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
Rapidan Camp (Brown House; President Hoover) located in Shenandoah National Park
Congrats to Connie, who was the first to identify this mystery spot.
Camp Hoover in Shenandoah NP.
I'm curious how many correct answers came in before my attempt; I'd bet quite a few.
Also, this was an easy one to google (I checked my answer):
doubletop brownhouse "national park"
gave the answer as the second hit (your post was the #1 hit).
I agree with tomp as well, only it's called Rapidan, not Camp Hoover (gave tours there so I'm a little picky)
I do have to say that living in a different time zone makes it hard to get the answer in first. The eastern time zone people always beat me!
@ Tomp: Connie's comment (which provided the correct answer) was the only comment we received prior to yours. As for the Google approach to getting the correct answer, well, it's always available if you want to use it. As you've pointed out, I didn't try very hard to make this one Google-proof. @ Rangerlady,thanks for underling the fact that this complex is now named Rapidan Camp (though it was named Camp Hoover for a while).
RangerLady is right -- it's really hard for us westerners to beat those doggoned easterners unless we want to get up before breakfast.
How about holding off on handing out the answer until the next day?
It's impractical to hold off on the answer until the next day, Lee, but there might be a way to give RangerLady and the the other Left Coast folks a fighting chance. I could schedule the release of the Mystery Spot and Mystery Plant puzzlers for, say, 11:00 a.m. eastern time. That would be 8:00 a.m. on the Left Coast. Wadda think?