This cache was moved from the old trading post because Arizona State Land Department ordered all geocaches be removed from state land. This simply tells the story of the old trading post.
The cache is located on the West side of Padre Canyon and you can not see or access the old Twin Arrows Trading Post from here. The cache is located next to the original alignment of the Old Trails Highway and first alignment of Route 66. Note the old surface of Macadam one of the earliest surface types using tar or asphalt.
The Twin Arrows Trading Post occupies a large parcel of land on the south side of Interstate 40. The main geological feature in this area is called Padre Canyon or Canyon Padre. As it is a narrow and deep canyon the motorist must be particularly alert to see it. The first trading post built just east of the canyon itself in the late 1940s was called the Canyon Padre Trading Post. It consisted of a single building until a pre-fabricated diner was added to the east. In 1954 new owners added two large "arrows" on the property to the west and renamed it the Twin Arrows Trading Post. A garage building was added as a third building at the rear. The two big arrows are actually two telephone poles sunk into the ground at an angle and the "feathers" and the "arrow head" were narrow box structures sheathed in plywood. The two arrows were painted and decorated to become quite colorful oversized facsimiles of Indian arrows visible a mile away in each direction. The Twin Arrows Trading Post operated until the late 1990s but has been closed and fenced off ever since.