Up The Creek! Traditional Cache
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This cache was placed for all the cachers who love to be on the water, fishing, kayaking or canoing.
Enjoy a day paddling 18 Mile Creek. Eighteen Mile Creek located near Olcott in western New York is blessed with strong runs of trout and salmon that originate in Lake Ontario. The creek is located in Niagara County immediately north of Lockport. Eighteen Mile Creek is also known by the name Burt Dam and is really more then a creek; closer to a small river. With its close proximity to the fish rich Niagara Bar, Eighteen Mile is a tributary worth investigating.
Eighteen Mile Creek is typical of western NY tributaries, enjoying World Class angling opportunities for trophy salmon, steelhead and brown trout. The runs are similar to its watery cousin just east in Orleans County, the Oak Orchard River.
The cache is a small container with a logbook and a pencil and should be an easy find. The difficulty will be in getting to the cache itself. I set the terrain to level 3 because you can only reach the cache via the water. It can be reached easiest with a kayak or canoe.
You can launch your boat in one of two places. The easiest is at Burt Dam () but when the salmon are running this will be very busy with fishermen. You can also launch on the shore of Lake Ontario. There is a small rocky beach area just west of Olcott ( ). When the lake is choppy it may be difficult to launch here though. The lake may be calm when you launch but the waves may be breaking when you return making for a difficult exit.
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