Skip to content

Cooke's Wagon Road HM Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

HighCountryAdmin: I am archiving this defunct geocache to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair or replace the cache sometime in the future, please contact me via my profile, and assuming it still meets the guidelines, I will be happy to unarchive it.

Thank you,
HighCountryAdmin
Volunteer Cache Reviewer

Geocaching Guidelines: http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx
Geocaching Knowledge Books: http://support.groundspeak.com/Support/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=view&parentcategoryid=5&nav=0

More
Hidden : 5/25/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

Join now to view geocache location details. It's free!

Watch

How Geocaching Works

Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions in our disclaimer.

Geocache Description:

Cooke's Wagon Road Historical Marker & Basin and Range Country Historical Marker(opposite side).  Cache is in the westbound rest area.

Cooke's Wagon Road Historical Marker- In 1846, while leading the Mormon Battalion to California during the Mexican War, Lt. Col. Philip St. George Cooke blazed a wagon road from New Mexico to the West Coast. The Potential use of the route for the railroad construction was one of the reasons for the Gadsden Purchase in 1853. Cooke entered Arizona though Guadalupe Pass.

On the opposite side..........

Basin and Range Country- basin and Range province of southeast New Mexico is of broad alluvial plains from which isolated fault block mountains rise like islands in a sandy sea. Indigenous peoples have used both the basin and range in their seasonal cycle. The Victorio Mountains to the south yield zinc, silver, gold, copper, lead, and tungsten.

 We bring your attention to the historical marker, however, cache is a couple hundred feet away from the marker in order to preserve it from muggles.  It is a cap-tube, along the back fence line, under a small rock pile. Log only- bring your own pen

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Nf jvgu nyy bs bhe uvqrf, ybt n QAS naq rznvy hf sbe n uvag. Jr jvyy or zber guna unccl gb uryc! Unccl Uhagvat!

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)