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Arizona 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!

 


 

Arizona: Why

N 41° 51.769' W 89° 18.192'

It sounds like a contemplative choice, but Why was actually named, quite simply, after the letter “Y.” Two major highways, State Routes 85 and 86, originally met in a Y-shaped intersection in the tiny southwestern Arizona town, which is located about 30 miles north of the Mexican border. State law dictated that all city and town names be made up of at least three letters, so the area’s local nickname, the Y, was spelled out. The town later replaced the unconventional interchange with a standard T-intersection, but the meditative moniker remained.

 

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