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Mashamouqet Brook Letterboxes, Pomfret, CT

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Mashamouqet Brook Letterboxes, Pomfret, CT

From: Deborah Perry (mperry03@snet.net) | Date: 2000-11-29 20:09:36 UTC-05:00
The Camera and Film and The Table Rock Letterboxes

2 Letterboxes, 3 miles

Rating: Easy to find
Semi-easy to walk (one large hill)

Location: From interstate 395 take Exit 93 turning onto route 101 West
tword Dayville and Pomfret. Go straight through the intersection of 101
and 169. Just after the junction of 44 is wolf Den Rd. Don't trun here,
but if you want, this is a campground. Continue up and down the hill,
(the road is now Rt. 44) on your left is the Main entrance for
Mashamoquet, don't turn here either, this is the swimming area. Up the
hill on the left is another campgroung. Keep going untill you pass
Pete's ice cream drive-in. JUST past it (almost across the street) is a
Road. There's no sigh at this time. Turn down it and you'll go round a
few curves. When the road turns sharpley to the right you'll notice a
road(dirt) joining it on the left. There's a red mark on the tree. If
your going fast or not paying attention you'll miss it, however it's
easier to see if you miss it and turn around going back out. Take this
dirt road. After a little way there will be a dirt road on the right
take this to a parkinglot, picnic area and outhouses.

Yes this parking area is out in the middle of the woods, but'it's the
only free parking area during the summer season.

After parking your vehicle, head at 290' back the way you came in. To
the blue trail. Turn 45'take the blue trail at 10'.

After a while watch for the log that makes a step.
Cross the wash basin (could be muddy in the spring).
The barbed wire field is at 300'. Decend down the hill away from the
field.
Hop over the log on a rock. If it's muddy there's a pallet nearby to
help.
At the stump with the arrow that marks the way go 90'
At the second marker continue.
A bridge lies in wait. Cross it.
At the T follow the trail to the park 330'
You are now on the yellow trail.
Go down the hill. Look for a bridge on your left.
Walk to the bridge, but don't cross it. Instead go 100'
The water you see and hear is Mashamoquet Brook.