Welcome to Livingston County’s Bicentennial GeoTrail!
My name is Find R. Fox. I’ll be your guide to super-sleuthing the hides at these amazing, historical locations all around our beautiful 200-year-old county!
To make your travel through history a bit easier, imagine yourself in a Time Machine (your best mode of transportation will do). Set the dial (your gps unit) to the first year (coordinates) listed below, check the waypoints for Parking and push the navigate button! Whirl your way there then switch your coordinates as needed to navigate to the geocache to sniff out the container and sign the log sheet. Good Luck & Enjoy the journey!!
According to the web-site, this park is open January 1- December 31 during the following hours: Daily from 6:00 am until 10:00 pm. (The green sign near the entrance-way may be the original and be out of date.)
WAIT A MINUTE! VISIT THE ALPS? No, visit the ALP, where ALP stands for Al Lorenz Park. ;-)
NOTE: cache moved on 4/4/23. Please make sure you have the updated coordinates!
The area that comprises Al Lorenz Park was part of the original land of the Murray family who purchased what is known as the Murray Hill Campus in Mt. Morris. Once a sprawling gentlemen’s estate overlooking the high banks of the Genesee River, it was owned by several prominent people throughout the 19th century and into the 1920s. The land was conveyed to the State of New York for a tuberculosis hospital that opened in 1936. The adjacent parkland, with a pond, trails, and a rustic log cabin, was utilized as a recreational area primarily for the TB hospital staff and their families.
When the TB hospital closed in 1971, Murray Hill was transferred to Livingston County. The county renovated the hospital and surrounding buildings to house several county departments and agencies. After much debate, the county decided to dedicate the park area of over 80 acres as Livingston County’s first park in 1974.
In 1983, the park was named in honor of the first park supervisor, Al Lorenz, who dedicated the later part of his life to the preservation, beautification, and expansion of the park for the public to enjoy.
Livingston County has continued to improve the park with pavilions, picnic areas, bridges, scenic trails, and modern restroom facilities. Most recently, a new playground and sports field have been added to enhance what is often referred to as a “hidden gem.”
Historic Cache info: On 10/6/2007, KillerB hid a multi-cache here and called it AL LORENZ PARK CACHE, GC16F4V. It received the “Best Multi-Cache of 2007” Award by GeoRoc.org. For more information about Al Lorenz, please give it a read. In 2018, Livingston County started working on the park, clearing areas around the pond, and in the process, removing the log that had lain there for many years which had also hidden the devious first waypoint of this multi-cache. Thus, the first cache in this park was archived 10/11/2018.
This cache is hidden not far from one of these walking trails. Please stay on the trails as long as reasonably possible. Trails are marked with blue triangles with the letters ALP on them. For a general map of the park, which does not include the walking trails, see https://www.livingstoncounty.us/DocumentCenter/View/579/AL-Lorenz-Park
Thanks to Lucky46 for his assistance with this hide!
Thanks to Bill Mann, Deputy County Superintendent, for his permission to place this cache in this park!
This cache is 1 of 36 caches comprising the Livingston County Bicentennial GeoTrail (LivCo200) placed in the summer of 2021 in honor of Livingston County’s Bicentennial by members of the local geocaching group called the Bee Hive. For more information about Livingston County’s Bicentennial, visit the County Historian’s Bicentennial web page on the Livingston County New York website at https://www.livingstoncounty.us/1115/County-Bicentennial
