Arnold Family Forest Trail Traditional Cache
Arnold Family Forest Trail
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Nice path for a hike. This is one entry point - a dirt road off Staples Point Road.
The cache is under 1/4 mile from the trailhead / dirt road at ~26 Staples Point Road.
Barbara H. Arnold and her family made a gift of this wooded property at the end of December 2002. The property has been in the Arnold family for three generations with extensive frontage on Fogg Point and Staples Point Roads as well as on the Redding Creek feeding into Casco Bay. The family once owned over 200 acres on a point overlooking Casco Bay north of Portland, ME.
The property consists of two major forest types, an oak/pine forest type that is very prevalent in this region of the southern Maine coast and a red pine plantation. According to Mrs. Arnold, the plantation was established in the mid 60’s to fill in the runway of an airstrip which her husband, Duncan Arnold, had built in the 50’s. Mrs. Arnold’s husband owned the Caterpillar Tractor Dealership for Maine and flew for both business and pleasure.
Note that this writeup was plagiarised from the original NEFF writeup. I still haven't found the airstrip.
The stone walls suggest that the area was once used for agriculture well before the 1960's.
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