This cache is placed on top of the Beare Road Landfill, in Rouge national urban park. Please respect others, wildlife and plants while finding this geocache. Always respect park rules.
Trails:
There are many trails leading up to this cache, take your pick, or hike them all! This hill is visble from the Cedar, Orchard and Vista trails.
The Cache Itself:
You are looking for a vitamin container (a bit smaller than a peanut butter container). The cache is loaded with swag. The log itself may be a bit hard to extract, so tweezers may be needed.
A bit of history on the landfill:
The landfill started out as a commercial gravel pit in the 1940s. Gravel and sand, deposited by ancient glacial lakes and rivers, was extracted for the construction of highways throughout the area. After the gravel was exhausted, the site was converted into a landfill, which operated from 1967 to 1983. Several ideas were proposed for the site after the landfill closed, which included giving the land to the zoo and creating a ski hill, but none of these plans were actually carried out. In 1996, a landfill gas collection system was built to collect methane from the decomposing garbage and convert it into electricity.
Restoration work was also carried out to promote plant growth and conservation groups helped plant trees and shrubs on the site. The land to the west, which was excavated to cover the landfill site, was converted into a wetland area, which is now home to a diverse array of frogs, turtles, birds, and other animals. You can visit these beautiful restored wetlands while hiking on the Cedar and Orchard trails.
Why are you still reading? Go get this cache!