This cache is a two-fold tribute to ingenious, industrious beavers and to clever (and sometimes diabolical) cachers who design challenging caches. This cache introduces a relatively new, official side trail off the Rail Trail. I've traveled it for years with my late geo-horse, and now (August, 2024) it is a fledgling mini-park, a project in progress. This cache is located in a scenic spot featuring a beaver dam and with button bushes across the water from it. You may need "a tool of the trade".; and, depending on the season, rubber boots.
RAIL TRAIL UPDATE: A lot has transpired since I hid the previous cache in this vicinity in 2002. About a year ago (I'm writing this is July, 2024) the City of Sanford banned motorized vehicles (ATVs, dirt bikes and such) with the exception of the portion that is Snowmobile ITS 89 during the winter (snowmobiles only) and declared the trail an official city park. Class 1 & 2 electric bikes and bona fide handicapped conveyances are allowed. Maintenance vehicles are allowed with permission/notification to the Parks & Rec Department. The Trails Committee is scheduling trail upgrades (delayed by the destruction from the early April 2024 storm) and will do as much as the City Trails Committee finances will allow each year until the Sanford/Lebanon Line is reached. Also, land abutting parts of the rail trail has been acquired by Three Rivers Land Trust (Sanford Community Forest) and the Mousam Way Land Trust (McKeon Reserve). Our network of trails is Springvale is expanding.