Date Placed: June 30, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active
Temple Square is a ten acre complex located in the center of Salt Lake City, Utah, owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Contained within Temple Square proper are the Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake Tabernacle, Salt Lake Assembly Hall, the Seagull Monument and two visitors' centers.
Attracting 3 million to 5 million visitors a year, Temple Square is the most popular tourist attraction in Utah, bringing in more visitors than the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone National Park, or any of Utah's National Parks.
During the month of December, Temple Square turns aglow, with hundreds of thousands of lights adorning every tree on the grounds.
Directions:
South Visitors Center: Find the cut-away temple. South of it is a small room "A Modern Prophet Speaks on Families". The east wall of the room has a picture hung on it-- look behind the lower left hand side of the frame. There you will find The Founder.
North Visitors Center: Find The Christus. Exit the rotunda through the east door. Just up the ramp to your right is a room "God's Plan for His Family". Please look through the crack in the doors to see if a light is on, and then listen before entering to make sure there isn't a tour group inside at that moment. Be ready to stamp and go-- helpful missionaries will most likely poke their heads in if you're there too long. (Have a good excuse ready, like "I just wanted to find a quiet place to think for a minute" or similar works quite well.) In the first section you enter, look for the hidden dark grey rock in the crevice amidst the orange ones in the southeast section. There you will find Jesus Christ. Carefully return the stamp to its hiding spot so it blends in and hides in the shadow.
Notes: Only The Founder contains a logbook. I cannot stress enough that you be as discreet as possible while retrieving these. The grounds at Temple Square are meticulously maintained, and both of these boxes will be noticed if you do not replace them EXACTLY where found. Because of this, do NOT allow your children to be the ones to find the boxes! Adults, please take charge.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Best of the Bakeries: Mrs. Backer's Pastry Shop
Date Placed: June 30, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: 434 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active
Be prepared to taste the most incredible buttercream frosting of your life. Not only is it tasty, it's what they DO with it that is the amazing thing. You will find the prettiest cupcakes and cakes at this shop. I have never seen floral frosting work like this anywhere but here. Simply beautiful. Besides frosting, they are well-known for their gingerbread and also the Raspberry Cream Cheese Tarts (which are these little delights one customer affectionately refers to as 'crack cookies').
Directions: In the southeast corner of the parking lot, there are 5 trees growing fairly close together. At the base of one of those trees, between the tree and the small cement wall, is a SPOR.
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: 434 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active
Be prepared to taste the most incredible buttercream frosting of your life. Not only is it tasty, it's what they DO with it that is the amazing thing. You will find the prettiest cupcakes and cakes at this shop. I have never seen floral frosting work like this anywhere but here. Simply beautiful. Besides frosting, they are well-known for their gingerbread and also the Raspberry Cream Cheese Tarts (which are these little delights one customer affectionately refers to as 'crack cookies').
Directions: In the southeast corner of the parking lot, there are 5 trees growing fairly close together. At the base of one of those trees, between the tree and the small cement wall, is a SPOR.
Friday, June 29, 2012
A Lifetime Of Love
Date Placed: June 28, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: 400 East 400 North, Springville, Utah, Utah
Status: Active
Not much of a bench
But it is a seat
So please feel free
To rest your feet
Notes: This box is dedicated to the amazing boxing duo, PhotoGram and Desert Grandpa. They're the oldest boxing couple I know of, and recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary! :)
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: 400 East 400 North, Springville, Utah, Utah
Status: Active
Not much of a bench
But it is a seat
So please feel free
To rest your feet
Notes: This box is dedicated to the amazing boxing duo, PhotoGram and Desert Grandpa. They're the oldest boxing couple I know of, and recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary! :)
Sunday, June 24, 2012
It's A Small World After All
Date Placed: June 24, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active
WTC. Front porch, southwest corner. Take a seat and face City Creek. Look down from where you're sitting, to the river rocks below. The corner is really interesting.
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active
WTC. Front porch, southwest corner. Take a seat and face City Creek. Look down from where you're sitting, to the river rocks below. The corner is really interesting.
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Brigham Young's Residences
Date Placed: June 23, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello and Teancum
Location: 100 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active
The Beehive House is one of the two official residences of Brigham Young, an early leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons). The Beehive House gets its name from the Beehive sculpture atop the house. It was designed by Young's brother-in-law and architect of the Salt Lake Temple, Truman O. Angell, who later designed Young's other residence, the Lion House.
The Beehive house was constructed in 1854, two years before the Lion House. The Lion House is adjacent to the Beehive House, and both homes are one block east of the Salt Lake Temple and Temple Square on the street South Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is constructed of adobe and sandstone.
