Don't Bring Me Down... Traditional Cache
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This is NOT a cache and dash! YOU MUST BE PREPARED FOR A CHALLENGE TO GET THIS SMILEY! Feelin' crazy? Well then park the car, climb the escarpment to GZ, and find a nano on the Bruce! Bring proper footwear and a friend with you though please. We usually find ourselves humming this tune while hiking on these trails :o) Thought it'd make a good name.
PARKING SPOT Closest parking is on York Road by the Upper Canadian Heritage Trail sign. You then cross the street and take Scheaffe's trail leading straight up into the forest. You may even pass a little spot we like to call The Broken Bones and Bikes Trail :o) You will start to see familiar white blazes announcing that you are on the Bruce. Folow the trail just a little longer now. As you come around the corner towards GZ you may moan, groan, or even curse out loud. But if you are crazy about caching like our geofam is, you may just grow a great, big geogrin! Enjoy, and as ever... happy cachin' :ox UPPER CANADA HERITAGE TRAIL From the Bruce Trail, just east of St. Davids Golf Club, the greenway heads north-easterly across Regional Road 81 to the corner of North Line and First Concession Road. It then travels north along the abandoned Michigan Central right-of-way, paralleling First Concession Road (Railroad Street). The greenway bends north-westerly at East-West Line, converging with The Promenade. At Charlotte Street it extends north-easterly until John Street, where it heads east and eventually connects with the Niagara River Recreation Trail. From the late 1800s to the mid-1900s this route was owned separately by Michigan Central Railway, New York Central Railroad, and the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake. As an early railroad it transported passengers and freight to and from ports in Niagara-on- the-Lake, but the line ultimately was abandoned. In 1973, Regional Niagara acquired the railway bed from Niagara- on-the-Lake. The Region dedicated it as a public road in 1977. The present-day trail was established in 1984. GROUND ZERO Many theories have been offered to describe the purpose of the tripod metal stand. It was a Radio Microwave Communications Tower and has been stated by some as a memorial to the cold war. It was erected by Fleet Industries in the 1950's during the era of fear of Communism for DEW (Distant Early Warning). Fleet was contracted by Siemens Electric to manufacture and test radar equipment ordered by the U.S. government. This tower was used to test and calibrate large parabolic dishes where testing signals were sent from a tower at Line Nine and the Parkway in Queenston. Approximately 100 dish units were produced and calibrated at this location. Also along the Bruce Trail are remnant Quarried Stones from the mid-1800's. These old moss covered limestone blocks show evidence of the quarrying method using steel wedges, called plugs and feathers, that were pounded into holes bored into the stone to split the rocks into rectangular sections.
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