Birdhouse Letterbox

           Needham, MA

Placed By: Jim Metcalf            

Date Placed: 3/1/02

Located in: Needham Town Forest

Difficulty: Easy

DIRECTIONS:  From Needham center go West on Rt. 135 (Great Plain Avenue) towards Wellesley. Cross RR tracks and take 2^nd left on Linden St. at Post Office. Continue on Linden St. for 0.8 mi. until it intersects High Rock St. Robinwood Ave. is directly across the street.

Park at the end of Robinwood Avenue and follow a woods road to the right (West). Look for a small birdhouse on the right. If you come to a trail intersecting from the left, you have gone too far. Turn around and now look for that birdhouse on your left. This marks the start of a small footpath heading North. The path is marked by more birdhouses and these will lead you eventually to the letterbox site, which is approximately 0.16 miles from the start of the path. If you pass the train station, you have gone too far again. The site itself is co-located along with a geocache site and the final clue to its access is contained in the following message: A lantern in a tree holds the key to a box beneath a bench. You can return the way you came or you can make a loop and extend the walk an additional 0.5 mi. To do this, continue past the site and turn left (Southwest) at the first intersection. Continue taking left turns until you come back to the birdhouse path at which point you continue straight ahead to the parking spot.