and turn right so the water is on your right. Continue until you come to a Y intersection at the side of a gully. Go across the boardwalk bridge. The path will begin to run parallel to a fence. Continue until you come to a massive birch with roots extending all the way across the path and along the path for 20 feet. From the base of the birch, look uphill (left) to see a large fallen tree. Lenox is hidden at the end of the fallen tree. The tree makes a great place to sit while you have a Lenox tea party!
On the trail again, go right at the next Y intersection towards the water and follow the trail along a creek. Follow the blazes up the hill. At the next Y, stay right, following the red and orange blazes. You will pass a Yin-Yang tree and an “R+A” tree. When the path meets a gully once again, turn right. At the red arrow, cross the creek using a stepping-stone bridge. Walk along the Creekside path and step over a fallen tree. Notice a large birch 10 steps down the path from the fallen tree. The birch is leaning over the creek at a 60-degree angle. With your back to this leaning birch, look up a steep incline to another large birch near the top of the slope. Walk straight up the hill at a bearing of 300 degrees and find Spode stored safely away at the base of the large white giant.
Return to the path. Soon you will follow the blazes to the left over a dry water channel. Emerge from the woods briefly to see the athletic fields and quickly turn right to head back into the forest. Follow the blazes through the pine grove and stay left on the high ground. At the choice of three arrows, take the white arrow right. Descend on the trail and then take a left at the T, walking down a slatted staircase. When you come to a wooden bridge, stop and turn to your left. Behind orange and pink, you’ll see the base of a fallen tree halfway up the hill. Hutschenreuther is on display in the tree cave, under a few large pieces of bark.
Cross the bridge, turn right, and follow the blue blazes. When you come to an explosion of blazes, head straight up the hill, passing numerous wooden boards. You will pass a bad mother on your right as you continue up the hill. When you reach the summit, take a well-deserved rest on those benches ahead. When you have recharged continue to the T intersection and turn left. Watch for a knobby, warty tree off to your left. Wedgwood is wedged at the base around the back.
Congratulations! Your tea set is complete. To complete your hike back to your car, stay left at the next intersection and follow the red and orange blazes towards a field in the distance. At a tree with two contradicting arrows, turn left. You will exit the woods and continue to the left along the playing field, re-entering the woods on your left just before the turf field. Take a quick right and follow the red and orange blazes past #swag and yolo on your left. At the triangle intersection, turn right and find yourself in familiar territory.
From this point, you will retrace your steps back to parking. Follow the red and orange, exit the woods and quickly re-enter on your left, pass Spode, cross stepping stones, walk along the creek, go straight and parallel to the fence passing Lenox on your right, cross wooden bridge… At the Y intersection, go left into the woods away from the fence, take the second crossing over the gully by the signs, go straight towards “Health Dept,” take a right at the T and you’re out! Phew!
Hike length: 3-5 miles
Park in an unreserved spot in the lot for the Anne Arundel Department of Health and find the trailhead to the right of the Deputy Director of Health Information and Promotion.
Shortly after entering the woods, the path takes a sharp left and goes downhill. Cross over a gully (Caution: Slippery When Wet) and turn right so the water is on your right. Continue until you come to a Y intersection at the side of a gully. Go across the boardwalk bridge. The path will begin to run parallel to a fence. Continue until you come to a massive birch with roots extending all the way across the path and along the path for 20 feet. From the base of the birch, look uphill (left) to see a large fallen tree. Lenox is hidden at the end of the fallen tree. The tree makes a great place to sit while you have a Lenox tea party!
On the trail again, go right at the next Y intersection towards the water and follow the trail along a creek. Follow the blazes up the hill. At the next Y, stay right, following the red and orange blazes. You will pass a Yin-Yang tree and an “R+A” tree. When the path meets a gully once again, turn right. At the red arrow, cross the creek using a stepping-stone bridge. Walk along the Creekside path and step over a fallen tree. Notice a large birch 10 steps down the path from the fallen tree. The birch is leaning over the creek at a 60-degree angle. With your back to this leaning birch, look up a steep incline to another large birch near the top of the slope. Walk straight up the hill at a bearing of 300 degrees and find Spode stored safely away at the base of the large white giant.
Return to the path. Soon you will follow the blazes to the left over a dry water channel. Emerge from the woods briefly to see the athletic fields and quickly turn right to head back into the forest. Follow the blazes through the pine grove and stay left on the high ground. At the choice of three arrows, take the white arrow right. Descend on the trail and then take a left at the T, walking down a slatted staircase. When you come to a wooden bridge, stop and turn to your left. Behind orange and pink, you’ll see the base of a fallen tree halfway up the hill. Hutschenreuther is on display in the tree cave, under a few large pieces of bark.
Cross the bridge, turn right, and follow the blue blazes. When you come to an explosion of blazes, head straight up the hill, passing numerous wooden boards. You will pass a bad mother on your right as you continue up the hill. When you reach the summit, take a well-deserved rest on those benches ahead. When you have recharged continue to the T intersection and turn left. Watch for a knobby, warty tree off to your left. Wedgwood is wedged at the base around the back.
Congratulations! Your tea set is complete. To complete your hike back to your car, stay left at the next intersection and follow the red and orange blazes towards a field in the distance. At a tree with two contradicting arrows, turn left. You will exit the woods and continue to the left along the playing field, re-entering the woods on your left just before the turf field. Take a quick right and follow the red and orange blazes past #swag and yolo on your left. At the triangle intersection, turn right and find yourself in familiar territory.
From this point, you will retrace your steps back to parking. Follow the red and orange, exit the woods and quickly re-enter on your left, pass Spode, cross stepping stones, walk along the creek, go straight and parallel to the fence passing Lenox on your right, cross wooden bridge… At the Y intersection, go left into the woods away from the fence, take the second crossing over the gully by the signs, go straight towards “Health Dept,” take a right at the T and you’re out! Phew!
Hike length: 3-5 miles