This is one of ten caches placed for Cache Across Maryland 2022. You must find all ten caches prior to the picnic held on Saturday, May 14, 2022 in order to receive a free Maryland Geocaching Society CAM geocoin.
Make note of the attribute symbol found inside each cache container. You must enter all the symbols into an online decoder in order to print a claim form and receive your geocoin at the picnic. More info on CAM is available here.
Oregon Ridge Park
Oregon Ridge Park and Lodge is a 1,043 acre park tha has been owned and operated by Baltimore County Department of Recreation and Parks since 1969. The park offers a variety of recreational activities that are open to the public year round.
On the property comprising the present day Oregon Ridge Park and Nature Center, iron ore and marble stone were discovered in the 1830s. The following decade, Oregon Ridge became the site of a successful iron ore and marble mining operation. In order to process the iron ore efficiently and profitably, local entrepreneurs constructed an iron smelting furnace along what today is called Oregon Branch Stream. Extracted marble stone was used on site in the iron smelting process and to supply high quality building material for the construction of many private and institutional structures in Maryland and adjacent states.
To support the mining and iron smelting activities, an industrial village housing 250 people developed just to the north of the present location of Oregon Ridge Nature Center. Irish immigrants and emancipated slaves comprised the labor force that lived and worked in the town. Several of the original town buildings remain visible in the landscape today.
The cache you seek is off of an unmarked trail. It is also located near the oldest geocache in Baltimore county.
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