Placed on Redbank Valley Trails (RVT) with permission. Trail is open dawn to dusk. This trail was PA's 2014 Trail of the Year. This cache shouldn't be hard to find. Terrain rating is due to the fact that you may be hiking/biking in from far off parking, but closest parking area is only about a half mile away at the coordinates given below.
What makes this place on the Redbank Valley Trail unique is the fact that the Baker Trail splits off from it here. At this point you can either leave the Redbank Valley Trail and follow the Baker Trail south through the woods on a tiny path or you can follow it as it runs along the RVT to the parking lot at Heathville, where it then follows the paved road for short distance before cutting north onto a woodsy path. The Baker Trail is 1 of 18 state-designated hiking trails within Pennsylvania.
The Baker Trail is a 132 mile long hiking trail in western Pennsylvania that runs from across the Allegheny River at Freeport, PA up to the north where it ends in the Allegheny National Forest north of the Cook Forest Fire Tower. The trail was named after Horace Forbes Baker, a Pittsburgh attorney who helped to restablish the Pittsburgh Council of Youth Hostels in 1950 after WWII. The trail mainly follows woodsy paths, old jeep trails, and dirt roads through woods and farmlands, and crosses or follows several creeks and rivers. Originally the Baker Trail started closer to Pittsburgh in Aspinwall, but too much urban developement over the years cut it off and caused that portion of the trail to be abandoned. Eventually the abandoned portion became part of what is now the Rachel Carson Trail.