With all the caching activity going on at the eastern Ohio state
parks this summer, I thought we needed something new at this great
park. Findley State Park is a beautiful park
surrounding Findley Lake in Huntington, Ohio. The park offers
several miles of hiking and biking trails as well as fishing,
boating, kayaking, swimming, frisbee golf, camping, a beach - and
lots of geocaches! Of the many Ohio state parks I've visited this
summer and over the years, this is still one of my favorites.
This cache is on the Hickory Grove trail on the back side of the
lake (you can download a trail map
here). The most straightforward approach is
to park at the dam (coordinates below) and approach the cache
from the north. Follow the Spillway trail to the Hickory Grove
trail, then stay on the Hickory Grove trail until you're within
50 feet of the cache. You can also park at the campground office
and approach the cache from the south. If you're a mountain
biker, you can follow the Thorn mountain bike trail to where it
intersects the Hickory Grove trail just a couple hundred feet
from the cache. Either way there is no need for
bushwhacking.
The cache is a large Lock'n'Lock container with plenty of room
for trades and travel bugs. This is a fairly easy hide, but I've
upped the difficulty rating to 2 stars because of iffy satellite
reception under the dense summer canopy. Use the hint and there
should be no need to DNF DNF!
Park closes at 11 PM
Thanks to Findley State Park for permitting
this cache.