This is pretty much a park and grab cache hide. You could park along Canyon Lakes Rd for a quick find or better yet, enjoy the area and hike from the parking across from the restrooms or from parking at the dam along Canyon Lakes Rd.
This letterbox hybrid has a log and stamp for the letterboxing crowd. New to letterboxing? Visit letterboxing.com for more information. Please do not remove the stamp, stamp pad or letterbox logbook. The geocache has its own logbook.
NOTE: Be careful of the cactus plants along the trail and cache. Those plants would not make this hide suitable for small children. Watch out for animals that sting and bite. Rattlesnakes have been spotted along these trails.
Letterbox (LbNA #77405) instructions:
Directions: From the Martin Luther King Jr Blvd turn East on Canyon Lake Dr towards the Dunbar Historical Lake. After about ¾ of a mile you will observe the Canyon Lakes East Parking Lot on the right and a restroom on the left. Immediately after passing the restroom begin counting the light post on the right. Park on the side of the road about 100 feet past the 10th light post.
Instructions: On either side of the road you will observe something very similar to merlons and crenels. Head towards the ones on the Left side of the road and step onto the concrete pad.
Take a couple of steps to a path and turn left.
You will be facing a fork in the trail. Take the fork.
Continue on the trail 175 feet to the next fork. Be sure that you choose the “right” trial at this fork.
For the next 125 feet, walk up and over a small hill and back down to a small creek bed where you will observe medium size trees and a Prickly Pear cactus on your right. Take a few steps past the cactus (don’t get stuck) where you’ll find the letterbox container hidden behind the truck of the larger tree.
The Letterbox material in inside a large ziploc bag inside a plasic ammo can which also holds the logsheets for a geocache of the same name.
Congratulations to Britlo1989 for their first FTF.