This cache is located along the North Boone Trace Trail very near the entrance to the park campground.
You are searching for a small storage container with room for a few trade items. As always, bring your own writing instrument and replace as found.
Boone Trace Trail
Levi Jackson Wilderness Road Park, owned by the City of London, is crossed by portions of both the Wilderness Road (which more or less follows present-day KY 229) and Boone Trace.
Boone Trace Hiking Trail “North” section begins at McHargue’s Mill and the Defeated Camp along the Little Laurel River on the park’s west side, then winds behind park cabins and main picnic area until reaching the group camping area. The “South” section continues a short distance away just past the miniature golf course, where it turns back into the woods, passes behind the maintenance area, until reaching the park swimming pool off KY 229, where visitors can enjoy a nice one-mile loop.
Boone Trace & Wilderness Road
Boone Trace was the first “road” opened into what would become Kentucky. It was essentially nothing more than a steep, rough and narrow dirt path that could only be traversed on foot or horseback.
Carved out by legendary explorer Daniel Boone and his party of 35 trailblazers during March and April 1775, the route was created for the specific purpose of introducing settlers to the new western lands. The route led from Long Island in Kingsport, TN, across the Cumberland Gap, into the heart of Kentucky – following an older hunting trail known as Skagg’s Trace – to where a pioneer settlement was established at Boonesborough. Prior to Boone Trace, there were only animal (primarily buffalo) and Native American trails.
With an increase in traffic on Boone Trace, the government realized that there was a need for a more substantial, permanent road. In 1792, the Kentucky legislature provided money to upgrade the road for wagon and carriage travel. The improved route became known as the Wilderness Road.
”No other trail is of greater historical significance to the founding of Kentucky and opening of the west. The trail was used in the Revolutionary war as the western supply line to defeat the British. By 1792, when Kentucky became a state, approximately 200,000 settlers had passed over the trail.” - Flat Lick, KY, historical marker.