Welcome to cache number four of the Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park series. There are eleven caches in this series. This series also is an effort to promote the Long Path. A number of the caches in the series are either on the long path or near to it. In ten of these caches you will get a number for the final coordinate. As a hint so you get the numbers in order follow the cache list below. This cache is along a connector trail in Thacher State Park and near section 35 of the Long Path. The closest parking is in the Paint Mine parking area (N42°39.107 W074°00.890). I would not recommend doing this cache when there is a lot of snow on the ground. Please put the container back in the same hiding spot you found it in. Congrats to Cully50 FTF
Follow this link to New York/New Jersey Trail Conference for the list of the sections of the Long Path.
As this series seems to be getting great reviews I have created a webpage devoted to the series. I included the background of how I came up with the series, explaining the connection to the Long Path, and a little background about Geocaching in the Albany, NY area. Follow this link to the webpage: Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park Geocaching Series.
Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park #1 (GC4AZJ2)
Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park #2 (GC4AMNC)
Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park #3 went missing twice so I archived it. The number you needed from it was 5, I will let you figure out if it is part of the North or West coordinate. I will put a new cache in another location by the end of August, that I will name the same as the archived one.
Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park #4 (GC4C63C)
Thacher State Park Travel Bug Hotel (GC4C649)
Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park #5 (GC4AMNT)
Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park #6 (GC4AZM5)
Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park #7 (GC4AZPF)
Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park #8 (GC4AZPZ)
Mine Kill State Park Travel Bug Hotel (GC4AZQV)
The final cache that you have to figure out the coordinates for:
Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park BONUS (GC4AZRF)
The hours and charges for Thacher State Park: Most of the parking areas are open dawn to dusk, in the winter the Overlook, Hop Field, Paint Mine, and Indian Ladder parking areas are open with no charge, during the summer you will have to pay to park in all parking areas except Hop Field and the Overlook parking.