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This cache is placed along the East Branch Rails to Trails. Parking is available on Main Street in Spartansburg, PA. Please replace container exactly as it was found.
The Pennsylvania Railroad originally built the Chautauqua Line as part of a network of rail lines that linked Corry, Titusville, Oil City, Franklin and Meadville during the boom days of the oil industry in Northwest Pennsylvania. Spartansburg, Glynden and Centerville were important depots in the network. Heading south out of Spartansburg, the rail corridor parallels the East Branch of Oil Creek, hence the trail name.
After its establishment in 1988, the Clear Lake Authority purchased the 15.4-mile disused rail corridor to provide public access to Clear Lake in Spartansburg. As of June 2011, only 3.1 miles of the old rail bed is opened from just north of Spartansburg to just south of the town. The trail is used by hikers, hunters, cyclists and horse-drawn Amish wagons. The flat East Branch is mostly ballast with some dirt. A small borough with a population of fewer than 300, Spartansburg is a commerce center to a sizable Amish community. Horse-drawn buggies and wagons are a regular site in town and occasionally on the trail, when the Amish use it as an alternative transportation corridor, deemed safer than the main highways.