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Forgotten Highway (Manawatu) Traditional Cache

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J 'N' K: Missing for sometime

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Hidden : 4/13/2010
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is located at the entrance to Bruce Park. Just as significant it is also placed on a small remnant of what used to be State Highway One. Some may remember this windy, dangerous stretch of road which is a far cry from the new highway close by. From the cache site if you look up the road to the left there is a reminder on the bridge of just how dangerous this road was.

Bruce Park is an easy walk through a podocarp and broadleaf forest remnant with impressive specimens of rimu, totara, matai, miro and kahikatea. The walk follows a figure-eight formation ending where you start. It is suitable for a baby buggy if you are prepared to lift the buggy over the stiles and the dozen or so steps at the beginning of the track. From here on the walk is flat to undulating.

In the heart of the park you will find the memorial to Robert Cunningham Bruce, a conservationist who gifted the district several forest patches. A short side track here leads you to the old concrete gates that were once the original entrance to Bruce Park before the highway was realigned.

The cache is a 800ml sistema, please bring your own pen. Please rehide in the same place you found it.

You may wish to continue on a further 400 metres and complete the other cache we have placed in the park. (Brr.. Brr.. Brucie).

Placed by a member of The Kiwicaching Association of NZ

FTF honours go to rattll

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