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This geocache is located along a biking / hiking trail called "Muskrat Cove". This trail runs along the Bronx River and has recently been reconstructed. The entry-way to "Muskrat Cove" is right outside the Woodlawn Metro-North Station parking lot making it very easily accessible. As with most urban caches, I would not recommend going to look for this cache at night.
Cache contains a log book, pen, small FTF prize, a geocoin I found at "at great big oak", and a random toy. Happy Hunting!
From Wikipedia:
The Bronx River, approximately 24 miles (39 km) long, flows through southeast New York in the United States. It is named after colonial settler Jonas Bronck. The Bronx River is the only fresh water river in New York City.[1]
It originally rose in what is now the Kensico Reservoir, in Westchester County north of New York City. With the construction of the Kensico Dam in 1885, however, the river was cut off from its natural headwaters and today a small tributary stream serves as its source. The Bronx River flows south past White Plains, then south-southwest through the northern suburbs, passing through Edgemont, Tuckahoe, Eastchester, and Bronxville. It divides Yonkers from Mount Vernon, and flows into the northern end of The Bronx, southward through Bronx Park, New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo and continues through urbanized areas of the South Bronx where it divides East Bronx from West Bronx. It empties into the East River, a tidal strait connected to Long Island Sound, between the Soundview and Hunts Point neighborhoods.
In the 17th century the river called by the natives "Aquehung" served as a boundary between loosely associated bands under sachems of the informal confederacy of the Weckquaeskeck, Europeanized as the Wappinger; the east bank of the river was the boundary for the Siwanoy, clammers and fishermen. The same line would be retained when manors were granted to the Dutch and the English.[2] The Algonkian significance of the name is variously reported,[3] The acca- element, as represented in the Long Island placename Accabonac, was deformed into the more familiar, suitably watery European phoneme aque-.
The tract purchased by Jonas Bronck in 1639 lay between the Harlem River and the river that came to be called "Bronck's river"
Along much of its length in Westchester County and the northern Bronx the river is paralleled by the Bronx River Parkway and its associated bicycle path from Bronxville to the Kensico Dam plaza. A project, the Bronx River Greenway, proposes a unified management plan for the narrow ribbon of riverside green spaces in the 8 miles (13 km) stretch of river that passes through Westchester County and The Bronx, as part of the East Coast Greenway.
In the southern Bronx, the river has become a popular destination for urban canoeing in New York City. It also bisects the Bronx Zoo. A tram built in the late 20th century takes Zoo customers over the river to an exhibit of Asian animals on the left bank, with a narration presenting the river as the Irrawaddy.
In February 2007 biologists with the Wildlife Conservation Society, which operates the Zoo, spotted a beaver in the river. "There has not been a sighting of a beaver lodge or a beaver in New York City for over 200 years. It sounds fantastic, but one of the messages that comes out of this is if you give wildlife a chance it will come back," said John Calvelli, a spokesman for the Society. The beaver is named Jose Serrano, after the Congressman, and has been sighted below the East Tremont bridge at Drew Gardens as recently as June, 2009.
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