MOONAX Traditional Cache
Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions
in our disclaimer.
An easy P&G along SR14. A parking pullout spot is located on the westbound side of the highway. PLEASE be very carefull pulling back out onto the roadway as traffic really flies by here. No need to cross the fence.
Part of my station location series along the old SP&S Railroad now merged into the BNSF Railroad system. In BLUE HIGHWAYS by William Least Heat Moon (Little Brown - 1982) the author relates being ridiculed by locals when asking where Moonax was as he had spotted the name on a map. It did exist as a station on the original SP&S railroad line near here. The station was abandoned around 1940 and the location is now underwater just to the southwest of here. Moonax is an Indian name for a woodchuck which traces back to a pet woodchuck found at a nearby Indian camp by the Lewis and Clark expedition. (S.P.&S. by Austin and Dill - Pacific Fast Mail P101)
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Znt Nygbvq
Treasures
You'll collect a digital Treasure from one of these collections when you find and log this geocache:
Loading Treasures