Before the irrigation water came to the Quincy Valley, it was a dust bowl and some difficult times for farmers to make living before the irrigation water began to flow through the canals during the early to mid-1950’s. The primary crop was dry land wheat and some hay.
When Grand Coulee Dam was built the USBR also made provisions to distribute water from the Columbia River pumped up into Banks Lake and trough major canals into the Columbia Basin. With the water brought new crops. Dryland wheat that produced maybe 15-20 bushel to the acre to 60-80 bushel. Thanks to research from WSU new varieties were developed to yield over 150 bushels to the acre.
Quincy Valley is a large agriculture community. A vast different kinds of crops and be found growing here. Some of the major crops besides wheat are potatoes. (Fresh and processed) corn, (sweet a field) all kinds of seed crops, alfalfa and timothy hay, Orchards of apples of many different varieties and of recent grapes and many wineries.
Within the past few years, a totally new kind of farming hit the Quincy Valley. These new farms are DATA Farms where computer data is stored.
From the cache location you will have a great view of farmlands North and West of Quincy. Driving to this location you will drive amongst Apple orchards; field crops and you may drive past on of the larger data farms.
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.
GEOTOUR UPDATE
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.