Up The Canal Without a Paddle Traditional Cache
ChiefGeocacher: Hello Fallguy26 -
As the issues with this cache have not been resolved, I must regretfully archive it.
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Up The Canal Without a Paddle
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Just off a well laid trail (tow path) along the Delaware and Hudson Canal. Approx. 1/4 mile walk from parking area.
This is an area that I grew up playing in. The trail back then was more like the trail that the actual mules pulled the barges from. The cache is just off the trail but is ranked the way I did because it is not fully accessable by wheelchair. Although I suggest parking in town and walking around to the front of the large stone building to find the trail head there are other places where this cache can be accessed from. As this is my first cache I've hidden, I will change the rating depending on feedback. This trail and cache are accessible year round. If you are doing something dangerous you are in the wrong spot. Good cache for kids but watch them, some edges of the canal are not roped off. Multiple small items in cache including a couple new treasures for kids a geocoin, a musical TB and a FTF gift certificate to a local establishment.
This cache is hidden by lock 18. If time permits a walk through town should be taken. There are many old historical buildings, the old aqueduct abutments, more sections of canal and a canal museum.
History - The Delaware and Hudson Canal carried barges filled with anthracite coal from Honesdale, Pennsylvania to Kingston, New York, from 1828 to 1898. On return trips, barges carried local commodities such as cement, apples, and lumber.
The 108-mile, 108-lock route was hand built, mostly by Irish and German immigrants. It included several canal aqueducts designed by John Roebling, who later designed the Brooklyn Bridge. - Taken from D&H Canal Historical Society Flyer.
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