Pinery Road Traditional Cache
Hidden : 1/14/2007
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

A cache in a nice scenic location on the road to old Fort Craig Historic Site. Please re-hide this cache better than you found it.

On Interstate Highway 25, take exit 115 and go over toward the truck stop. At State Road 1 there is sign to Fort Craig: turn left, zero out your mileage and head north on State Road 1: At 2.9 miles (microwave tower) turn right and head east on the usually well-maintained county road as though you were going to Fort Craig Historic Site (which you should do anyhow (visit link) At .3 mile turn right onto a large cleared area. This is BLM-managed public land. This was a parking lot prepared for the Fort Craig 150th anniversary in 2004. The cache is also on public land near here. You can camp here if you'd like.

And why here? Well, the county road is pretty much right on top of the Pinery Road that Fort Craig soldiers traveled during 1854 to around 1891 up to the San Mateo and Magdalena mountains to the west to cut pines for building and heating the fort. The range kind of southeast is the Fra Cristobals. To your northeast you can see Mesa del Contadero or Black Mesa. Way out there on the far horizon, in line with the middle of Contadero, are the Oscura Mountains, and just this side of which the first A bomb went off in 1945 - Trinity Site.

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