Throughout 2025, I held monthly park cleanup efforts in the nine county parks around Allegheny County. Those efforts helped reduce the amount of garbage significantly that could seen around the various shelters and roads. Depending on how many people showed up for these efforts resulted in the number of bags full of litter that we gathered. A couple events, the number of bags far exceeded the number of people who attended. These CITO’s began in March and continued until the beginning of December. Some numbers for various county park cleanups for 2025. 52 cachers showed up for the 9 park cleanups. Those 52 people gave 104 volunteer hours for helping in the county parks. We removed 50 or so bags of garbage in total in these cleanup efforts. If you look at these numbers, those are some impressive numbers that we all put in to make our parks a better place.
Now, for what everyone is waiting for. What do you need to solve for the puzzle to get to the cache that was put out for these cleanups. To solve this cache, you will need to put the park cleanups in chronological order, matching the park to the shelter that the CITO was held. You will need to visit my geocaching.com profile, search for CITOs and locate the 9 different CITOs that I held in 2025 at the various parks.
The final coordinates will be found at N40 3A.BCD W79 EF.GHI
Parks:
Boyce Park
Deer Lakes
Harrison Hills
Hartwood Acres
North Park
Round Hill
Settlers Cabin
South Park
White Oak
Shelters:
9 – Alabama Shelter
9 – Blue Grass Shelter
2 – Carp I
7 – Kolich Shelter
4 – Mansion Parking Lot
4 – Maple Shelter
9 – Moccasin Shelter
1 – Pack Shelter
4 – Rachel Carlson Shelter
To help you get a better understanding for this cache, lets say if A took place in White Oak and the meeting place was 2 – Carp I… then for the puzzle, A would equal 2. To check if you are right, you can use the checker below.
The final location for this cache is within Harrison Hill’s Park. The county park rangers have gone out and checked this location and it is good, so you can cache in confidence. Parking is near the final location. There were plenty of muggles along the trails when I placed this cache, so you will want to keep an eye out for them. Harrison Hills is open from 8 AM to Sunset, so there is absolutely no night caching. The county police do come and lock the gates at the front of the park, so you do not want to get gated in. Please remember to practice CITO and if you see some garbage along your hike to the final, that you please pick up and throw it away properly.