If This Stump Could Talk Traditional Cache

Cache is located in Hungry Mother State Park a short distance from Marion VA on state route 16.  Daily Parking Fees for Passenger Vehicles; Weekdays $3 Weekends $4. You will come to the upper end of lake just above the boat launch.

History of Hungry Mother State Park

John D. and Mildred Lincoln donated 1,881 acres to the state for the establishment of a state park in Smyth County on Hungry Mother Creek in 1933. Later that year the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) began construction of Hungry Mother and five other state parks. Roads, trails, picnic areas, cabins, a restaurant, bathhouse, dam and sanitation system were all built by the 600 CCC men at the park between 1933 and 1941. On June 15, 1936, the six-park Virginia State Park System was officially dedicated with public opening ceremonies at Hungry Mother State Park in Smyth County. More than 5,000 turned out to see the park as Governor George Peery and State Park Director Robert Burson officiated. Much of the land for Hungry Mother State Park was donated by local landowners to develop a new state park in Smyth County on Hungry Mother Creek. The park is one of six original Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) parks in Virginia that opened in June 1936. Partly because of role the CCC played in the park's development and architecture, the park is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

You will be looking for a large old sycamore tree stump that was probably a small tree left when the CCC men built this park and it was dedicated back in 1936. Two of the structures are still standing close to the cache site. The container is a black plastic tube used to store manuals on a tractor. Please replace the container after the smilie so others will have a good hunt.