Jack Brook Memorial Horse Camp In Sam's Park Traditional Cache
Jack Brook Memorial Horse Camp In Sam's Park
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I’ve been hiking in Sam McDonald Park since my arrival in La Honda in November 1988. Since I started geocaching I’ve seen lots of places in the Park seeded with caches but nobody’s ever placed one at the Horse Camp. So today I fixed that.
The Horse Camp
“In 1976 the county acquired the land on which the horse camp is located. The acquisition made it possible to tie together other county parks that bordered it. These county lands were Sam McDonald Park and a 40 acre piece of timber on Alpine Road, a larger area, Pescadero Creek Park. It also tied into Memorial Park which is less than a mile from the northern end of Pescadero Creek Park.
The total acreage of the land now totals about seven thousand acres of county parks, plus a horse camp.
The land acquired from Peter Towne is the location of the Jack Brook Memorial Horse Camp. During the fourteen years since they acquired the Towne property and set up the camp, it has become a very popular place for horsemen to go for weekends and longer stays. This popularity has come about because of the trail system that embraces the adjoining parks.
The popularity is also due to the fine accommodations for horses and riders that have been installed by the County Recreation Commission and by County Riding Clubs and groups to make it one of the outstanding horse camps in the country. It is truly a great camp with wonderful trails, beautiful mountainous areas and very close to where riders reside.
These great facilities, that were added on to those which Towne had used in the operation of the property as a cattle ranch, complete a perfect setup for a horse camp.
Facilities that came with the property were a small cabin, horse box stalls, a machinery shed and garage, a small saddle shed, horse corral, a hay barn and feeding stanchions for cattle, a bull shed and corral, a corral for working and roping, corral for recreation, with all the necessary fencing dividing the various sectors.
Believe me, the entire family missed the ranch which we had owned since 1904. But we are very pleased to have made it available to the horsemen of the community to enjoy, as they seem to be doing.”
Excerpt from Forget-Me-Not Under The Redwoods by Kendall Bartley Peter Towne
The cache is not in the camp proper. As Mr. Towne pointed out in his book the place is incredibly busy most of the time so I placed the cache just outside the camp boundary to make it accessible no matter if the place is occupied. Bring a pen ‘cuz this is a little one. There's a Geocaching pin for FTF. Happy trails!
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