Small "Lock N Lock" type container is located on the Willow Ridge
Road on the way to Mississippi Lake in Henry Coe State Park. On
clear days you'll be treated to a marvelous view from this trail
junction.
Parking is available at the Henry Coe Headquarters at N37 11.190
W121 32.789 and the fee is currently $5 per vehicle ($3 if anyone
in the vehicles is 62 or older. (The park does have two other
entrances.)
Henry Coe, located near Morgan Hill and Gilroy, is the largest
state park in Northern California with over 87,000 acres of wild
open spaces. This park is well known for its remoteness, steep
terrain, and hot temperatures in the summer and on warm days. Be
sure to carry PLENTY of water.
More information on Coe can be found at:
Official
Henry Coe State Park website
I was out here today with Catomcat doing a 24 mile hike from Coe
Headquarters to Mississippi Lake. (This cache is 7.5 miles from Coe
Headquarters, or 15 miles round trip.) While we were waiting for
the rest of our group to catch up I decided to hide a cache in this
interesting big pile of rocks with burn marks all over them. This
cache is in an area where the Lick Fire burned in September 2007.
If you look around you can see how quickly the plants are
recovering from the recent fire.
Free, or even on-line trail maps, are hard to come by for Henry
Coe Park but I did find a fairly decent one at:
Free Trail Map (no mileage or topography
information)
However an official (and much better) map can be purchased. This
map even includes GPS coordinates on it. You can order it from the
park website at:
Detailed Coe Park Map to purchase
8/16/8 Congratulations to alpharomero for FTF!