Shady 40 Rest Traditional Cache
RoadRunner: This cache has been disabled for a very long time. (3 weeks is the expected time bring a cache back up to standards). I am archiving it to clear the area. If you are able to repair this, please submit a new listing. If you feel this should be active, please contact me though my profile (be sure to include the GC####).
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Easy to drive up to and park right beside. It is a small plastic container with a couple small trade items and a log. Take a shady break along Old U.S. 40. A popular muggle stop for shade, but location should be accessible since there's room to share. There is a $1.00 coin for the first to find.
This area is in serious need of cleaning up. If every cacher took out some trash from here, it couldn't hurt. Sad to see the lack of care for our environment!
U.S. Route 40 is an east–west United States highway. As with most routes whose numbers end in a zero, U.S. 40 once traversed the entire United States.The route was a cross-country, east–west route. In 1926, the road had a total mileage of 3,228 miles. It is one of the original 1925 U.S. Highways, and its first termini were San Francisco, California, and Atlantic City, New Jersey. The western end has been truncated several times, and the route now ends at Interstate 80 just outside of Park City, Utah, near Salt Lake City. In Nevada, US 40 was directly replaced by I-80. All of the I-80 business loops use the historical route of US 40. In rural Nevada, the highway forms the business loops for Lovelock, Winnemucca, Battle Mountain, Carlin, Elko, and West Wendover.
Most of the western section of US 40 follows the former route of Victory Highway, a road that once linked Kansas City to San Francisco. The road was named as a memorial to fallen World War I veterans. According to a 1926 guide published about the Victory Highway, it was the fastest route between San Francisco and Salt Lake City, allowing travellers to complete the 784-mile trip "comfortably and in high gear in from 3 to 4 days."
Congratulations to elko dealers for the FTF!
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