$30 permit fee for 90 days placement (you have to move the letterbox
and pay a new permit fee for the new location every three months).
Crowder's Mountain State Park just confiscated a letterbox, so they
will check the sites and grab boxes. We've been discussing this on
the southeast list this week and the local caching groups have been
going round and round with these bureaucraps since geocaching started
four years ago.

Save your carvings and your travel money for friendlier parks.

Mike

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "trishkri"
wrote:
>
> --- In LbNA-Webmasters@yahoogroups.com, Dave Cook
> wrote:
> I have just discovered letterboxing occurring in NC State Parks.
NC
> State Parks developed specific regulations for this type of
activity
> when the sport of geo-caching came out to protect sensitive and
rare
> natural resources and prevent conflicting activity. Permits are
> required for these placements. Please advise your participants
that
> they should never place these without approval of the land owner of
> manager and in the case of NC State Parks must contact the
individual
> parks for a permit. For the guidelines contact john.amoroso@n...
>
> Dave Cook
> Superintendent
> Eno River State Park
> --- End forwarded message ---

What a shame! We visited several NC State Parks recently,
specifically because of letterboxing. We discovered some beautiful
sites we would not have seen otherwise. How shortsighted are the NC
State Parks regulations in this regard!

GrumpyGrinch (homebased in California)