The Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario is the area around the
western end of Lake Ontario, and includes such urban centers as
Toronto, Mississauga, Oakville, Burlington, Hamilton, St.
Catharines and Niagara Falls. For this cache series, we've extended
the region to Newmarket in the northeast, Waterloo in the
northwest, Port Dover in the southwest, and Fort Erie in the
southeast. More than half of the population of Ontario lives in or
around these cities.
The Golden Horseshoe Multi-Cacher Multi-Cache is a cooperative
effort of fourteen local Geocachers. Each of the individual Stage
caches may be treated as a normal, single cache. You can complete
the 14 Stages in any order. Each Stage will include a *SECRET*,
written on the underside of the cache container lid. Don't forget
to write it down if you plan to tackle the
Final Stage!
Placed in Short Hills Provincial Park, the cache for Niagara will
hopefully showcase this great green area of Ontario and one of the
best hiking locations for all to enjoy.
Parking is available at N 43d 06.529 W 79d 17.238
(clipped from local news)
"Close to 10,000 trees are being planted in Short Hills
Provincial Park thanks to a partnership of local business,
government agencies and volunteer organizations.
A donation of $12,000 from TD-Canada Trust's Friends of the
Environment Foundation got the project rolling, according to Mike
Rose, co-ordinator of Land Care Niagara.
Land Care Niagara, a provincially mandated stewardship council,
worked with regional partners and the Friends of Short Hills
Provincial Park to get the evergreens planted on abandoned farmland
near Eller Road.
With the aid of a tree-planting machine, workers were able to
plant almost 600 trees per hour.
The TD-Canada Trust donation will also go towards reforestation
projects handled by Land Care Niagara throughout the peninsula,
Rose added.
Through the Niagara Natural Heritage Framework Document - a
blue-print for reforestation in Niagara - more than 80,000 trees
are planted yearly in the peninsula.
(Source - St. Catharines Standard)
There are many great caches close by, and I would recommend
stopping by these as well.
Deer
Bait - The mysterious cache. This cache was placed by a
geocacher that has never found a cache and only placed this one,
then disappeared from caching. Now officially adopted by
KDKK17. See the article in The OGA
Newsletter - Vol 1 Number 1
You
Are Logged In - Another Short Hills cache, and one of my
personal favourites. Great waterfall en route to cache.
Battle of Short Hills, the Waterfall that wasn't - Was recently
adopted by OGA to preserve a cache placed in this Provincial
Park
You can make it a great day just finding these three additional
caches!
Hope you enjoy the cache
Please ensure that the geocache is well hidden in the same
location that it was found.
The Blue Quasar
Cache Maintenance Performed On: 01 JUL 07
Details: Archived - Cache Container Removed
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This Geocache will be Archived on: 01 JUL 07