Double Header Multi-Cache
JerseyEric: Archiving this multi to free up space in the park for other hides.
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Both stages of this multi-cache are in Phillips Park, home to two ballfields, two giant satellite dishes, and now two stages of this multi-cache. The cache and log are at the 2nd stage. There is no need to go past any chain-link fences at the park's edges. Long pants suggested in case of poison ivy!
You are on the hunt for the first cache, an unusual micro which conceals the co-ordinates for the second stage, which is the final cache. The container for the 1st stage lays on the ground but isn't a stone. The 2nd stage container is a mega bison tube big enough for geocoins.
Congratulations to dodetrexer and blitznmore for sharing the FTF and helping me refine this cache listing. Each received a FTF PathTag prize!
Phillips Park is in Holmdel off of Telegraph Hill Road. It is not in Telegraph Hill Park. The woods behind Phillips Park border the Garden State Arts Center (a.k.a. PNC Arts Center), but there is no need to go to the Arts Center to find to this cache.
About Phillips Park
This municipal park features a softball field, lighted baseball field, basketball courts, backstops for handball or tennis practice, picnic tables, and short hiking trails surrounded by a ring of tall, lush trees. The six-mile long Ramanessin Brook Greenway begins here, though I am not certain if you can start hiking the greenway from that point.
Phillips Park was formerly the control center for the U.S. Army's Nike Missile Battery 54. A handful of military people worked and lived here to support the Nike missiles guarding New York Harbor. For the past decade I believed -- incorrectly -- that the missiles were once deployed in the ground at Phillips Park. But the missiles had been housed elsewhere in Holmdel in an area that now belongs to Holmdel Park near the tennis courts.
The only visible remnants from the U.S. Army base today at Phillips Park may be the handball court, chainlink fencing, and the large satellite structures which had been used as antennas in conjunction with a complex anti-aircraft defense system used prominently in most major American cities throughout the mid-1950s until the mid-1970s.
Additional Hints
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Fgntr 1: Ragre jbbqf ng frjre qenva, tb 12 srrg cnfg phyireg naq ghea yrsg. Ybbx ba tebhaq arkg gb n ybt. Fgntr 2: Ol n abgvprnoyr cnve.
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