Come for the caches.
Stay for the trails.
Fred Crabtree Park is a great park for a fun hike. If you want a little elevation change, you can find it. If you want some stream time, it's there. If you want peace and quiet, stay away from the stream.
Permission to place this cache was granted by Wayne L. Brissey, Manager Area 6, Fairfax County Park Authority on 4/13/2023.
Cache is available from dawn to dusk per FCPA rules.
CACHE SPECIFIC INFO
You're looking for a Black Plastic 7" x 3" x 3" Scuba Diving Waterproof Cylindrical Dry Box.
This thing better keep the log dry!
Please place back in same position as discovered.
BYOP.
The container has a little room for small swag and is initially populated with:
- The Tick Key®-Green (Great for GeoPups and CacheHounds)
- Compass Zipper Pull
- Signal the Frog® Baseball Pin
- Earth Marble w Geocaching Logo (my favorite)
- Matchbox Convertible
FTF Honors go to Serrabou who snagged the find and the Earth Marble in less than an hour of publishing!
WHY FRED CRABTREE?
Park Geocachers can thank Fred Crabtree, a citizen member of the FCPA Board from 1969 to 1992, for his visionary leadership in the area of land acquision. Crabtree made it his mission to acquire parkland and was instrumental in the acquisition of land for Fox Mill District Park (which was renamed Fred Crabtree Park in 2006), Peterson Lane Park, Nottoway Park, Frying Pan Farm Park, Clarks Crossing Park, the Floris School Site, Baron Cameron Park, Lahey Lost Valley Park, Lake Fairfax Park and numerous others.
For more Fred Crabtree information:
- FCPA Our Stories and Perspectives article: Fred Crabtree: One of A Kind
- Patch article Remembering 'Mr Baseball' by Bill Bouie on 3/14/2012
- WAPO article Fred Crabtree, Vienna’s ‘Mr. Baseball,’ hangs ‘em up at 96 by Tom Jackman on 3/15/2012
- HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 5003 Celebrating the life of Frederick M. Crabtree, Sr.
Fred Crabtree
(November 23, 1915 - March 11, 2012)
"So long Mr. Baseball. Thanks for all our parks."