Gz for this location is the spot of one of the earlier caches in the area.... Back in 2009 , I accidently hid our first container close to this area, not knowing about distances at the time....Even then I figured out that it probably wasn't right to be that close to someone elses cache so I forgot about the container till this week.....The 2001 cache is long gone ,but I did find my container still hanging in the tree almost ten years later..Not in the best shape and unusable ,but still hanging around....This cache is in the vicinity of Livermore, Pennsylvania. It will be really hard to find this town on any map because Livermore is no more. The town was dismantled in 1950 to make way for the Conemaugh River Lake, a flood control project of the Army Corps of Engineers. The town was named in honor of Alonzo Livermore, an engineer for the Pennsylvania Canal (1828-1852) which was the lifeblood of the town's economy in its early days. Livermore was a town of considerable size, large enough to have been incorporated as a borough in 1863. There were more than 40 homes and businesses here. It’s all gone now. Directions: Take route 22 approximately 5 miles east from New Alexandria or 4 miles west from Blairsville to the intersection of routes 22 and 982. Go north from this intersection on Livermore Road for approximately 3 miles to a DEAD END at the entrance to the Livermore Cemetery. Are you scared yet? Begin your hike to the cache from here. You will want to locate a service road that leads to the cache. Attempts to shortcut will be defeated by a very dense thicket that grows just about everywhere in this area. It may very well be necessary to backtrack to locate the beginning of this trail which is not marked on any map. On your final approach to the coordinates, you will pass between hedgerows planted and maintained by the game commission for bird habitat. Please note that the game commision cuts the grass in this area only one time per year in the late summer or fall and it becomes quite overgrown in mid to late summer. Add one star each to the difficulty and terrain if you go looking for the cache in this season. Good Luck! .
This area offers excellent opportunities for hiking or biking...... There is a 3.3 mile trail on the 1907 grade of the Pennsylvania Railroad which crosses the Conemaugh River four times on impressive stone arch bridges.
Warning: The cache may occasionally be inaccessible after heavy rains or during the spring runoff due to it being within the area of the flood control reservoir. When the backwaters flood and the water level rises the location of the cache is an island.... The original hiding spot was an old inlet that lies about 40 feet beyond gz, but while visiting to hide this cache the high water lines of the flood waters could be seen through out the nearby woods and GZ had to be moved to higher ground.
Warning: Do not enter the Livermore Cemetery unless it is open to the public according to the schedule posted at the gate. It is not necessary to enter the cemetery to get to the cache. It’s not even in the right direction. The cemetery has suffered repeated vandalism due to its remote location and its reputation for being haunted. It is for this reason that visitation to the cemetery is restricted and trespassing is not tolerated. If the evil spirits, or devil-worshippers, or zombies don’t get you then the cops probably will.