You have found your awesome next adventure! Thank you for joining us for the “Visit Centre County” GeoTour as we show you some of our most favorite caching locations to include state parks, beautiful vistas, and historical points of interest! Our team of GeoTour planners have worked very hard to put together various cache types to keep the GeoTour interesting and challenging; however, no geocache should be beyond a 3/3.5 for terrain or difficulty! We are pleased to show you around our County and hope that you will enjoy the GeoTour and complete your passport to collect your custom GeoTour Geocoin (minimum number of caches required to receive coin)!
If you will be caching with some young ‘uns, we have a Jr. Geocaching Passport available for children, 12 yrs. and under, with a special prize for their hard work too! Caches will be marked as “family-friendly” and should correlate to the Jr. Geocaching Passport.
Download your “Visit Centre County” GeoTour passport and/or your Jr. Geocaching Passport or pick-up paper copies at the following coordinates: N 40° 48.879; W 077° 51.274 (Happy Valley Adventure Bureau). You’ll return your passport to the Happy Valley Adventure Bureau when complete and collect your prize if you meet the minimum requirements!
The “Visit Centre County” GeoTour is brought to you by Centre Region Parks and Recreation, the Happy Valley Adventure Bureau, and Groundspeak, Inc. We are pleased that you’ll be joining us in Happy Valley soon! Bring on the Adventures!
Cache Info.
“The Story” of Autumnwood Park changes all the time! That’s because, “The Story” is the “The Story Walk,” which was installed in 2019, the first of its kind in the State College Area.
Through a cooperative endeavor between the Schlow Centre Region Library, Centre Region Parks and Recreation, the Centre Foundation, and the Centre County Library and Historical Museum, the “Story Walk” of Centre County was created. There is a second “Story Walk located at Tri-Municipal Park in Centre Hall, and a third “Story Walk” will soon be developed.
The stories rotate across the “Story Walks” every so often. Start with Panel #1 and stroll to each numbered panel and read through each page of the children’s story! Exercise your body and your mind at the same time! “The StoryWalk Project was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, VT and developed in collaboration with the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. StoryWalk is a registered service mark owned by Ms. Ferguson.
Enjoy this wonderful community park as its trail meanders through the park’s edges connecting the neighborhood through several different entrances. There is a great playground here, a wonderful walking trail, soccer field, and basketball court. The small pavilion is also a great stop for some shade during the hot summer months!
This cache is available during regular park hours from dawn to dusk. There is no need to bushwack to the cache; please stay on the trails. At certain times of the year, stealth will be necessary to grab this cache. Cache is placed with permission of Centre Region Parks and Recreation, Permit #CRPR-2020-05-03.
Please bring a stylus; this container has room only for a logbook and a few small trinkets. 9/6/2020: There is a new container and a new ending location due to the original container being muggled. The new area is less of a play location than the original site.
Once at the posted coordinates, take a quick rest. To get the final location’s coordinates, take the first and last number in the year this Memorial Bench was presented and add them together and plug your answer into A; add all of the numbers together in the year this Memorial Bench was presented, and plug your answer into B.
N40 45.8A7 / W077 53.2B5
The first to find will receive a small personal signature item!