This Letterbox Hybrid cache contains a stamp and ink pad. You can stamp your book with them. You can stamp the log with your stamp. Also ~ you can sign the log. Remember to leave the cache stamp and ink pad in the cache for all the future cachers to use. Hike the Ghost Town Hiking and biking trail at Blacklick to access this Letterbox Hybrid cache. Please be conscious of muggles! This hide is very close to the trail and there are plenty of hikers, runners, cyclists and deer (although I've never seen a deer muggle a cacher before, you never know...) who use this trail everyday! Please re-hide the cache as well as or better than found, and please don't take the stamp, thanks and enjoy! BEWARE OF HUNTERS DURING THE OPEN SEASONS...WEAR YOUR ORANGE TO BE SAFE Please be conscious of muggles and re-hide the cache as well as found.
Do not remove the stamp it stays with the geocache, thank-you and enjoy!
The 44-mile-long Ghost Town Trail linking Blairsville and Ebensburg has been named Pennsylvania’s 2020 Trail of the Year by an advisory committee to the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
The Ghost Town Trail, like so many rail trails throughout Pennsylvania, captures the spirit of an industrial past and the promise of a recreational future.
The Ghost Town Trail and its crushed limestone surface is designated as a National Recreation Trail by the U.S. Department of the Interior. It was chosen Trail of the Year by DCNR’s Pennsylvania Trails Advisory Committee in its bid to help build enthusiasm and support for both large and small trails, as well as public awareness about the value of the state’s trail network.
The trail’s establishment and development over the past 25 years is a testament to the shared effort and vision of many partners who have contributed to the trail’s success and popularity.
The Ghost Town Trail derives its name from seven mining towns — and an early Welsh settlement — that once existed along the railroad corridor.
Wehrum in Buffington Township, the largest of the former towns, once had 230 houses, a hotel, company store, jail and bank. It was established in 1901 in the vicinity of a Lackawanna Iron & Steel Company mine. That mine was sold to Bethlehem Steel in 1922 and closed in 1929. The town was abandoned in 1934.
Today the trail is part of the Trans Allegheny Trails network and is maintained by Indiana County Parks & Trails and its Ebensburg counterpart, the Cambria County Conservation & Recreation Authority.
The trail was established in 1991 when the Kovalchick Salvage Co. donated 16 miles of the former Ebensburg & Blacklick Railroad to Indiana County. Two years later, the Cambria & Indiana Railroad donated an extra four miles from Rexis to White Mill Station. In 2005, more mileage was added in Indiana and Cambria counties.
Today, there’s the 32-mile main stem from Blacklick to Ebensburg, the four-mile Rexis branch from Vintondale to Route 422, and the 8-mile Stritty’s Way from Route 422 to Expedite Road. At Vintondale the trail divides and follows two branches of Blacklick Creek