The Pine Tree State GeoArt series will take you on a short trip not far from Stratton. The road is passable by most cars, but bikes and e-bikes are fine too. There is also about a mile or so of walking. Each cache will highlight something interesting about Maine.
Moxie Falls
With a single vertical drop of nearly 90 feet, Moxie Falls in Moxie Gore near The Forks, is one of Maine's highest waterfalls and a spectacular sight in any season. A number of closely related sedimentary and metamorphic rock types comprise The Forks Formation. These include thinly bedded silty limestone, calcareous (limy) siltstone, sandstone, and phyllites. The limier beds often contain abundant fossilized fragments of crinoids, which help establish the Silurian age of the unit. In this area of Maine, metamorphism is fairly weak such that many of the primary sedimentary features are still preserved in the rocks. A few thin granitic dikes intrude The Forks Formation at the falls and elsewhere along Moxie Stream.
Source: Some Geological Features at Moxie Falls, Text by Robert Marvinney
If Moxie Falls has fossils, the cache is at: N 45° 11.199′ W 70° 21.253′
If there are no fossils in Maine, the cache is at: N 45° 11.105′ W 70° 21.205′