The Warlow "safety rest area" was closed for almost a full year
while the state totally dozed the old buildings and then
constructed state-of-the-art new ones and totally renovated the
entire rest area. It's actually quite a nice place now to take a
restroom break, stretch the legs and/or even cop a little rest
before continuing your travels up/down Hwy 99 through the central
valley. The Warlow rest area is only one of three such places along
Hwy 99... the other two being south of Tulare and clear up in
Turlock. Of the three rest areas it is the largest along Hwy 99 and
possibly one of the largest in the state.
The rest area is accessible to either northbound or southbound
travelers. Since it is so huge I felt that it could use a couple of
extra caches to compliment Tom&Si's original cache and make it
worth the while for geocaching travelers to stop and pick up three
caches in one setting. Enjoy the stretch and the rest as you hunt
for all three caches in this rest area.
This cache is near the northern end of the rest area where there
is a HUGE additional parking lot that could accommodate a fleet of
trucks or RVers and is "cache friendly" to both types of geocachers
in these rigs.