Stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the St. Johns River, the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway occupies much of the land formerly known as the Cross Florida Barge Canal. This 110-mile corridor encompasses a variety of natural habitats and offers an array of trails and recreation areas where visitors can experience Florida's premier greenway.
This segment of the Cross Florida Greenway includes a variety of natural communities such as longleaf pine sandhill, mixed hardwood and conifer forests, and wet prairies on the western end. This region is also site of an historic sea level canal "digging". This feature is a wide linear area that was literally carved out of the landscape in the 1930s as part of the original sea-level ship canal project funded through the Works Progress Administration during the Depression. Today, they exist as reforested, small-scale valleys edged by tall reforested berms.
The caches are all along or close to hiking trails. There is little bushwhacking required.
On this section of trail there is a metal ladder that has fused with a tree. ?? There is no need to risk life and limb to find this cache (i.e.: stay off the ladder - who knows how old it is!)
Note: Due to heavy tree cover, gps accuracy is dismal here - the cache is within 8 ft. of the ladder.