Baldwin Drive Dumped Areas
Baldwin Drive was open to the public from the late 1930s to about 1982 and has been disrespected by people who used the road and left their trash behind. The areas most affected were the wide sections of the road, which were presumably places people could park to enjoy the view from the top. In any given stretch of road, it has been easy to fill a bucket or more with bottles that people tossed into the woods. They have been there a long time, as evidenced by their designs, such as the squat brown Schmidt’s beer bottles, or the seven-ounce Miller Pony bottles.
Some areas were particularly affected by trash and illegal dumping, as indicated below. The areas are presented geographically starting with the closest to the main entrance and heading north. Baldwin Drive is 5.6 miles long and had trash dumped alongside its entire length, but certain areas stand out as being particularly affected.
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Assorted bottles and cans lie in the leaves along the shoulder of Baldwin Drive on Dec. 29, 2020, looking just as they did when they were likely tossed there in the 1970s. They were removed by volunteers and recycled or placed in the trash, depending on their condition. |
East Side Overlook
The first pull-off area is located 1.2 miles north of Regicide Drive, on the east side of the road looking toward Lake Wintergreen. In 2014, two volunteers helped me remove bricks that someone had dumped over the side. We used them to fill the post holes by the road. We also hauled out a bunch of junk from the bottom of the hill, including a metal cabinet, two bed springs, a tire, some metal chair frames, and other sort of junk. We also collected 3 buckets’ worth of old bottles and cans, plus lots of broken glass from the slope.
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A Pontiac hubcap and a metal car part and five buckets of bottles and cans were removed from the woods off Baldwin Drive on June 29, 2018. |
East Side Rocky Slope
One area that is not an overlook that had items dumped is the east side of Baldwin Drive, 1.6 miles north of Regicide Drive and a tenth of a mile south of the Blue-White Trail. This spot is located about 100 feet into the woods, which seems odd that someone would go to that much trouble to dump items, as compared to just leaving them by the side of the road. Adding to their challenge is the fact that the rocks on that side of the road are about four feet higher than the road.
I worked on this area mostly by myself in 2018 with help one day from another volunteer to cart away what I hauled out. Metal items that were removed include a torque converter, a light fixture, a car radio, part of an air cleaner, and a car horn. I also removed a load of vinyl siding, foam insulation and wires, and filled 10 buckets with trash. The largest item and the only remaining item is an engine block, which is still in the woods as of April 2025, due to its heavy weight.
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Vinyl siding was scattered in the woods east of Baldwin Drive, 1.6 miles north of the main entrance, 0.1 miles south of the Blue-White Trail, as seen in July 2018, and was removed by 2020. |
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Vinyl siding, a piece of metal, and other trash removed from the woods east of Baldwin Drive, and brought out to the road for removal July 11, 2018. |
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This engine block was dumped in the woods east of Baldwin Drive, 1.6 miles north of the main entrance, 0.1 miles south of the Blue-White Trail, as seen in July 2018, and is still there as of January 2026. Removing this will be difficult due to its weight. |
Glen Lake Overlook
The area most affected by dumping is the only actual pull-off on the west side of the road, located 2.8 miles north of the junction with Regicide Drive, the park’s entry road. From this overlook, there are screened views of Glen Lake in Woodbridge. The Regicides Trail crosses through the area, and the North Summit Trail descends into Woodbridge.
Summer 2008 was the one year I was a paid seasonal state employee, earning the princely sum of $12 per hour. This job allowed me to drive a state pickup truck and I was also able to get help from other seasonal employees. We filled the pickup truck five times with junk from the slope below the area, including a steel tank, a gas station sign, gas station hoses, two mattress frames, and the roof to a pickup truck.
I also removed many buckets worth of broken glass bottles. In addition, I swept the pavement closest to the viewpoint, which was challenging to do because the glass pieces drop into the uneven pavement.
Since 2008, I have revisited the area to pick up more broken glass. In August 2016, I filled three buckets with bottles and other trash. Most of the slope is clear, but the pavement remains a work in progress.
