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This is a puzzle geocache. There is no container or relevant information at the posted coordinates.
The United States has 63 National Parks. All of these parks have different beauty between each other. The oldest is Yellowstone (1872), and the newest is New River Gorge (2020). Each National Park has a 4 digit “Alpha Code.” The Alpha codes are made up of the first four letters of the park name. But if the park has more than one word, it takes the first two letters of the first two words. But there are some exceptions.
Examples:
1 word: Yosemite - yose
2 word: Petrified Forest - pefo
2+ word: Black Canyon of the Gunnison - blca
Exception: Carlsbad Caverns - cave
I will hide a geocache to honor all of these parks. I will do 6 groups of 10 caches. Each of these are a puzzle with 6 questions.
I used Wikipedia for this information, as it gives it all on one page. Also say in your log if you have been to this park. If you have, please post pictures.
This cache replaces the archived GC83PET nps - jeff that went missing. Since it was a unique container, I decided to archive it and replace with a new cache, in a spot close by (but not exactly the same).
FTF Prize:
This is 1 of 8 caches in nsearls25's nps series that were given away as FTF prizes at KCSearcher's GC8M906 - CCE: DeLorme Challenges + State County Challenges event. For those attendees that received this as a prize, they had an 8 day head start on those that didn’t attend the event. The prize winners were instructed to sign the log in the “Pre-Publication FTFer(s)” space.
However, for the FTF Hounds that were not able to attend, they too had the opportunity to be FTF on this cache after publication that was targeted for Sunday, November 6, 2022 @ or around 8:00 AM Pacific Time. All they had to do is find the cache and be first to sign in the “Post-Publication FTFer(s)” space on the log.
Thanks CarlottaP for helping check the puzzles.
The final container is at: N 37° 59.ABC W 122° 06.DEF
A. From my count, this is one of A National Parks where the main attraction in the park is man-made (along with Dry Tortugas, Mesa Verde, and Hot Springs) (Don’t overthink this question)
B. This is the fourth-newest National Park, established Feb 2B, 2018(As of October 2022 when this puzzle was published.
C. The arch was built between 1963 and 196C
D. Gateway Arch National Park is the smallest National Park, at D0.9 acres
E. The arch was built to commemorate the 180E purchase by Thomas Jefferson
F. The arch is 19F meters tall
Congrats to ____ for the Pre-FTF!
and Congrats to ____ for the Post-FTF!
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