- Nottingcook Forest - Bow, NH
(#1 - A Pink Flamingo on the Beach) From the parking lot, start your journey on Sheridan's Way. Follow to yellow marked tree on right with a rock base. Go around to the backside of the long boulder, behind tree. Behind.
(#2 - The Clear Blue Yonder - Alan B. Shepard) Continue to intersection and head right. Standing at the gate, notice the large boulder on your right at top of the small hill. Behind.
(#3 - The Frozen Tundra of Holman Stadium) Head back to and through the intersection to the next intersection. Head straight, continuing on Sheridan's Way. Head up a small hill then down looking for the yellow marked twin. Standing at the twin, look to your right for a more naked version. Behind.
(#4 - NH State Symbol - Spotted Newt) Continue a bit past the stump with the triangle rock on it, to the next intersection. Head right to the gate, or atleast where the gate used to be. To the right of the gate post, will be 2 larger rocks. 1 larger than the other. Behind.
(#5 - Welcome to North Virginia) Head back to intersection, and continue right on Sheridan's Way, counting 4 yellow markers. Kinda looks like Dartmoor. The box will be somewhere behind a rock on your right.
(#6 - War is Never Civil - I.M.O. Luther C. Ladd) Continue following the trail. Soon the trail will open up a bit while it turns left. On your right, find a cluster of boulders. Between 2 boulders.
(#7 - NH State Symbol - Striped Bass) Continue following the open trail. Hop over the small stream. Head down the trail past a large boulder to the next intersection. Go left. Locate a large rock on the right side of the trail with a tree stump 2 feet away. Behind.
(#8 - Birth of the Chinook) Continue back to intersection, continuing on Sheridan's Way. Cross over the small stream coming from the small pond. Locate yellow marker #6. It will be at the brook. At this point you will need to head left, yellow marker may not be visible at first. Soon you will come upon a bridge. Before crossing it, turn with your back towards the bridge, looking slightly to your right for a rock based "V" tree. Behind its feet.
(#9 - Pumpkin Fest - Keene) Cross the bridge and head left at the sign. This trail is Wolfe Cascade. Cross over 3 wooden bridges that touch each other. Enjoy the scenery while looking for Buffalo Rock. The trail continues between the Rock and another. On the extreme backside of the other rock, find a split rock. Between.
(#10 - Bill Irwin - The 1st Blind AT Thru-Hiker) Continue on Wolfe, past the cascades up the hill. Pass another large rock, and find yellow marker #3. Look to your right to find a 7 sister tree. They are watching the box.
(#11 - Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster) Continue on Wolfe. You will soon come upon a swamp on your left, passing it to the sign. Take a left on Woodbury. Cross over the brook and locate red marker #4. Just past that marker on your right, is what looks to be a flat rock. Behind.
(#12 - Old Man of the Mountain) Head back to Wolfe, heading left up the hill to first yellow marker. Can't find the next marker? Head left over brook and you'll see it. You'll also see another swamp on your right. You may also hear a stream entering the swamp. Facing the stream straight on, turn around and locate the dead fallen log. Behind.
(#13 - Amos Fortune - Free Man) Continue on Wolfe following yellow markers to that stream you found, crossing it at some point. You will need to cross back over again towards the top of the hill, to the sign. At the sign, head down Black Gum with markers now red. After 1st marker, trail heads left without notice. Locate the next sign. The Cave Trail is marked blue. Find the first blue marked tree. This tree will have a large rock next to it. Behind.
(#14 - First in the Nation) Continue on Cave trail or head back, it will bring you back to the same location. Facing the Black Gum sign, head right. Locate the split log crossing the trail. Follow the root of that split log to the "V" tree. Behind.
(#15 - This Car Climbed Mt. Washington) Continue on Black Gum to next sign. take a right on Nancy, locating yellow marker #2. On the right, into the woods, find a 4 1/2 sister tree. Behind the sisters is a larger "V" tree. Behind.
(#16 - Listen My Children) Continue back to Nancy sign. Follow Nancy in the other direction downhill. Pass the tree cut across the trail to intersection. Head straight, first locating the 1st yellow marker (could be hard to find.) Head up the tiny hill then down. Veer left, cross stream and find a 6ft tall white birch stump on left. Behind 1 of 3 fallen tree bases.
(#17 - Mt. Washington Resident - Nin the Cat) Continue to next sign and continue left on Nancy looking for the 4th yellow marker. Looking left, find identical tree stumps about 20 ft into the woods. Behind 1 of them.
(#18 - Clark's Trading Post) Head back to sign, now heading down Steer Brook. Cross over the stream. You will have to cross back over the brook again, but not before finding a rock pile on the right. Find the "V" tree with rocks in and around it.
(#19 - Robert Frost) Now cross Steer Brook and count 5 red markers. Climb to the top of the small hill on the left, then jump down on right to 3 sister tree dead tree is rubbing.
(#20 - Concord Coach) Continue along the brook following red. Left at Glacial Trail. After 3rd blue marker, find heavily wounded "V" tree. Behind.
(#21 - Hooksett is Ketchup Country) Continue back to Steer Brook trail. Cross the brook. At the next intersection, head right. Pass over boulder flat and locate cut log on the left. 3 ft past the log is where the log came from. Behind.
(#22 - Good Morning New Hampshire) Continue back to the brook trail following more red markers (not marked well at first.) Locate a wooden arrow at the base of a hill. A fallen tree behind the arrow points to a 3 sister tree. Behind that, a fallen tree points to twins where the box is hidden.
(#23 - NH State Symbol - White Tail Deer) Continue following the trail up the rocky hill. The trail will head left at wooden arrow pointing the opposite the red arrow behind it, heading downhill now. At the bottom of the steepest parts of the hill, locate a boulder on the left with a 3 sister tree growing out of its side. Behind the boulder.
(#24 - No! Not a Coach Potato!) Continue, passing 2 more wooden arrows, 1 pointing in the direction you came. Soon you will come to a swamp on your right. Follow the trail aside the swamp. When the trail heads left, locate the cut twin birch tree on the right. At the next cut tree as the trail turns right, find it's 10 foot tall base. Behind.
(#25 - There's An Angel Over Her) Continue to the next intersection. Head left onto Woodhill 0.1 which is marked blue. Follow to the large cut tree across the trail. Most of this tree is located on your left. Follow the tree to its trunk base which is actually next to the trunk base.
-Continue following trail to Woodhill. Head right, back to your vehicle.
(#26 - The Granite Bowl) **BONUS BOX** Standing facing the Nottingcook Forest Kiosk, face left and locate a "V" tree. Behind.
New Hampshire - State History Series