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Old bottles and cans and bits of broken glass from the slope of the Glen Lake overlook off Baldwin Drive fill five boxes used to collect them and remove them from West Rock on Aug. 18, 2016. Note the pop-top lid in the can next to the Budweiser can in the top box, a design that clears shows the age of these cans and bottles. |
Baldwin Drive, East Side Overlook,
A multi-year group project from 2018 to 2023 has been cleaning up the east side of Baldwin Drive, four miles north of Regicide Drive, about a tenth of a mile north of the Yellow Trail at a spot where the Regicides Trail crosses the road from west to east. This wide spot in the road has few trees, probably because of the rocky slope created at this location by the widening. The entire fence line was thickly lined with invasive plants, primarily multi-flora rose and bittersweet vines. Removing the invasives allowed volunteers to reach all the trash left behind. There are still more invasives to remove, but most have been cut away.
The larger items included three metal trashcans and 55-gallon drum, which the state hauled away. Other items included a child’s fire engine with pedals, three car tires, a Pontiac wheel cover, a transmission gear, a car differential, a metal shaft, the post to a bumper jack, a porcelain sink or toilet, a child’s typewriter, a bicycle tire, and a metal post attached to a concrete base. We collected 40 buckets worth of old bottles and cans from the slope.
There is still trash to collect from this slope, which is a challenge because it is steep with loose rock.
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Boxes and buckets full of trash rest on Baldwin Drive after being removed from the east slope of the road, 0.1 miles north of the Yellow Trail on Dec. 7, 2019. |
Baldwin Drive Northern Sections
A brief project in June 2018 was collecting tires and other junk on the west side of Baldwin Drive, 4.3 miles north of the road's start, and 0.35 miles north of the Yellow Trail. I went hundreds of feet downslope to push and carry six tires and two rims, along with a TV set, an entry rug, assorted small car parts, and 2 buckets of trash, all of which I removed from the park for proper disposal.
In the woods on the west side of the road, 4.5 miles north of Regicide Drive, just before the Regicides Trail ascent to the Lake Watrous overlook was a quantity of junk that I removed June 5, 2018. This included two bicycle handlebars, a box fan, a car radio, a small fluorescent light fixture, and plus four buckets of old bottles and cans.
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Tires are stacked in the woods on the west side of Baldwin Drive, 4.3 miles north of the main entrance, as they were being carried upslope by a volunteer on June 21, 2018. |
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The tires and other junk hauled out of the woods pose for a picture on Baldwin Drive on June 21, 2018 before being removed for off-site disposal. |
Different Locations Along Baldwin Drive
Some locations along Baldwin Drive have a limited number of items that are thankfully easy to remove in one trip. These photos shows two of those areas with the details in the photo captions.
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Mattress springs and other pieces of metal were removed from the woods by the third switchback curve on Baldwin Drive, 0.7 miles north of the road's start, on Nov. 10, 2020. |
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These old-style metal and wood milk crates and the tire were found about 100 feet in the woods west of the road near the northern end of Baldwin Drive on May 1, 2021. Volunteers loaded up a pickup truck and brought them to the main entrance for collection by the state. |
This is a collection of whiskey, beer and soda bottles found along the last mile of Baldwin Drive in fall 2025. The bottles are described in more detail below.
Identification of Bottles Found Along Baldwin Drive
This is a description and possible identification of bottles found in the woods adjacent to the northern section of Baldwin Drive in fall 2025. Wording on bottles was typically ALL CAPS, but it is written here with only beginning capital letters to make it easier to read. The word Duraglas was written in script. Unless otherwise specified, all bottles are screw caps. None of the bottles had any caps or labels.
I have found many more bottles along Baldwin Drive over the years and expect to continue to find them as I do trail maintenance along the edge of the road. The road was open to the public for driving from the late 1930s until about 1982. Most bottles I find seem to be from the 1960s and 1970s. Most newer bottles are plastic water bottles and sports drinks, although I certainly do find modern beer bottles.
Various markings on the bottles guide the identification of when the bottle was made.
