Letterboxing is an outdoor treasure hunt that will help you explore our preserves! This activity allows you to explore interesting locations and collect unique stamps to mark your visit. Letterboxing also encourages you to learn something unique about each of our preserves.
Letterboxing is Scarborough Land Trust’s very own geocaching program! Similar to geocaching, each letterbox is hidden in a secret location, and inside there is a notepad, pencil, stamp, stamp pad, and sticker.
Once the box is found, each letterbox detective is encouraged to bring along their own personal journal or notepad to document the locations of their findings. If you do not have your own journal … no worries!
Document your journey to the letterbox in the notebook provided inside. Feel free to write down an observation, draw a sketch, or share your favorite part of the trail. If writing does not call to you, you may use the animal tracks stamp and stamp pad included in the letterbox and record your trip that way. If you wish to receive a prize for finding all nine letterboxes, make sure you have your own journal and use the stamp for each location.
Not only do letterboxing clues help guide you to the letterboxes but they also provide some interesting facts about the history, ecology, and geology of that property.
If you would like to visit all nine letterboxes and win an SLT patch, be sure to have your own journal or notepad to collect each of the animal track stamps. Record your letterbox find with the stamp and corresponding stamp pad to show each one you found. You may bring in your record notebook to our nature store located at 25 Plaza Dr St 6 in Scarborough, or you may email us a photo and we will verify your visits and award you with an SLT patch!
Email info@scarboroughlandtrust.org to submit your photos
