For your protection and the protection of others, please use gloves and/or hand sanitizer before and after handling each cache.
This cache is placed as part of the 2021 Taconic Region Geocaching Challenge. Please see BD1 for details about the challenge. This cache contains a unique stamp which must stay with the cache. Use this stamp to mark your passport. This stamp in NOT a trade item.
There are six caches scattered in all directions around the park. They are all "park and hike" meaning, park the car with a short hike to the cache. All but one of the caches placed at James Baird State Park are named after colleges in the surrounding area. Marist College is located in Poughkeepsie, NY Marist was founded in 1905 and has undergone extensive construction of the site to become the beautiful campus it is today. The college has approximately 4500 undergraduates, and 1000 graduate students.