South Jersey Checkpoint
Challenge
Checkpoint Yew
Welcome to Union Lake in Millville, NJ. This cache will fulfill
the “Yew”
requirement for the South
Jersey Checkpoint Challenge.
Union Lake is southern New Jersey's largest freshwater body
of water. It has had a history of providing good fishing for a
variety of species. The lake was constructed in the 1790s, and
later in 1868, it was sold to the Millville Manufacturing Company,
and a new dam was built downstream of the original, and it
significantly increased the size of the lake. It is part of the
Union Lake Wild life Management area, and is located on the Maurice
River Drainage. The lake and it's surrounding properties were
purchased by the New Jersey Fish Game and Wildlife in 1982, and the
Division reconstructed the dam in 1989, and built a fish ladder in
1990.
Official SJCC
Information
The South Jersey Geocachers (SJG) are sponsoring the South Jersey
Checkpoint Challenge series. This challenge is intended to take
geocachers on a tour of Southern New Jersey (loosely defined as
south of I-195) while finding caches placed by members of the SJG.
On the tour, we hope you will find South Jersey an interesting and
beautiful part of our great state.
Scattered around the area are 26 checkpoint caches and a final
challenge cache - South
Jersey Checkpoint Challenge (GC1NJDZ). The names of the
individual checkpoint caches are based on a phonetic alphabet using
plants to represent the diversity of ecosystems that you will
encounter on your tour of Southern New Jersey. You may even run
into the infamous Jersey Devil while you're there. The 26
checkpoints do not have to be completed in any particular order.
See the SJCheckpoint bookmark for the complete list of caches.
Hidden within the 26 checkpoint caches are numbers to be used in
determining the coordinates of the final South Jersey Checkpoint
Challenge cache – please be sure to note them while you are
there.
While there are no special logging requirements for the 26
checkpoint caches, there are special logging requirements for the
final challenge cache. Complete information can be found on the
South
Jersey Checkpoint Challenge (GC1NJDZ) cache page.
Happy caching and enjoy the South Jersey Checkpoint
Challenge!!!
This cache is certified South Jersey
