Little Sahara's Nature View Traditional Cache
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Little Sahara's Nature View
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Sandy and Hilly in places.
Small clear plastic cache with notepad and small items for you to take if desired. Great view from platform close to cache and info about different birds in the area.
Little Sahara State Park, with 1,450 acres of sand dunes ranging in height from 25 to 75 feet, offers the perfect playground, mixed in with some fascinating history.
The dunes originated over 11,000 years ago from terrace deposits and quartz left by the Cimarron River when it flowed across this area during the Pleistocene Age. Floodplain deposits left by the present-day river also contribute to the changing formations. This makes for a very, very fine quartz sand.
Early explorers of the area once called the dunes "walking hills." You can visit Little Sahara over and over again and never see the dunes exactly the same as the last trip. The wind and weather play an important part in the dunes shape and placement in Oklahoma’s geography- sand blows and reforms. These sand dunes "walk" about a foot north westward every year. In some cases in other states or countries, where the sand dune is today, won’t be where it is tomorrow. Little Sahara isn’t quite that bad, but you get the picture!
This cache was originally placed here by Jeritexas.
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