Get the Point? Traditional Cache
SpiritedCajun: personal situation making it impossible to maintain cache at this time. hope to return to this hobby next year
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Cache is located in a wooded area near the Point of Rocks Community Center. Trail head is located near southeast corner of tennis courts. Parking available at community center; however, limited availability between 5:00 to 7:30PM on weekdays Mon thru Thurs with children's soccer.
Trail also accessible off Brookshire Run (Wooden sign and steps down to trail are located in between two residences)
Please be careful near ditch, especially after a hard rain.
A little info about Point of Rocks:
This is a small community along the Potomac River, and gets its name from the stunning rock formation on the adjacent Catoctin Mountain, formed by the Potomac River cutting through the ridge in a water gap - a typical formation in the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians. The formation is not visible from the town and can only be seen from boats on the river, or from the southern bank of the river in Virginia. However, aside from the town’s natural features it is best known for one of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad’s most celebrated locations, the Point of Rocks railroad station, which splits two former Baltimore & Ohio Railroad lines.
In terms of exposure, the Point of Rocks Station is very well the most popular B&O station as it is heralded as one of, if not the, most photographed railroad station or depot in the country. The station’s popularity lies as much with its splendor as its location. Situated at the point where two railroad lines converge, coupled with a beautiful steeple which faces directly towards where the railroad tracks meet makes a truly magnificent setting, unrivaled anywhere else.
The community contains the Point of Rocks Bridge of U.S. Route 15 over the Potomac River into Virginia. The bridge is the first such crossing of the river upstream of the American Legion Bridge on I-495 in Montgomery County.
In 1828, the narrow passage between the rocks at this site provoked a violent legal battle between the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal Company and the B&O Railroad over who could have control of the narrow pass. After years of disputes, both companies finally compromised and allowed both canal and railroad to build on the right-of-way through the passage, with a wall between the two to avoid trains scaring the mules that pulled the canal boats.
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