Hazard City / Perry County Tour II Event Cache
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Hazard City / Perry County Tour II
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Friday, October 19, 2007
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Everyone, Mark your calendars!!!!!! October the 19th, 20th, and 21st, is the “Big” Geocaching Weekend Event in Hazard City/Perry County, Kentucky in Eastern, Kentucky. The event is going to be called “The Hazard City/Perry County Tour.” I, Kentucky Trio, and other members of The Big Sandy Area Geocachers,are working with The Hazard City/Perry County Department of Tourism to host this “Big “ weekend event.
We currently have 85-90 caches in Hazard and Perry County at this time and will have more, which will become permanent on October the 19th, 2007, and some temporary caches for you to log. These caches will be located throughout Hazard City and Perry County. Perry County was formed in 1821. It is located in the Eastern Coal Field region of the state. The elevation in the county ranges from 700 to 2520 feet above sea level. In 2000 the county population was 29,390 in a land area of 342.15 square miles, an average of 85.9 people per square mile. The county seat is Hazard. Perry County is a long county with a lot of distance in between the two ends. These 85-90 caches are located around some places of historical significance to Perry County and Hazard City as well as other places of significance, interest and/or scenic areas so bring your cameras to take a lot of pictures. Our new caches will also be located around some places of historical significance to Perry County and Hazard City as well as other places of significance, interest and/or scenic areas. We will have prize caches with the prizes in them or cards with with a number. You get the prize that corresponds to that number.
We are having a coin made for the event as well as t-shirts for the event both of which will be different than last years. There will be a small entrance fee for a geocaching team of $10.00 per geocaching name. Example; a family that goes by one name will just pay $10.00. We are going to try and do some things the same and some a little differently. If you have any questions, comments, and/or concerns, please feel free to email me at rmm879@windstream.net.
******The beginning coordinates for the event will be changing as the building we had planned on starting the event at is booked up/ filled up for the weekend. Will post new coordinates soon!!!! July the 26th, 2007
Remember, the cost for the registration is $10.00 per geocaching name. You may preregister online or at the event the same cost of $10.00 but we would prefer that you notify us before the night of the event so that we will know approximately how many to expect in attendance.
Also, please post on the event page that you will be attending.
Thank you,
Kentucky Trio..
We are also working on getting those that come to the event discounts at some of our local hotels, discounts for staying and eating at The Buckhorn State Resort Park Lodge. We are also working on getting discounted rates for those that want to camp at the Buckhorn State Resort Park Campground. There may be some available camping spots within the county that would not usually be used for camping, some with electric and some without. We are working on that.
Hotels/Motels that are in Hazard and Perry County
Let all of these hotels/motels know that you are reserving a room for The Geocaching Event for The Weekend of October the 19th, 20th, and 21st. This is what the room was quoted to Mike McCaffrey for, for this weekend event.
Combs Motel (Curtis Combs - Manager and Owner)
1616 North Main Street
Hazard, KY 41701
(606) 436-5748
Room Rate $46.20
Days Inn (Charles or Chuck Feltner - Management)
359 Morton Blvd.
$48.25 single
$52.45 double
(606) 436-4777
Daniel Boone Motor Inn (Walter Chenault - Manager)
90 Boone Ridge Road
Hazard, KY 41701
(606) 439-5896
Room Rate $40.00
Hazard Hotel (Geraldine Tucker - Manager)
200 Dawahare Drive
Hazard, KY 41701
(606)436-6633
Room rates; single $55.09 double $63.46
has (heated) indoor and outdoor pool
Reno's restaurant located inside hotel. internet
recently remodeled/recarpted rooms
Super 8
125 Village Lane
Hazard. KY 41701
(606) 436-8888
Room Rate $49.00 (talked with Bobby Lee-manager)
Hampton Inn
70 Morton Boulevard
Hazard, KY 41701
(606) 439-0902
Room Rate $79.00
(Carl Miller- manager)
Our Hampton Inn is equipped with a heated indoor pool, hot tub, exercise room, HBO, free hot breakfast, and has internet capabilities for your laptops.
Holiday Inn Express (Manager:James Caudill)
192 Corporate Drive
Hazard, KY 41701
across from our new Super Center Wal-Mart
606-487-0595
Room Rate $80.00
The Holiday Inn Express has an indoor pool and a free continental breakfast.
Buckhorn Lodge at the Buckhorn Lake and State Resort Park.
All you will have to purchase on your own is Saturday breakfast and lunch and Sunday night dinner or your meal on the way back home.
Provided for you will be a dinner Friday Night and a lunch on Sunday afternoon starting at 12:00noon
Buckhorn's Address and Toll free number is
Buckhorn Lake and State Resort Park
4441 Ky Highway 1833
Buckhorn, KY 41721-8434
1-800-325-0058
Camping is also available and free in a specified area of The Perry County Park for tents and trailers as long as we keep cars and trailers out of the grass. The Perry County Judge Executive does not want the grass all torn up. The Perry County Park closes the gates at 11:00pm and opens them back up at 6:00am.
Buckhorn also has camping available.
A little closer to us is Carrs Fork or Carrs Creek Lake Campground which is the next county over but is a little closer to us.
The event will start on October the 19th, 2007 at The Perry County Library (see updated coords) with registration being from 6:00-8:00p.m. Also on that evening, we will be treating you to a wonderful dinner catered by one of our local restaurants. That will go on until the last cacher is fed.
On Saturday, October the 20th, 2007, at 8:00am, all cachers will report to a designated location. You will be able to cache all day Saturday, Saturday Night if you want to, and Sunday until 12:00 noon.
On Sunday, October the 21st, 2007, all cachers will cache until 12:00noon. Then, they will meet back at a specified location where they will be served a small meal. During this time, prizes and awards will be handed out. The event will be scheduled to end about 3:00pm.
October is a great time of the year, especially here in the mountains. Leaves are changing colors, wildlife is stirring, the air is cool, not real hot, and the nights can get really cold. While here for this event, we do not want you to just cache but enjoy the scenery, wildlife, and what the mountains of Eastern KY has to offer.
Keep checking back to this website caching page as I will add details and updates as this event is still being planned as they become available.
For those of you that do not have a laptop computer, be sure to bring your USB cable support so that we may or you can download all of the coordinates for the permenant and temporary caches to your GPS for you.
Please see the other events to be held in Hazard and Perry County this same weekend;
Da Doing It Dutch on The Range GC14VYQ (visit link)
BBQ at Buckhorn GC14VZ4 (visit link)
For more information contact: John at The Department of Tourism for Perry Co.//Hazard City at; john@perrycountytourism.com or me, Kentucky Trio at; rmm879@windstream.net
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