This Cache is placed as part of the 20255 New York State Park Central Region Geocache Challenge. There are approximately 80 geocaches hidden within 22 state parks and historic sites in this parks region, the first 150 people to find 45 or more caches will receive a special geocache challenge coin. If you are interested in taking up the challenge, you can pick up a geocache passport at any of the participating parks and sites or download it at https://parks.ny.gov/documents/parks/VeronaBeach2025GeocacheChallenge.pdf
NYS Parks Saratoga - Capital region and the Taconic region will be hosting a similar challenge!! 10 caches found in the Sara-Cap and/or Taconic region Challenge can be used toward the Central Challenge. Thousand Island Region may join us this year as well.
Be sure to check each park or site's unique web page for possible trail maps and other facility specific information. parks.ny.gov The park is open year-round sunrise to sunset.
Bring a GPS with you, or download the caches before you leave home as many of our beautiful State Parks/ Historic sites have limited or no cell service!!!
This cache contains a unique stamp which must stay with the cache. Use this stamp to mark your passport. This stamp is NOT a trade item.
Oquaga Creek State Park offers a 55-acre Arctic Lake where anglers can fish for black bass, bullheads and rainbow trout. The rolling, wooded hills are ideal for winter sledding. Winter visitors can also ice fish on the frozen lake and snowshoers and cross-country skiers can explore ten miles of trails.
Last year if you made it up the hill along the red trail, you might not have gotten this far from the
parking lot. This year, you are closer to the barn than you would’ve been last year. By navigating
an evolving forest-on-the-hill neighboring a field featuring an old barn foundation, you could
discover some wildlife but certainly not anything futuristic. Feel free to explore the area before
and/or after finding the cache. The 4.5 terrain rating is due to the distance and the change in
elevation in addition to the possibility of obstacles on the way to and/or from the cache in
regards to the environment in which you will be hiking in.