Cambridge's Park & Ride system has 5 out-of-town parking
sites, with buses every 10 minutes providing easy access to the
city centre. The service runs 7 days a week (no Sunday service on
the Green route), and parking is free at the large, well-equipped
car parks.
There are three coloured routes on the system:
- The Green Route: Serves Babraham Road and Milton (via the city
centre), providing access from the north and south-east of the
city.
- The Red Route: Serves Madingley Road and Newmarket Road (via
the city centre), giving access from the north-west/west and
north-east/east of the city.
- The Blue Route: Serves only Trumpington Road and the city
centre, providing access from the south-west of the city.
Each Park & Ride site has its own traditional cache. They
are not placed on the sites themselves (as this is privately owned
by the City Council), but within a 5-minute walk of each site's bus
stop.
The set of caches has been designed so that they can all be done
in a day using the Park & Ride buses themselves. A
ticket can be purchased (called a Dayrider) that gives unlimited
travel on Cambridge's buses for one day. As all the Park & Ride
buses call at the city centre (and the Grafton shopping centre),
it's easy to change from one to another to visit all the sites and
get back again.
To encourage the set of caches to be done all together, a final
cache has been placed near the city centre bus stop. This final
cache will require collecting numbers from the 5 satellite sites in
order to find it.
The final cache:
Each satellite site's log book has two numbers, labelled N and E.
When added together, the N's, plus 9, give the decimal part of the
minutes for the north co-ordinate and the E's added together, plus
16, give the same for the east part. So remember to record N and E
when you visit this Park & Ride site!
For example: If you collected N's from the satellite sites
of 20, 65, 54, 61 and 45, these add up to 245. Add 9, and the north
part of the final cache co-ordinates would be N52° 12.254.
And if the E's are 20,30,40,50 and 60, these add up to 200. Add 16,
and the east part of the final co-ordinate would be E0°
7.216.
Remember to add 9 to the N's you find from the satellite caches and
16 to the E's!!!
Park & Hide Series
Happy caching!