The WSGA’s 20th Anniversary GeoTour will end on December 31, 2024, at 11:59pm PT.
You will only have until this date and time to find the geocaches, post all of your logs for the digital souvenirs (if qualified), and submit all of your passports of unique codes for the geocoins (if qualified). There will be no exceptions.
With all that said, cache on!
Welcome to the Bridge of the Gods and Skamania County
This is WSGA Southwest Chapter cache #18 in the 2022 WSGA GeoTour. Welcome to the Bridge of the Gods. It is located at the Skamania County Satellite Visitor Information Site just north of the Washington end of the Bridge of the Gods. This site offers easy parking, historical info signs and nice views of the Bridge of the Gods and the Columbia River Gorge.
Enjoy this easy cache find and remember to write down and save the Code Words found inside the cache on the cap of the container. You will need those code words later to complete your GeoTour Passport.
There is an unactivated travel tag for the FTF prize.
Enjoy the views and then continue happily on Hwy 14 to your next WSGA 20th Anniversary GeoTour target!
Why is it Named "Bridge of the Gods"?
"In the heart of the Columbia River Gorge, a 1,858-foot-long steel-truss bridge spans the Columbia River at Cascade Locks, about thirty miles east of Vancouver. The Bridge of the Gods, first built in 1926, derives its name from a much larger Bridge of the Gods that covered a part of the Columbia River in about 1450 AD. The earlier “bridge” was a blockage caused by the Bonneville Landslide, which headed on the southern escarpment of the 3,417-foot-high Table Mountain on the Washington side of the river and cascaded downward, filling the Columbia River valley with more than five square miles of debris up to 400 feet thick". (from article by Jim O'Connor at OregonEncyclopedia.org)
In September 2002, a group of 19 concerned geocachers scheduled a meeting after hearing that the Washington State Parks was considering banning geocaches in the state park system. Out of this meeting, the Washington State Geocaching Association (WSGA) was "born" with its core values of promoting geocaching as a fun, family-oriented outdoor activity that increases awareness and appreciation of the environment and our parks and trails, provide opportunities for participants to enjoy geocaching and to socialize with other geocaches, educate park systems and land managers about geocaching and its benefits, increase awareness and support of the geocaching through interaction with other outdoor groups and the public, encourage low-impact geocaching and promote stewardship of our natural resources, and support "Cache In Trash Out" activities to help maintain parks and trail systems.
In 2022, the WSGA turns 20 years young. To celebrate this milestone, the WSGA is hosting a 20th-anniversary GeoTour. This GeoTour will give you the opportunity to travel to all corners of the Evergreen State while you search for 140 GeoTour caches. To make it easier to tackle such a large GeoTour, each of our 7 regional chapters will host a bite-sized GeoTour consisting of 20 GeoTour caches with the entire GeoTour consisting of 140 caches. To learn more about our GeoTour, please visit the GeoTour page on our website which you can find HERE. We hope that you enjoy getting back out on the road while touring around Washington State. If you have any questions about our GeoTour, you can reach out to us via the contact tab on our website.
