You will have about a 1.5 mile walk or bike ride to get to this
cache site from the parking area.
This cache is located at the Southern end of Riverbend Park.
Entry point is from Indiantown Rd.
Self-guided trails are open for hiking and bicycling, from
sunrise to one hour before sunset.
Geographically, the park serves as the gateway to the
Loxahatchee National Wild and Scenic River, Florida's first river
to receive the federal designation. Riverbend Park also serves as
part of the head waters to the Northwest Fork of the Loxahatchee
River, the only surviving example of a subtropical cypress forest
river system remaining in Florida.
Historically, this park was the site of the last great battle of
the Second Seminole War. On January 24, 1838, Major General Thomas
S. Jessup, accompanied by 1500 troops, stormed the headwaters of
the Loxahatchee River where he met 300 Seminoles in battle. When
Jessup's army came into Jupiter in 1838 it was the largest army
assembled during the seven year war and the battle would be known
as the Battle of the Loxahatchee River. That battle was the second
to occur here within nine days. In the first battle, on January 15,
1838, Lt. Levin M. Powell of the U. S. Navy, with fifty-five
sailors and twenty-five soldiers was routed by the Seminoles.
Wear insect repellant, there are loads of "SKEETERS" in there in
the summertime!