What is Letterboxing?
Letterboxing is an intriguing pastime combining artistic ability with "treasure-hunts" in parks, forests, and cities around the world. Participants seek out hidden letterboxes by cracking codes and following clues. The prize: an image from a miniature piece of art known as a rubber stamp—usually a unique, hand-carved creation.
Letterboxers stamp their discoveries in a personal journal, then use their own rubber stamp, called a signature stamp, by stamping it into the logbook found with the letterbox, perhaps writing a note about the weather or their adventures in finding the letterbox.
Atlas Quest started as a set of tools for letterboxers, but has grown into a community of letterboxers. Pull up a chair, meet new friends, and dig into letterboxing.
Newest Updates!
The 2010 Letterboxing Calendars are ready! Order Today!
New privacy options are available in your preferences. Now you can keep any page of your online logbook private, as well as hide the finds and attempts on individual boxes you own.
Customize your menubars! Have you ever wanted links for your favorite searches on the menubars? Perhaps links to LbNA? Or links to Facebook or Yahoo. Whatever links you want, you can now customize the AQ menubar to suit your needs!
For a more complete list of tweaks and updates, check out What's New on AQ?
What's Happening?
Gavin Forest Educational Tour Ovett, MS (US)
Christmas Eve Chapin, SC (US)
Thanksgiving Day! Chapin, SC (US)
O Tannenbaun Austin, TX (US)
David Hunter Lynchburg, VA (US)
Jubal Early Lynchurg, VA (US)
Winter Walking Bethesda, OH (US)
Handy Manny Series Chapin, SC (US)
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys... Panama City Beach, FL (US)
Another Nut for the Pile Mini Meet Huntersville, NC
DUMMB Founded in the Middle of Nowhere Ohio 2009 London, OH
Come Hike a Mountain - Mt. Kearsarge Wilmot, NH
~Stone Soup In R.I.~ Charlestown, RI
The Secret Santa Project Mystery, ??
Pegasus Pizza Party Seattle, WA
They Say Fifty Is Nifty, But..... Farmington, ME
2nd Annual Christmas Itsy Bitsy Mini-Meet North Star, OH
Bunnies, Bears, and Books Bash Brookfield, IL
The Common Cold by lisascenic
Up, Up and Away by lisascenic
Photos from the Juan de Fuca Trail by Green Tortuga
So Why Are We Thankful? by Mark and Sue Pepe
Bounty by lisascenic
Wild Robitussin Orgies (or not ... ) by lisascenic
Stalking Wendelin Van Draanen by Amanda from Seattle
Mercy Thompson
MP Available - Cartoon Mishap
Play Games-->Feed People
Turkey Trot in Rome
Box numbers
Happy Turkey Letterbox!
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