CONGRATS TO QUILTMAMA FOR FTF!
Huge moss-draped live oaks, sweet gums, hickory trees and stately pines cast their protective shade over the road, with limbs that meet in a towering canopy to provide cooling shade for the roads beneath them. Tallahassee has a long history of protecting trees, going back to the 1843 fire that destroyed the downtown area. When the fire was put out, the citizens made two decisions: to rebuild the buildings using brick and to plant more trees. As of March 2012, Tallahassee has nine canopy roads that provide a unique contribution to the city's southern charm.
There is a cache hidden in this series on each of the City's nine designated canopy roads and all nine are hidden in the same fashion. This cache is dedicated to a road that I enjoy driving at least a portion of nearly every weekday morning - Old St. Augustine Road.
Old St. Augustine Road was the first highway built in Florida. It was completed in the 1820's and followed an old Indian footpath which had become the "Spanish Trail" connecting Pensacola to St. Augustine, prior to American settlement.
Please be safe when pulling over and retrieving cache. Use the parking waypoint for safe place to pull over for a normal sized vehicle. Also, the cache containers in this series can be difficult to open and close and for that I am sorry. If I can find another 9 similar containers that I can use for this series I will switch them out. So bring your nimble fingers and your patience.
And if you haven't already, go ahead and find the other series of caches dedicated to this canopy road - Do You Know the Way to St. Augustine?.