This is a Bonus Cache placed for your enjoyment and is NOT part of the 2022 Taconic Region Geocache Challenge. Please see JJ1 for details on the challenge.
John Jay, arguably the most important Founding Father born in New York, retired to a 760-acre farm in Bedford after a 27 –year career in public service. The house remained in the Jay family for five generations. Today, Jay’s retirement home, several other buildings dating to his time on the property and 62 acres of his farmstead comprise John Jay Homestead State Historic Site.
The trailhead coordinates will take to a 19th Century ice pond. Ice was cut from the pond in the winter and stored in an ice house, which no longer exists. The ice was used to chill milk for shipping to New York City. Follow the path beyond the pond, then turn toward the cache. You will be on a trail often used by horses, so watch where you step.
(The main house is closed this year for installation of a fire suppression system and restoration work.)