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. Watts Burgers Watts, CA
2. 27th Street Bakery Shop 1956 Los Angeles, CA
3. Beach Bound: Coconut Body Butter Waikoloa Village, HI
4. Honu Gamera Captain Cook, HI
5. Lava Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, HI
6. Volcano World Luamanu Crater, HI
7. Rainbow Butterfly Hilo, HI
8. Yippee at Ippy’s Waimea, HI
9. Kameameha jungle cave Kailua-Kona, HI
10. Teshima’s 1929 Kailua-Kona, HI
11. Beauty and the Beach Kailua-Kona, HI
12. Missing Hubcaps: Hyundai Kona SE Kailua-Kona, HI

More new letterboxes

1. Quonset Hut Portland, CT
2. Boothill Cemetery Letterbox Billings, MT
3. 27th Street Bakery Shop 1956 Los Angeles, CA
4. Watts Burgers Watts, CA
5. Rockland Preserve Animals Madison, CT (1/5)
6. What ya Cook’in? Dana Point, CA
7. Dinosaur Birthday Box North Guilford, CT
8. Bluff Head Stones Guilford, CT (2/3)
9. The Fingerprint Tree Guilford, CT
10. T's First Letterbox! Charlton, MA
11. R.O.V. # 5 Norwichtown, CT
12. Valley of the Falls Forrest Falls, CA (1/2)

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