*Please use upper road (see waypoint) ☺️
This cache is part of the “GF125 Geocoin Challenge!” Find all 18 caches, fill in the code words on your “passport” and turn it in to the Grand Forks Visitor Centre for a trackable geocoin! Passports are available at the Grand Forks Visitor Centre, or here: https://discovergrandforks.ca/geocoin2022/
Visitor Centre Hours:
Tues to Fri 10 to 4
Sat 10 to 3
Closed all Stats
All caches placed with permission where required.
As always when out in the forests (as some caches will be placed on trails) please watch for wild animals such as Bears, Snakes, and Cougars.
Have fun, and enjoy all the Grand Forks area has to offer! ☺️
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The Cascade Cemetry is perhaps the last standing vestige of what was once Cascade City. The ghost town rose with the Columbia and Western rail line and faded away after a short-lived logging boom in the early 20th-century, according to Greg Nesteroff, West Kootenay historian and author of Black Press’s renowned Kootenay Place Names series.
Spanning roughly 4.5 acres below Stewart Creek Road, south of where Highway 3 meets Highway 395, the cemetery holds few graves marked by headstones, Nesteroff added. A search of the grounds using ground-penetrating radar showed 27 unmarked burials, according to the draft bylaw. Of these, 22 have been identified by the Cascade Cemetery Restoration Committee, which maintains the site. (*Laurie Tritschler- Grand Forks Gazette)