This website states that any bottle with the wording “Federal Law Forbids Sale or Re-Use of This Bottle” dates between 1935 and 1964.
https://www.antiquebottles-glass.com/learn/federal-law-forbids-sale-or-reuse-of-this-bottle/
Using the below website as a reference, I put in parentheses on the top line of each bottle my best guess for the year the bottle was made:
https://glassbottlemarks.com/numbers-on-bottoms-of-glass-bottles/
The link to the following page explains that the bottle symbol of a vertical oval with an I inside and a horizonal diamond, is the mark of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. This company resulted from a merger in 1929 of the Owens Glass Company and the Illinois Glass Company, and knowing this date helps with bottle identification.
https://glassbottlemarks.com/owens-illinois-glass-company/
The website further explains that Duraglas was a registered trademark of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company from 1941 for a brand of glass that was lighter and stronger. This glass was used until the 1960s and somewhat into the 1970s.
https://glassbottlemarks.com/duraglas-trademark-glass-bottles/
Other bottles have a symbol of an anchor with the letter H on it, which was a symbol of the Anchor-Hocking Glass Corporation used from 1937 to 1968. The company has tweaked its name over the years and is now known as Anchor Hocking LLC.
https://glassbottlemarks.com/anchor-hocking-glass-corporation/
https://www.anchorhockingmuseum.com/History%20of%20Anchor%20Hocking.html
These article goes into great detail about marks and bottle identification. I have skimmed it, but not read it in detail.
https://bottleinfo.historicbottles.com/pdffiles/OwensIllinois2018Part1.pdf
https://bottleinfo.historicbottles.com/pdffiles/OwensIllinois2018Part2.pdf
This is the main page for the website on which these articles are posted and is another resource for bottle identification:
https://bottleinfo.historicbottles.com
People interested in buying antique bottles can find them for sale on websites that sells such items. In the past, I tried selling bottles online and managed to sell a few bottles and made a few dollars, hardly worth the effort of my time. In the end, I recycled them, at least putting them to good use as new bottles.
The descriptions here are grouped by type of bottle, not by how they are arranged in the photo. The whiskey bottles have the distinctive curved shape. The beer pony bottles are the shorter bottles, some clear and some amber. The Coca-Cola bottle is the green one in the front row. The barrel-shaped bottle in the front row on the right is the Schmidt’s bottle.
Whiskey Bottles
Pint size amber Golden Whiskey wedding bottle (1940)
Has Had No Peers for 50 Years (written in all caps).
Federal Law Forbids Sale or Re-Use of This Bottle
D9 102 (Anchor shape in between the numbers) 40
DIS Pat 113133
Half Pint Size Amber Bottle (1941)
D-9 M-864C
Similar to above bottle, except numbers 67 (Anchor shape) 41
Half pint size amber bottle (1953)
Base of Neck: Federal Law Forbids Sale or Re-Use of This Bottle
Bottom
Made in USA
SD-71 (Anchor Shape) D-126
6 13 53
Half pint size amber bottle (1948)
Base of Neck: Federal Law Forbids Sale or Re-Use of This Bottle
Base of bottle: Half Pint 9.
Bottom
D-11
56-48
Shape that looks like the number 8 with a triangle above and below and a circle to the sides.
Half pint size clear whiskey bottle (1956)
Base of neck: Federal Law Forbids Sale or Re-Use of This Bottle (on the concave side) and logo with two lions facing a letter S and a crown on top (on the side curving out)
I could not find the brand that uses (or used this logo).
Base: Half Pint
Bottom: Anchor Logo M-860 4
13 56
D-9
Clear whiskey bottle, 200 ML (1979)
Base of neck: Majorska logo three times each side
Midpoint of bottle on concave side: large Majorska crown and wording
200 ML. (6.8 FL. OZ)
Base of bottle: Majorska logo three times each side
Bottom: 18
18 (diamond shape) 79
Liquor Bottle
Beer Bottles
Green bottle, 12 ounce
Around the base of the neck: No Deposit (Star) No Return Not to be Refilled
Bottom: 3 (Shape) 9
39
Duraglas
4-Way
Amber tall bottle, 16 oz (1973)
Base of neck: No Deposit (Star) No Refill Dispose of Properly
Bottom: A symbol that looks like square-shaped number 6 on top of a square-shaped number 6 that is flipped.
11 73
11 (circled) A
Amber Budweiser bottle, 12 ounce (1974)
Top of neck: Please Do Not Litter (written twice)
Anheuser Busch Logo shown four times
Base: No Deposit (Star) No Return Not to be Refilled
Bottom: 74
3 10
7098
411
Amber Budweiser bottle, 12 ounce (1982)
Below the neck: Anheuser Busch Logo shown four times
Base: Please Don’t Litter written twice
Bottom: AHK
M3 82
26
Michelob bottle, 12 ounce (1977)
Base: Please Don’t Litter written twice
Bottom: 77
Symbol that looks like a circle with a line through it 11-
MA
Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.
