Au Revoir Redditch 2 Traditional Cache
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Nice and easy pathway here. Some stealth required as it can get busy here especially on sunny days! You're looking for a small black box!
We will be leaving the West Midlands for a more Southerly part of the UK soon. Whilst we will be back to visit family and friends, we may not live here again for some time. We have loved Redditch in particular and wanted to plant a series along a route we’ve walked many times as a family.
We’ve been visiting Arrow Valley Park since the mini-purple was 2 years old. We’ve stood around the play area for hours on end, suffered tantrums and tears as he learned to ride his bike in the park and had many an ice cream and coffee in the countryside centre café.
As mini-purple got older, we walked further and in more recent times we walked all the way from our home not far from the Alexandra Hospital to Arrow Valley Park, many times. Many people have no idea how many gorgeous footpaths and cycle routes there are around this ‘new’ town. It’s a haven of wildlife and we’ve loved living here.
This series of caches incorporates just part of the walk from our old house – it begins about half way along in fact. We think this is the best part of the walk and we’ve made it circular so you can park the car and go around, returning to the car at the end. We hope you enjoy it as much as we have.
You can also combine the series with a much wider walk from almost any part of Redditch – depends how energetic you’re feeling.
There are a few other caches in the park and slightly wider afield, which you could grab at the same time. We remember well our first cache find in this very park – we’d read about Geocaching and had absolutely no clue what we were looking for; the amazement at finding a box of ‘treasure’ hidden in a place we’d walked past many times was the hook we needed!
Most of the route is flat and proper pathways, accessible by foot, bike and with pushchairs/wheelchairs, although the caches are just off the main pathways on the whole. There is one section, near the end which is a more narrow, grassy section. This can be overgrown in the summer and soggy in the wet months (so almost any time!). I would say this part of the route is not so accessible to wheelchairs/pushchairs and possibly not bikes either. Suitable footwear needed in those too.
Parking is available at the start point – location noted below. There is also parking at various other parts of the route – nearest parking is noted on the caches nearest to the car parks.
This is the 2nd in the Au Revoir Redditch series. You’re looking for a small plastic box!
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