Milparinka is a gold mining ghost town a short distance off the Silver City Highway in northwestern New South Wales, about 300km north from Broken Hill. Gold was discovered in 1880. In Milparinka, apart from the ruins, there are two houses, the Albert Hotel, a modern caravan park and the heritage precinct, a complex of modern museum buildings located around the 1883 Police Barracks and cell block, the 1896 Courthouse and the 1901 Post Office. Admission to the heritage precinct is $10 for adults with free admission for children. The heritage precinct and the caravan park are staffed by volunteers and managed by a local community organisation, the Milparinka Heritage and Tourism Association, which has authorised the placement of the geocache. I installed this cache during a two-week stint as the volunteer staffing the heritage precinct but the chair of the Milparinka Heritage and Tourism Association (a local grazier) will be responsible for ongoing maintenance.
This cache is out the front of the Courthouse at a memorial honouring the people of the Albert goldfields. It is not hidden inside any heritage structures. Please respect the heritage structures of Milparinka. If you come during winter, please be discrete because there will be people about. If you come between November and March, you will, most likely, have the place to yourself. So come, visit Milparinka, learn a little of the history, maybe stay the night in the caravan park or hotel and enjoy a little geocaching while you are here.