Cherry Creek Trail is a 6-mile trail (12 miles round trip) up Cherry Creek Canyon of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Hike alongside the creek in spring to view a split waterfall about 2-3 miles in.
The trail starts at the trailhead parking lot at Cherry Peak Ski Resort east of Richmond. You’ll enter Mt. Naomi Wilderness Area very near the cache location. I haven't hiked the full trail, just to where the trail becomes a single track (about 0.1 miles beyond the cache), but online sources rate the full trail as difficult. Other hikers report the trail crosses the stream several times (on bridges). A sign at the trailhead at the time of cache placement warns that this is bear country.
The cache is located in a rocky area a short, steep climb just off the side of an old canyon road where the trail first comes close to Cherry Creek. Some bushwhacking is needed. Approach from the west for easier footing, but watch out you don't trample what looks like a lot of wild tulips or lilies!
Congratulations to grumpywombat, who braved the surprise spring snowstorm for the FTF!
This cache is part of the series, MountainHobbit's Mathoms, Year 14. Don't know what a mathom is? Check out Chapter 1 in the Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien to find out the reason for this hobbity celebration!