Amber squat bottle, 12 ounce, needs an opener (1952)
Bottom: 52
8576
Amber squat bottle, 12 ounce, needs an opener
Bottom: 6 (logo of diamond over oval shape) 5.
16
Duraglas
GB2230
Clear bottle, 12 ounce (1974)
Bottom: 81206A
16 74
Anchor symbol
40
Clear bottle, 12 ounce
On the neck in ink lettering: P1868124628E
Base of neck: two raised circles on opposite sides, a third of an inch in diameter
Bottom: 3
Amber pony bottle (1975)
Bottom: RHK
95 75 (written left and right sides of the bottom)
M
Amber pony bottle (1974)
Bottom: RHK
46 74 (written left and right sides of the bottom)
M
Amber pony bottle (1974)
Base: W 74 No Deposit 6001 Please Dispose of Properly
Bottom: 11
Clear Pony bottle (1978)
Bottom:
Three vertical lines underlined
1 78 (written left and right sides of the bottom)
5
Clear 7 oz pony bottle (1975)
Bottom: 75 M (in a hexagon shape) 40
Schmidt’s Beer, squat amber bottle that looks like a barrel with a wide mouth that requires an opener: 8 ounce (1974)
The bottle has three horizontal lines with indentations
Base: No Deposit (Star) No Refill and Please Do Not Litter
Bottom: B-1
B 18 = 74
Pat. Pend
Soda Bottles
Clear bottle, 10 ounce, needs a bottle opener (1971)
Midpoint of bottle: 10 FL OZ
A ribbed section that is half an inch wide
Base of bottle:
A ribbed section that is a third of an inch wide
No Refill Dispose of Properly
Shape that looks like a 0 with a line through it 4036
B 19 71
Light Green Coca-Cola Bottle (1948)
Needs a bottle opener
Midpoint of bottle: Coca-Cola logo written twice
Trade-Mark Registered
Under the logo and this wording, on one side it reads:
Min. Contents 6-FL OZS.
And the other side it reads:
Bottle Pat. D-105529
An inch above the base under the bottle patent side:
48 Symbol 48
Bottom: Bridgeport (written around the base and wrapping around the abbreviation)
Conn
Quart size green bottle (1981)
Lower third of glass has rough texture
Base: NB I (in a circle) 81
Bottom: There are three raised lines in a circle and in the center is the number 2 and it is underlined. The glass around the base is ribbed.
Miscellaneous Areas for Trash Removal
In the woods between Baldwin Drive and Mountain Road, I found and removed this safe in November 2017, using a hand truck to move it. On a different day prior to removing it, another volunteer and I hit the safe with a pick mattock. We broke open the side and sand poured out. Had I known that in the woods, it would have been much lighter to move. From the same location, I previously removed a car tire and rim and a torque converter from a car's transmission
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The safe in the woods off Mountain Road in November 2017. |
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These metal parts from perhaps a 1940s era car or truck were removed from the woods in December 2015 and left on the Red-White Trail by Farm Brook Pond. They were moved out to the Hill Street parking lot in January 2016 for removal by the state. |
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This 1966 Ford Country Squire station wagon is the only car that I have found still remaining in the woods at West Rock. This is on western slope leading up to Judges Cave and is off any trail. Based on research, the 1966 version is a good guess. It could be a 1967 or 1968 model as well. Removing this from the wood would be quite a challenge due to its location. This photo is from December 2016. |
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The side view of the Ford County Squire shows some of the fake wood siding that was a decal in this model. |
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The rear view of the Ford County Squire shows how little is left of the car in December 2016. |
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This photo shows a 1966 Ford Country Squire wagon. This screenshot is taken in April 2025 from the website with the link below and shows what the car might have once looked like. If the link is still live when someone is viewing this post, they can see additional images of the car. https://www.orlandoclassiccars.net/vehicles/56/1966-ford-country-squire |
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The side and rear view of the same 1966 Ford Country Squire. The car could potentially hold up to 10 people with three in the front, three in the middle, and four in the rear seat where the seats faced each other. On a practical basis, the rear could only hold two people unless they were children. |
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