This cache is placed as part of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Geotrail, located within the Buffalo/Niagara Falls Region. There are 15 caches hidden within this region, and geocachers finding ten or more Great Lakes Seaway Trail Geotrail caches within this region can earn a free Buffalo/Niagara Falls Region geocoin. If you are interested in participating in the Geotrail, please visit www.seawaytrail.com/geotrail for a list of locations where you can pick up a free copy of the official Great Lakes Seaway Trail Geotrail Logbook. This cache contains a unique hole punch which must stay with the cache. Use this hole punch in space #4 on the Buffalo/Niagara Falls Region page of your official Great Lakes Seaway Trail Logbook. This hole punch is NOT a trade item.
This cache is located in Historic South Park on the Buffalo-Lackawanna border.
The 155-acre South Park was designed by world renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1894 as an arboretum, with more than 2,300 types of trees, shrubs and plant life, and room for a large conservatory building, now home to the Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens. The park still has over 200 species of trees, and there is a plan to create a Victorian arboretum so historic and extensive that it becomes the southern anchor of horticultural activity with the Royal Botanical Gardens and the Niagara Parks Commission School of Horticulture to the north.
Some points of interest in the park are;
1. Bog Garden
2. The Conservatory, Botanical Gardens, and Arboretum
3. South Park Lake
3. 9-Hole Golf Course
he Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens is a national historic site, education center and tourist destination full of exotic horticulture treasures. Although there are some plants native to our temperate region, most are native to tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. Made up of three glass domes and nine greenhouses, this breathtaking conservatory is situated on 11.4 acres at the entrance to Buffalo’s historic South Park.
Also nearby is the beautiful Our Lady Of Victory National Shrine and Basilica, the dream church of Father Nelson Baker, who is a candidate for sainthood, and is interred in the basilica. The first mass held at the basilica was Christmas 1925.
Below is an aerial photograph I recently took, showing the park and it's surroundings. The White building near the top center is the OLV Basilica.
Congrats to Silverlocks0 on the FTF