Quick cache and dash. Parking is available around the perimeter of the fire department grounds. Please do not block the garage doors or the drive.
This cache has been placed with verbal permission from the fire chief.
Good news! For 2018, we upgraded our geotrail to an official Geocaching GeoTour! Learn more about Pennsylvania's Clearfield County GeoTour, which offers a series of 5 related geocaching adventures: Forgotten Clearfield, Hometown Heroes, Waterways, Cemeteries, and Parks and Recreation. Codes are hidden within each cache. Collect 25 codes from across all 5 series and you qualify for a collectible prize. If you complete all 5 and have your passport validated, you can receive a trackable geocoin.
This cache is with the 2014 CCGT Hometown Heroes Geotrail. Use your CCGT passport to collect 25 codes found within each cache to redeem for your 2014 CCGT geocoin. Visit www.visitclearfieldcounty.org/outdoors/geotrail for more information about the Clearfield County Geotrail, passports, geocoins, and previous Geotrails that are still open.
Clearfield County is home to 31 Volunteer Fire Depts, several Emergency Medical Services, and is full of “hometowns” who have taken the time to honor their fallen and living veterans through monuments.
Come & cache Clearfield Co. to learn about all the men and women of the armed forces, fire personnel and EMT’s who voluntarily enlisted themselves to serve the citizens of the U.S., the state of PA and their hometowns of Clearfield Co. with honesty, faith, compassion, courage and integrity and to uphold the Laws of the Constitution of the United States of America.
The firefighters of this little hamlet serve multiple smaller areas that are between Westover, Glen Campbell and Cherry Tree. The piece of equipment at GZ was thought to have historical significance, but the fire chief related hysterical information. Seem as though it simply came from a donated truck that they refurbished into a fire truck, they pitched it where it sits now and just haven't gotten around to moving it.
After you get the smiley here, travel east through Burnside proper and you will see a military monument near the railroad tracks honoring 10 conflicts and wars. Also here sits a stone monument honoring the lumbermen and raftsmen of the Susquehanna River.