Tadpole's Little Stash Traditional Cache
tadpole379: This cache has outlived its geocaching permit, so I have removed it from the park. Thanks to everyone who found it. Cache on! -tadpole379
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This cache is a small decon container located in Dater Mountain County Park.
Parking for this cache is located at the circle at the end of Johnsontown Road, off Seven Lakes Drive in Harriman.
Dater Mountain Park is landlocked, and the only way in is by foot using Harriman State Park trails. From the parking lot, take the Blue Disk Trail (white blaze with a blue dot), at the intersection of the Blue Disk and the Kakiat Trail (white blazes), follow the Kakiat Trail to the left. After a short distance on the white blazed trail, you will see the orange trail on the left, which is the start of Dater Mountain County Park, though there is no sign. Dater Mountain has two trails, an orange blazed trail, and a blue blazed trail which together form a loop. The trails and some new property are recent additions to the park and do not appear on the 2005 edition of the Harriman State Park map. Part of the trails follow old access roads for the power lines, but the new portions of the trails are through the woods. The trails are well-blazed, but since the wooded portions are new and have not yet been traveled, they can be difficult to follow in places, and you need to look for the trail blazes.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION: The Park, which is located in the New York/New Jersey Highlands, is heavily wooded with steep inclines and rocky slopes and consists of a number of mountaintops and valleys, crossed by several small streams. Orange and Rockland transmission line traverses the Park. A view of the Village of Tuxedo, The New York State Thruway, and Orange County may be seen from the high elevations, some rising 940 feet above sea level. The Park contains eight federally designated wetlands and provides habitat for two NYS endangered species (the Northern Cricket Frog and the Allegheny Woodrat) and one threatened species (the Timber Rattlesnake).
HISTORY: Dater Mountain Nature Park has many local family histories. The Munsee Indians once inhabited the property. It is the westerly part of the Spence Patent. Dater crossing brought the locality into contact with Route 17 and Tuxedo. The area was extensively logged in the later 1700's and into the 1800’s; trees were burned in pits to produce charcoal for the smelting of iron ore. Many of these pits can be found throughout the property. The land was acquired in two phases. In 1981, 150 acres was obtained through tax delinquency. Phase 2 included the acquisition 235.5 acres of land in 2004 as part of Rockland County’s Open Space Acquisition Program.
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