L 237

NGS PID: LY1160
Coordinates: N 41.321566° W 75.17325°
Location: Pennsylvania
   Pike County
      Promised Land Quad
Elevation: 1877.16 ft.
Type: Bench Mark Disk
Setting: Boulder
Monumented: 1959
Monumented By: NGS
Status: Recovered
Condition: Good as of December 27, 2003
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A report on the condition of this survey mark has been submitted to NGS, along with the following recovery note:

Station mark recovered in good condition. The mark is set in the top of an outcropping boulder at the intersection of Telephone Trail and Bruce Lake Trail, at trail marker 76. It is 23 feet (7 meters) southwest of Telephone Trail, 17 feet (5.2 meters) northwest of Bruce Lake Trail, and 40 feet (12.2 meters) southwest of a tree with sign ‘Bruce Lake Trail’.

Autonomous (non-corrected) handheld GPS coordinates for the station are 41 19 17.82(N) 075 10 23.94(W).

After a successful recovery (on our second try) of LY1161, we hiked further along the Telephone Trail to this mark, the next in the series. The historic description brought us directly to the mark, which we found without difficulty on an outcropping boulder at the intersection of Telephone and Bruce Lake trails. The disk is in good condition with legible stamping. We took measurements from nearby reference objects for inclusion in our official recovery, and then we continued our hike eastward to the outer reaches of Promised Land State Park in order to recover the next mark in the series, LY1159—or at least that was the plan.

NGS Bench Mark Disk L 237 Eyelevel view of the mark on the boulder. View of the outcropping boulder, facing SE. Looking NE to Bruce Lake Trail sign (indicated).

Station recovered in good condition.

This second order vertical control station is set in the top of an outcropping boulder at the intersection of Telephone and Bruce Lake trails within Promised Land State Park, at trail marker #76. The historical description leads reliably to the station. Station is 23 feet southwest of Telephone Trail, 17 feet northwest of Bruce Lake Trail, 40 feet southwest of the Bruce Lake sign on a tree near the trail intersection. At the station a Garmin GPSmap76 receiver with remote active antenna was used to record autonomous (non-corrected) coordinates which were 352 feet from the scaled coordinates listed in the NGS datasheet. The mark is well exposed, in good condition, and the stamped designation is legible. ~Rich in NEPA~

NGS Bench Mark Disk L 237 GPSr and the station mark. Eyelevel view of station mark and setting. Orientation view, facing southeast. Marker, junction of Telephone & Bruce Lake trails. Zhanna at the Bruce Lake Trail sign.