This Cache is placed as part of the Summer 2025 Taconic Region Geocaching Challenge. Find 45 challenge caches in the Taconic Region and stamp your passport to earn a trackable geo-coin. The NYS Parks Saratoga-Capital Region and the Central Region will be hosting a similar challenge, and ten caches found in the Sara-Cap and/or Central Region Challenge can be used toward the Taconic Challenge. 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.
Please visit the Taconic Region webpage to find the Geocaching Passport.
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About Phillipse Manor Hall: Dating back to the 1680s, Philipse Manor Hall sits near the confluence of the Nepperhan (Saw Mill) and Hudson Rivers, the site of a Munsee Lunaape village. Used by four generations of the Philipse family and worked by the people they enslaved and European tenant farmers, the Philipse Manor was once over 200,000 acres and helped make the Philipse family the richest in New York.
About this cache: You are looking for an unknown style container. Pay attention to where you grab it from... the bottom part should stay put, and you'll have the top part in your hand. Twist the top to open, access the log and the stamp. After signing and stamping, put the lid back on and put the top part back on the bottom part. No need to go through the gate. There is off-street PMH parking at the posted parking coords.