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Alaska Mystery Cache

Hidden : 2/25/2023
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Cache is not at posted coordinates

 

This is one state that is part of the U.S.A. geoart.  Each state features an unusual but real name of a town in the state. Please consider giving a favorite point(s) to the one(s) you like the best!

 


 

Alaska: Chicken

N 41° 51.981' W 89° 18.000'

The remote community of Chicken, Alaska, was named by its founding gold miners in the late 1800s. Legend has it, the settlers wanted to name their new home Ptarmigan, after the partridge-like bird who roamed the area and provided sustenance. But it wasn’t the easiest word to spell, so they decided on the much simpler — and, in retrospect, sillier — Chicken. The tiny gold rush town is located between Fairbanks and the Yukon border. At its peak, 400 people called Chicken home, but these days, the population sits in the single digits most of the year.

 

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