Shoreline Trail Traditional Cache

Hike Walborn Reservoir's Shoreline Trail. Camo-taped 18 oz. plastc jar. Contents when hidden: AA batteries, various small toys, caribiners. Trail is well groomed, wide, hardpack surface. Be sure to take water on your hike. Distance from parking to this cache and back is nearly 2 miles. Total Shoreline Trail mileage from Marina to Reeder Rd. parking is 2.5 miles.

Walborn Reservoir, with access off Price St.(Marina), and Reeder Rd., encompasses over 2000 acres, and provides the perfect escape for mountain bikers, equestrians, hikers, canoeists, kayakers, and fishermen. The Shoreline Trail's 2.5 miles offer quiet travel through pine woods, brushlands, and oak and hickory forests.Excellent bird watching opportunities including songbirds, loons, great blue herons, osprey, bald eagles, and many migratory waterfowl.

Under a cooperative agreement with the City of Alliance, the reservoir came under the jurisdiction of the Stark County Park District in early 1998. A new marina, boat launch and docks, and a handicap accessible fishing pier have been built at Walborn Reservoir. Services include boat rentals, bait & food sales, picnic tables, modern restroom facilities, waterfowl blinds, and fishing tourneys. The reservoir was named for Dale Walborn, the mayor of Alliance from 1963-71, who initiated its construction.

Permission granted from land manager: Stark County Parks District, Darrin Petko, Natural Resource Crew Leader.