8 Glasses a Day: Bottling Saratoga's Springs Traditional Cache
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8 Glasses a Day: Bottling Saratoga's Springs
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This cache is placed as part of the New York State Park Saratoga/Capital District Region Geocache Challenge. The theme of this cache is the bottling plant which is located within Spa Park. Built in 1935 as a part of the Spa complex, it bottled four different kinds of water for over 40 years.
This cache is placed as part of the New York State Park Saratoga/Capital District Region Geocache Challenge. There are 44 geocaches hidden within 11 state parks and state historic sites in the Saratoga/Capital District region, and geocachers finding them all will be eligible to enter their names in a drawing for valuable prizes. If you are interested in taking up the challenge, you can pick up a geocache passport at any of the participating parks and sites, or download the passport at www.nysparks.com.
This cache contains a unique stamp which must stay with the cache. Use this stamp to stamp your passport. This stamp is NOT a trade item.
Parking available at the Route 50 tollbooth entrance. When Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) has concerts the parking lots can become extremely congested. To check on concert dates please see their calendar (visit link) Museum stickers, pens, passes, and rulers do not need to be replaced with other items.
This cache is located on Saratoga Spa State Park’s Wetlands Overlook Trail. This marshy trail is home to many native and invasive plants and animals. Once you reach the overlook you can walk out and see an abundant, tall reed growing in and around the water called Phragmites (frag-might-eez). This species is invasive but many of the species which live within it, such as blackbirds, are native to New York. Can you hear the red-winged blackbirds sounding out the “okalee” call to warn off other males?
The theme of this cache is the bottling plant which is located within Spa Park. Built in 1935 as a part of the Spa complex, it bottled four different kinds of water for over 40 years. Nowadays, the building is leased to the Saratoga Automobile Museum. Three of the waters which were bottled were mineral waters (Coesa, Hathorn and Geyser) and the fourth was a fresh spring water (State Seal). For adventurous souls, three of the four springs are still flowing and free to the public in Spa Park. State Seal and Geyser are located across from the former bottling plant/Automobile Museum under a pavilion (access this by using the non-tollbooth Route 50 entrance). Hathorn (which some locals think is the fountain of youth) is located by the parking lot where you will park to access this cache. If you have time, swing by the Automobile Museum to see a world-class display of cars old and new.
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