This cache is here to replace the many times muggled ‘Old Rath Homestead’ further up the path, although the coordinates are somewhat off. It’s is now near the ‘Nature Centre’.
You are standing on a historic nineteenth-century homestead, established by Irish gold prospector, William Rath, and his young family in 1886. A popular provincial park, Rathtrevor preserves a number of relics of the Rath family’s settlement which began in a simple log cabin and ended in a twentieth-century residence. Structures and landscape features are surviving examples of endeavours of early agriculture which provided subsistence for many families in the area from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a means of earning supplementary income. The Rath family began to allow recreational use of their land, known then as “Rathtrevor Campground”, and on April 20, 1967, the site was added to the Provincial Park system. BYOP and beware of the muggles.
This cache was placed in full compliance with the BC Parks geocache guidelines.