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National Park Mystery Spot 14: An Outdoorsy Four-Letter Word that You Have Often Heard

By Bob Janiskee - August 11th, 2010

 

Use these three rhymes to figure out what National Park Mystery Spot 14 is.

Two prongs that meet at Doubletop
Form a river that doesn't stop
Until it dumps its flow
Into a larger river below.

 

and

My vacuum cleaner cannot speak,
And yet it shouts a clue.
If you could read what's on it,
You would hear it too.

 

and

An outdoorsy four-letter word
That you have often heard
Is an adjective, verb, or noun
Whether in forest, field, or town.

 
and

It isn't a White House, or a red or a green house,
It doesn't have clapboards of blue.
It's a Brown House, you see,
And preservationists agree,
That brown will just have to do.

 

Additional hint, no extra charge: This place is in one of the 58 National Park-designated NPS units.

Be sure to check back with Traveler tomorrow for the answer and an explanation of the clues.

Comments

Submitted by Lee Dalton on August 11, 2010 - 6:20pm.

Hmmmmm. Might just work.

Those things are really fun, but it's frustrating as heck to get into it and discover that you've already been skunked.

RangerLady -- what thinks ye?


Submitted by Ilex_Opaca on August 12, 2010 - 2:50pm.

That would work for me as long as we're not creating any hardships for Bob. Goodness knows you have a lot to do. But I'm at work by that time, which is the only place I get internet.


Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on August 12, 2010 - 2:59pm.

No extra work is involved, RangerLady. However, a question that crops up is if the time is set for 11 a.m. Eastern, will East Coast folks who glance at the Traveler before they head to work and don't look at it again until after work then be coming into the quiz after it's solved?

Time zones are a perplexing problem with this story of posting.


Submitted by Ilex_Opaca on August 13, 2010 - 8:55am.

Honestly, either way works for me. I love the quizzes and never look at the answer until I think I have it figured out. I'm just terribly competitive. So what ever is easiest on everyone is fine with me. No sense changing the way things are done for one little competitive complainer =)


Submitted by Bob Janiskee on August 13, 2010 - 12:29pm.

All things considered, it's probably best to leave things pretty much the way they are. I will normally schedule the mystery plant and mystery spot puzzles for release at about 6:15 eastern time. We'll try to embargo the correct answers for a decent interval while readers in other time zones take a crack at the puzzles. As in the past, Wednesday will be quiz/puzzle day.


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