Pinkie's ammo can at a neat spot in Settler's Mystery Cache

This cache has been archived.

Keystone: Archiving to make room for new traditional cache.

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Hidden : 11/21/2018
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This is a re-hide of the Pinkies Tour of Settler's Cabin Park - Final. The Cache IS at the posted coordinates.! no longer a mystery cache!

In 2010, this was a mystery cache that required 4 other caches to be found in order to acquire the coords for the final. I have since archived the 4 caches which were "Pinkie's Tour of Settler's Cabin Park". The park has changed a lot in the 9 years that this series has been active. I still think the final's location is fun and worth exploring so I have converted it from a multi-stage mystery cache to a good-old tradition ammo can hide in the woods. It is in a slightly different location from the previous hide. Enjoy!!

A brief history of the Allegheny County Parks

The Allegheny County Park system is now operated by the Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation. It includes 9 parks totaling almost 12,000 acres. North and South Park were the two original county parks established in 1927. Around 1958 - with Pittsburgh‘s first Renaissance - more land was acquired creating 7 regional parks which roughly follow the Orange Belt and circle the city of Pittsburgh in an approximate 15 mile radius. No county resident is more than a 20 -30 minute drive from a county park.
Architectural consultants and planners developed the guidelines for the regional parks; basically a low maintenance conservation area suitable for outdoor recreation, good roads, parking and picnic tables, simple shelters and toilets as well as recreational meadows. Much of the park forests we see today is a result of this planning. The converted farmland now hosts many native trees of maple, oak, beech as well as dogwood, cherry and pear for color and fragrance.
The county parks are designed to hold a special niche - with enough developed facilities to make you feel as comfortable as a community park, but yet retains the rural ambiance of a spacious state park.
At Settler’s Cabin Park, archeologists from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History helped identify the origins of the 1790 log house that gives the park it’s name. The region was famous for its high output of shallow coal and had many abandoned open and backfilled mines. Evidence of oil and gas wells are still visible as reforestation is gradually restoring the area to it’s original rolling meadows and wooded slopes.

This information was taken from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh website in an article written by R. Jay Gangewere, the editor of Carnegie Magazine. The entire story may be viewed at (visit link)

The 1589 acres of Settler’s Cabin park hold much beauty and many surprises - beaver ponds, waterfalls, meandering streams and awesome trails. Wear Orange during hunting season!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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