Sand Spring Letterbox Hybrid

A wheelchair can go to within a foot or so above the cache, but may have trouble with the last few vertical feet. You might want to wear workgloves when reaching for the container.

The original sand springs are now under the highway, but a pipe carries the springwater out to this location. You may park fairly close, or you may ride your bike along the Katy Trail.

The nearby store has a very nice public restroom!

We especially like to visit this cache site at night: shine your flashlight at the spring's water to look for the many crawdads that live here. If you visit by day, they will all be hidden from sight. There is a curfew from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m.

This cache has a valid one-year permit from the River Parks Authority (expires 23 October 2009).

This trail gets a lot of use, so please be discreet in retrieving the container, and you might take it a little ways away to open it up. Hide it well, and try not to let the many muggles see you doing so.

We replaced the ziploc bags with a drybag, since this seems to be more of a hydro cache that we had at first anticipated. We should have expected it though, since Oklahoma gets most of its annual rainfall in a only a half dozen or so toad-strangling deluges. Be sure to take the time to zip it up nice and watertight!

The cache and the letterbox are now back to their original containers, as of 25 Oct. 2008, thanks to a team of determined and fearless letterboxing geocachers. Original contents included the logbook and pencil, and a number of "water" theme items, including travel bug Pinch.

What is a letterbox?. Letterboxing is a sport similar to geocaching that predates global positioning satellites and receivers. Bring a carved rubber stamp to ink up and stamp your design into the letterbox's logbook. Bring your own logbook in which to stamp the letterbox's rubber stamp design. This is one of the first letterboxes in the Tulsa area (we think it is the second one placed here, and the oldest eastern Oklahoma letterbox still in existence.)

Note- everything has been replaced, again. It's possible the heavy rains washed the ammobox outwhere it could be seen, but there are LOTS of muggles here. Please be discreet, and hide everything especially well before you leave, please. Sometimes the water flows high and fast after a heavy rain, so please seal everything up tight.

There is poison ivy very close, but it is possible to retrieve the cache without encountering it if you work carefully. We'll try to keep it clipped back.

Remember there are two containers here. One is the letterbox, and its rubber stamp and inkpad are not trade items.

Travel Bugs that have been here:
Pinch	Eat Chikin!	Clifford Travel Bug

This cache was placed by two Tulsa Area Geocachers

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