Rules for this puzzle: No intentional red herrings, no oddball (fishiness) methods of presenting coordinates (UTM, for example, or also having coordinates read backwards), and no leaving off the N32 and W97 just to make it more difficult. There may be more than one layer on this puzzle. Collaboration is allowed and you may ask me for hints after there has been a FTF.
Although I am not a fan of red herrings, I am a huge fan of layers. Layers are where you add multiple levels of encryption in order to make the puzzle more challenging.
The below is an example of a puzzle with several layers. Now, normally a list of states is a VERY WIMP (what's in my pocket) subject. There is so much data you can accumulate about states that it makes it very challenging to deduce what you really need. In this situation, I've hidden a breadcrumb for you.
Breadcrumbs come in a variety of flavors. Often times it can be hidden in the HTML markup language of a cache page (right-click on a cache page and choose "view code" - scroll down until you see some of the text from this cache description... look around for bonus info). Periodically they are an odd word choice. Often times it can be the name of the cache or the background image. To sum things up, be on the lookout for those crumbs! Oh, and I gave you a couple of helpful links below too.
Puzzle Solving Tools - If I don't discuss a particular tool below in the paragraphs above, you may assume I did not use it for this puzzle; however, it may be useful for puzzles of similar style.
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
A NOTE TO PUZZLE COs: Be careful with layers. When working with layers it is important to leave breadcrumbs that guide the solver through each layer. Take this example: Lets say I have a list of colors that correspond to resistor color values (Red = 2). Then I take those resistor values and look up those sequential digits of pi (2nd digit of pi, after the period = 1). So, in this example, red now equals 1. This may seem simple to a CO, but 2 random combinations of anything becomes challenging - I've seen puzzles with 3 unknown layers and those are virtually impossible. As such, you have to provide some bread crumbs... Randomly talk about your favorite dessert, pie - it can be subtle, but give your solver something, anything, to work with.