The Heritage Trail eastern trailhead, Heritage Pond, and Trail Interpretive Area are located 3 miles north of Dubuque on US 52 at Rupp Hollow Road. Heritage Pond is a 12 acre site adjacent to the eastern trailhead of Heritage Trail. The pond offers handicap accessible fishing piers, covered picnic tables, and benches to sit and enjoy the scenery and wildlife. Open year round, sunrise to sunset.
Cache is an easy walk from the parking area. (If you go about it from the right direction, no trail fee is required.) Container is a plastic camouflaged coffee can containing high-quality starting-cache prizes. Please return the container to its hiding place as this area is getting high muggle traffic.
The Great River Road Passage series: The GRRP is a series of caches placed along the scenic Great River Road from Dubuque to Marquette, Iowa. They have been named as “GRRP1…”, “GRRP2…”, etc. (to view all of them, click here or search by keyword “GRRP” on the www.geocaching.com/seek/ webpage). Each of the GRRP caches can be logged as a separate find and may be found in any order.