This cache has been placed for KACHE 4, an
annual event hosted by the Kingston and Area Geocachers (GC3573R).
This cache should not be found or logged until after 6:00 a.m.,
November 5th 2011.
The theme of this year’s event is
"Things that make Kingston Special" and the city's proximity to the
Cataraqui Trail, one of the longest rail trails in Ontario, is
certainly one of those special things. Beyond the Kingston Area,
Ontario is full of great rail trails and the caches along this
section of the Cataraqui Trail – once the Kingston, Napanee
and Western Railway – recognizes some of them.
The 156 km Hastings Heritage Trail is one of
the grand-daddys of Ontario’s Rail Trail network.
The trail is managed by the Eastern Ontario
Trail Alliance with the southern terminus located in Glen Ross on
the picturesque shores of the Trent River. It meanders past Marmora
and then parallel to Highway 62 through beautiful Bancroft. But it
still has plenty of legs left as it travels through Hastings
Highlands and eventually meeting the northern terminus near Lake
St. Peter.
The trail is fairly remote in the north, so
caches are sparse here, but there’s a mini caching cluster
around Bancroft. In the south around Spring Brook Dragonflyexpress
has laid out 11 caches along the trail. Then at the very southern
end of the trail Oldsters Go Play Outside have put out 10 Betwixt
and Between caches.
Map of some of the Eastern Ontario Trail
Alliance network. Hastings Heritage Trail in red.
