Dam Beavers Letterbox Hybrid
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This cache is placed as part of the New York State Park Saratoga/Capital District Region Geocache Challenge. To find this cache, start your hike from our parking area at the end of Ryan Road. When you notice a location where beavers look like they have been active, you are getting close.
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.
This cache is in the Northern Trails zone of the park. This section of trails is the lesser known section of Thacher Park. There are no picnic areas here but plenty of wonderful Trails. The northern section of Thacher is comprised of approximately 800 acres; most of it purchased in 3 separate parcels. The land was first acquired by the Open Space Institute (OSI) and given to Thacher Park to manage via a management agreement. Subsequently, the land was sold to State Parks. These acquisitions started in 1999 and culminated in 2006 with the purchase of an additional 188 scenic acres along the Helderberg escarpment including High Point, one of the highest and most scenic locations on the escarpment. This final acquisition spurred a re-route of the Long Path, taking it closer to the escarpment to allow better views and a more scenic hike. The 150 mile Long Path trail starts near the George Washington Bridge in New Jersey and winds through the Catskills and Schoharie valley, ending just past high point in Thacher Park. The re-route was spearheaded by Fred Schroeder, a founding member of the Friends of Thacher Park and the benefactor of the Emma Treadwell Thacher Nature Center. In 2011, on the 10 year anniversary of the Nature Center, the red trail in the northern zone was renamed the Fred Schroeder Memorial Trail in honor of Fred.
To find this cache, start your hike from our parking area at the end of Ryan Road. When you notice a location where beavers look like they have been active, you are getting close.
The items in the cache that relate to the park are souvenirs that do not need to be replaced with a trade item.
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