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. Missing Hubcaps: Chevy Tahoe South Lake Tahoe, CA
2. RNO airport Reno, NV
3. It's in a log Knoxville, TN
4. Elana Chivani - XIV Temperance ???, NH (3)
5. THE BELL LETTERBOX San Miguel, CA
6. The Adventure of A Frog New Boston, NH (3)
7. Come on a run with Troop 158128 Houston, TX
8. Elana Chivani - XII The Hanged Man ???, CA (4)
9. Pet Potential Mt. Airy, MD (5)
10. Poseidon's Trident Oostburg, WI
11. Stumpy’s Newberg, OR
12. Momo visits the Trailside River Forest, IL

More new letterboxes

1. Evening Cruise Quinalt, WA
2. Angora Fire 2007 South Lake Tahoe, CA (2/4)
3. Library Book #3 ???, MA
4. RI State Parks - Fort Adams Foray Newport, RI
5. Lucky Dog Middlefield, CT
6. Belle Beagle Middlefield, CT
7. Insects! (v 2.0) Branson, MO (1/3)
8. Hangman Game 200 Branson, MO
9. Flanders 2015 Take a Hike Series _ Van Vleck Farm Woodbury, CT (2/2)
10. Van Vleck Farm Woodbury, CT
11. Anastasia Krupnik Cambridge, MA
12. Elana Chivani - XIV Temperance ???, NH (1/3)

If you notice that there seems to be a lot of clues for missing letterboxes in your area that are cluttering up the search results, please click on the question mark in the lower right corner of most of the pages on LbNA to send me a message (or use Help > Contact Us). I’ll take a look and archive old clues.

I tried to do a lot of that type of clean up as part of the move to the new server and I hope the results make it easier to use.