Due to a problem with bots—seemingly thousands of them from all over the world—scanning our website for who knows what reason despite a robots.txt file that disallows it, and often slamming the website with thousands of requests in short periods of time, we now require an account to view clues on this website. It probably won’t stop all of the bots, but it will definitely slow them down!

Creating an account is free and easy, though. We won’t sell or spam your email address. We won’t even send a message to confirm your email address so you can really type anything you want for that. (Although a confirmation via email might be required in the future if bots continue to be a problem.)

Your email address, however, is how you reset your password if you forget it, so you might get yourself locked out of your account if you provide a fake one then forget it (or your password).

Sorry for the inconvenience!

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. Squirrels Just Wanna Have Fun Idyllwild, CA
2. Mano Negra Brewing Lubbock, TX
3. Zuni West Brewing Crested Butte, CO
4. Unaweep-Tabeguache Byway Naturita, CO
5. Stronghouse Brewpub Telluride, CO
6. Golden Block Brewery Silverton, CO
7. Ponderosa Brewing Albuquerque, NM
8. Garden of secrets Salisbury, MA
9. Shakespeare in the Forest Monterey, MA
10. Strawberry Skull Ventura, CA
11. ZEPLIV Ventura, CA
12. Led-Zeppelive Sunset Beach, CA

More new letterboxes

1. Backcountry Hiker Toms Place, CA
2. No Romaine in Rome, Maine Rome, ME
3. America the Beautiful...Georgia Bolton, CT
4. Martial Music, War for South'n Independence: Bonni Bolton, CT
5. Martial Music, War for South'n Independence: God S Bolton, CT
6. Baby 'D' Turns 5 Bolton, CT
7. Stonewall - Stonewall Jackson Stonewall, TX
8. God's Creation Bishop, CA
9. Lady Liberty (OH) Beavercreek, OH
10. Methuselah Tree Bishop, CA
11. Charcoal Kilns Lone Pine, CA
12. Cemetary Safari Preston, CT (4/4)

So you find a letterbox and open it up and there are TWO logbooks and TWO stamps! What the heck, right? Relax, odds are that one stamp and logbook are a "hitchhiker".

You can exchange stamp images with the hitchhiker just like the letterbox. The difference is that you have the option to take the hitchhiker with you. The catch is that a) you have to remember not to let is gather dust in the bottom of your letterboxing pack, and b) you should exchange images between the hitchhiker and the letterbox where you drop it off.

Do not feel that you HAVE to take a hitchhiker when you find one. It’s your call!