Young was a polygamist, and the Beehive House was designed to accommodate him and his wives and his children by them. As Young's family grew, the Lion House was built to accommodate them and became his official residence after its construction.
The Beehive House is connected by a suite of rooms to the The Lion House. This suite included Young's offices and his private bedroom where he died in 1877.
Directions: After admiring the beautiful gardens of the Beehive House, you can find a stamp on the west side of the house, near the connector area, under the window sill. Continue wandering west, and turn right between the Lion House and the Church Administration Building. You will start walking towards the Lion House Pantry, but will stop to sit at the first bench on your right. In the middle of the window sill, underneath, is another stamp.
Notes: These are STAMP ONLY letterboxes.
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello and Teancum
Location: 100 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active
The Beehive House is one of the two official residences of Brigham Young, an early leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons). The Beehive House gets its name from the Beehive sculpture atop the house. It was designed by Young's brother-in-law and architect of the Salt Lake Temple, Truman O. Angell, who later designed Young's other residence, the Lion House.
The Beehive house was constructed in 1854, two years before the Lion House. The Lion House is adjacent to the Beehive House, and both homes are one block east of the Salt Lake Temple and Temple Square on the street South Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is constructed of adobe and sandstone.
Young was a polygamist, and the Beehive House was designed to accommodate him and his wives and his children by them. As Young's family grew, the Lion House was built to accommodate them and became his official residence after its construction.
The Beehive House is connected by a suite of rooms to the The Lion House. This suite included Young's offices and his private bedroom where he died in 1877.
Directions: After admiring the beautiful gardens of the Beehive House, you can find a stamp on the west side of the house, near the connector area, under the window sill. Continue wandering west, and turn right between the Lion House and the Church Administration Building. You will start walking towards the Lion House Pantry, but will stop to sit at the first bench on your right. In the middle of the window sill, underneath, is another stamp.
Notes: These are STAMP ONLY letterboxes.
City Creek Center: Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
Date Placed: June 23, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: City Creek Center, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active
BWDAP TVZ IPVOHA MNBRVXMH WPVR DEA OVPLM'H YPARNAP QAOALAP, AJND DEA MVVP BXM EABM DV TVZP LAWD. QZHD B WAO HDAYH RVPA, BXM TVZ HDBPD DZPXNXC B SVPXAP. TVZP IBC MPVYH. TVZ XAAM DV DNA TVZP HEVA HZMMAXLT. ERRR... DEA RVPDBP IADOAAX DEVHA IVDDVR IPNSUH HAARH DV XVD IA RVPDBP. FZNSULT YZLL VX DEA CPATNHE HDZWW IAWVPA RVKNXC BOBT.
Notes: This is a stamp only box. Please do NOT hunt this box on a Sunday when City Creek Center is closed! The security folks would be all over you in 1.3 seconds. They patrol this area frequently, so plan on bringing a big bag, extra children, strollers, ANYTHING that helps to block the view when you retrieve this.
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: City Creek Center, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active
BWDAP TVZ IPVOHA MNBRVXMH WPVR DEA OVPLM'H YPARNAP QAOALAP, AJND DEA MVVP BXM EABM DV TVZP LAWD. QZHD B WAO HDAYH RVPA, BXM TVZ HDBPD DZPXNXC B SVPXAP. TVZP IBC MPVYH. TVZ XAAM DV DNA TVZP HEVA HZMMAXLT. ERRR... DEA RVPDBP IADOAAX DEVHA IVDDVR IPNSUH HAARH DV XVD IA RVPDBP. FZNSULT YZLL VX DEA CPATNHE HDZWW IAWVPA RVKNXC BOBT.
Notes: This is a stamp only box. Please do NOT hunt this box on a Sunday when City Creek Center is closed! The security folks would be all over you in 1.3 seconds. They patrol this area frequently, so plan on bringing a big bag, extra children, strollers, ANYTHING that helps to block the view when you retrieve this.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Best of the Bakeries: Beyond Glaze
Date Placed: June 21, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: 177 West 12300 South, Draper, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active
If you want to see and taste the most awesome doughnuts ever, give Beyond Glaze a visit. Their gourmet doughnuts are absolutely amazing, and well worth trying. The claim-to-fame doughnut? A maple bacon one. Stop in and try one for yourself!
Directions: Sit on the comfy leather couch to enjoy your doughnut. Scootch over to the right and reach up the inside part of the front couch leg to find a small box magnetically attached to a metal brace.
