In my quest to revive geocaching at Butano State Park - geocaching is, by the way, listed as an Activity on the park website under Day-Use Activities - I headed back over to the hill to seek out the caches placed since my last visit and hopefully place some more. My hiking route was Six Bridges, Goat Hill and Doe Ridge Trails, Olmo Fire Road, Indian and Canyon Trails, then the Jackson Flats Trails to Butano Fire Rd and out on the Mill Ox Trail, a loop of something over 10 miles.
Looking for places to hide caches on my hike I paid special attention to junctions since it's easy to come up with the title for a junction cache, and they say every junction deserves a cache. Now the Ben Ries / Goat Hill trail junction has one. You are looking for a camo'ed pill bottle less than 3 feet from one of the trails. The junction is about a mile from the parking near the campground.
Butano State Park is a quiet, second-growth redwood forest gem of the Santa Cruz Mountains, slowly recovering from the 2020 CZU fire.
Park hours are 8am until sunset. State park entrance fee is currently $10 ($1 senior discount)
Closest parking to the loop is near the (currently closed) campground, or further out towards the entrance if you want to swing by Babbling Brook Bridge on the Six Bridges Trail.