Monroe's Manzanitas Traditional Cache
Hidden : 3/18/2007
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This Cache is located above the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park in Coloma Ca.

This cache location overlooks the place where GOLD was discovered back in 1848.
(From the Park Brochure) According to the Gooch-Monroe family’s oral history, Peter and Nancy Gooch came to Coloma as slaves in 1849. The following year California became a free state. Peter Gooch worked in construction and at odd jobs, and Nancy did domestic chores for the miners. By 1861 Nancy had saved enough money to buy the freedom of her son, Andrew Monroe – still a slave in Missouri. Andrew brought his wife, Sarah, and their three children to Coloma, where they became respected farmers. In the 1940s the State purchased some of the Monroe landholdings from Andrew Monroe’s son, Pearley, which included the original site of Sutter’s Mill and the site of Marshall’s gold discovery.

The Monroe Ridge trail is a nice 3 mile loop trail that takes you up above the James Marshall Memorial. There are great views of the Coloma valley and South Fork of the American river area. There are several picnic tables along the trail. So bring a lunch or a snack.

The cache is a small well-camouflaged container. It is 15 feet off the trail and contains small items and a lottery ticket and a small vial of gold from the Park Museum gift shop for the FTF. Bushwacking will not be necessary.

A free map of the trails in the park is available at the desk in the Park Museum. You can also visit the Parks website at: (visit link)

This cache is hiker friendly but bikes and dogs are not allowed. There is also a parking fee which will help support our state parks.

Please log your find or no find online so I will know how the cache is doing. If you feel our coordinates are off please post your coordinates with your log, so we can make adjustments if necessary.

No more boring log entries.
Hey folks how about leaving a log entry that tells us something about finding this geocache or about your day of geocaching? We cache owners like to hear about your experiences. It gives us a feeling of being there when we can't be, how the cache is doing, and it lets us get to know you in a virtual kind of way. That doesn't mean it has to be long just not boring.
Remember the cache owners and anyone with a watch on the cache will read your log, how about making it interesting.
We Thank You.

(Thanks to Species5618, I’m sure some of the words above look familiar – I borrowed a few from some of your cache pages.)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gb gur jrfg bs gur genvy.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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