There is nothing better than a good road trip: driving down the open road, eating at tiny roadside diners, going 150 miles out of the way to take a selfie in front of … the Peachoid water tower! Oh Say, can you see … me with the world’s largest frying pan?
This geotrail honors those unique, odd, bizarre, fun, historic, campy, weird, and just downright interesting roadside attractions in North and South Carolina. The caches aren’t meant to be hard, it is a power-trail after all. None of the caches are hidden at the posted locations - but answer the question correctly and you will have a working set of coordinates. All of the hides are preform bottles.
Patriots Point is the home of a Naval and Maritime Museum, the WWII aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, destroyer USS Laffey, and submarine USS Clamagore. The USS Yorktown has many exhibits on board including a Medal of Honor Museum, and 25 Naval aircraft ( A-4 Skyhawk, A-6 Intruder, A-7 Corsair II, F-4 Phantom II, F-9 Cougar, and F-14 Tomcat). Shore based exhibits include a Civil War era cannon, a Vietnam War era exhibit with US Navy UH-1 Iroquois helicopter, USMC AH-1 Sea Cobra helicopter, PBR-105 River Patrol Boat, and a Naval Support Camp.
The star of the museum is the USS Yorktown (CV-10) an Essex Class aircraft carrier built during WWII. She was named for the Revolutionary War Battle of Yorktown and was the fourth ship to bear that name. Originally named Bon Homme Richard, she was renamed Yorktown to honor USS Yorktown (CV-5) who was lost at the Battle of Midway in 1942. Yorktown was commissioned in April 1943 and participated in several campaigns in the Pacific, winning 11 battle stars and a Presidential Unit Citation. Decommissioned at the end of the war, she was modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950s. She was recommissioned too late to participate in the Korean War but served for many years in the Pacific, including duty in the Vietnam War, in which she earned five battle stars. Late in her career, she served as a recovery ship for the Apollo 8 space mission, and was used in the movie Tora! Tora! Tora! which recreated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; and in the science fiction film The Philadelphia Experiment. Yorktown was again decommissioned in 1970 and in 1975 she became a museum ship at Patriots Point. She is designated a National Historic Landmark and holds a spot on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Where can you explore the decks of the USS Yorktown?
A. Mt. Pleasant, SC - 639
B. Columbia, SC - 487
C. Greeleyville, SC - 129
D. Beaufort, SC - 820