The CAA (Cache Across the Avenues) DC Edition: This is a series of caches that will take you on a caching tour of all four quadrants of the District of Columbia. One cache will be hidden on each of the 50 State Avenues (actually 48 Avenues + a Street and a Drive). We are releasing them in batches of five with all 50 published by spring 2024. These caches each contain a code word that will lead you to one final cache (to be placed) located in our nation's capitol upon completion of the series.
About this cache: This cache is placed along Alaska Ave. in the Shepherd Park neighborhood. At GZ, you will be standing at a historic marker about a unique WWI memorial erected to honor the fallen from DC. There are only two remaining plaques from the original 507 placed.
Length of Avenue: .8 miles
Rank in Size: Tied for 73th (with Idaho, Kentucky, New Mexico and Wyoming Ave.)
Quadrants: NW
Facts about the Avenue:
- Alaska Ave. was built and named in 1911, before Alaska actually became a state or territory
- From a 1911 Washington Post article: “Cutting the tract from Georgia Avenue to Sixteenth Street will be a magnificent boulevard, to be known as Alaska Avenue. This avenue will run diagonally through the subdivision, and will make an unexcelled drive for automobiles and carriages."
- Northern most avenue in DC