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: 177 West 12300 South, Draper, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active
If you want to see and taste the most awesome doughnuts ever, give Beyond Glaze a visit. Their gourmet doughnuts are absolutely amazing, and well worth trying. The claim-to-fame doughnut? A maple bacon one. Stop in and try one for yourself!
Directions: Sit on the comfy leather couch to enjoy your doughnut. Scootch over to the right and reach up the inside part of the front couch leg to find a small box magnetically attached to a metal brace.
Sunday, June 3, 2012
City Creek Center: Winter Olympics
Date Placed: June 3, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello and Teancum
Location: City Creek Center, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active
So many neat things to find in City Creek Center! :)
Directions: South of the fountain, find Ice Spirit. You want to follow the right-hand end of Parallel Arc that points to a large L-shaped rock. Move the smaller flat rock away from the corner.
Notes: Please please PLEASE be very stealthy finding this box! There are very friendly security folks who are ever helpful. Bring a camera, a book, a journal....anything that can be used as a ready excuse. Rehide EXTREMELY well so others can have fun finding this box! IMPORTANT: the flat rock MUST be pushed back in place as far under the big rock as possible. The flat rock sits directly on the box, so don't fill in the area with smaller rocks and make it impossible to slide the flat rock back in place.
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello and Teancum
Location: City Creek Center, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active
So many neat things to find in City Creek Center! :)
Directions: South of the fountain, find Ice Spirit. You want to follow the right-hand end of Parallel Arc that points to a large L-shaped rock. Move the smaller flat rock away from the corner.
Notes: Please please PLEASE be very stealthy finding this box! There are very friendly security folks who are ever helpful. Bring a camera, a book, a journal....anything that can be used as a ready excuse. Rehide EXTREMELY well so others can have fun finding this box! IMPORTANT: the flat rock MUST be pushed back in place as far under the big rock as possible. The flat rock sits directly on the box, so don't fill in the area with smaller rocks and make it impossible to slide the flat rock back in place.
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Best of the Bakeries: Sweet Tooth Fairy
Date Placed: June 2, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: 1334 Foothill Drive, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active
Sweet Tooth Fairy has a lovely selection of gourmet cupcakes and other delectable desserts. One of their specialties are what they call "cake bites"-- I particularly like the lemon or the mint ones. Sweet Tooth Fairy is famous for having won Food Network's "Cupcake Wars" in the spring of 2012. Stop in for something to appease your sweet tooth!
Directions: Across from the bakery is the parking garage. Head to the entrance of the garage that is by the stairs. HUSYD FT GMVGEU KDU PGEELU KFIU ZX KDU VKSGHYSVU XZH S PSCMUKGY IZO.
Notes: The first box only lasted 4 days before going missing. Since googling the name of the establishment puts this clue on the first page, I am ciphering part of the clue for safety reasons.
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: 1334 Foothill Drive, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active
Sweet Tooth Fairy has a lovely selection of gourmet cupcakes and other delectable desserts. One of their specialties are what they call "cake bites"-- I particularly like the lemon or the mint ones. Sweet Tooth Fairy is famous for having won Food Network's "Cupcake Wars" in the spring of 2012. Stop in for something to appease your sweet tooth!
Directions: Across from the bakery is the parking garage. Head to the entrance of the garage that is by the stairs. HUSYD FT GMVGEU KDU PGEELU KFIU ZX KDU VKSGHYSVU XZH S PSCMUKGY IZO.
Notes: The first box only lasted 4 days before going missing. Since googling the name of the establishment puts this clue on the first page, I am ciphering part of the clue for safety reasons.
Best of the Bakeries: Mini's Cupcakes
Date Placed: June 2, 2012
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: 1751 S. 1100 E., Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active
Of course I had to plant a box at Utah's very first gourmet cupcake bakery. Mini's has some amazing little cupcakes made from fresh, local ingredients. They also use applesauce as one of their sweeteners in the cupcakes! If you show up for lunch, they also offer some very tasty box lunches.
Directions: The white retaining wall to the south of the building has some regularly spaced holes. One of those holes doesn't look quite like the others...
Letterbox: Traditional
Carver: GreenJello
Planters: GreenJello
Location: 1751 S. 1100 E., Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Status: Active
Of course I had to plant a box at Utah's very first gourmet cupcake bakery. Mini's has some amazing little cupcakes made from fresh, local ingredients. They also use applesauce as one of their sweeteners in the cupcakes! If you show up for lunch, they also offer some very tasty box lunches.
Directions: The white retaining wall to the south of the building has some regularly spaced holes. One of those holes doesn't look quite like the others...
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