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Oppenheim Zoo Traditional Cache

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Mr.Yuck: Thank you subliminaluser (great name by the way). I actually missed the August 8th DNF. That'll happen when you have over 40 cache placements. This one is indeed missing, and for the 2nd time. Although it was my 2nd hide, and is almost 7 years old, there's nothing spectacular here, and it's going bye-bye. It also always bothered me there was an old, weathered "no tresspassing" sign on the fence visible from N.F. Boulevard, which I didn't notice until about 2 or 3 years after the cache was placed!! CYA, thanks for all the fish.

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Hidden : 9/19/2003
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


The Cache is located on the grounds of the abandoned Oppenheim Zoo (closed in 1988) inside Oppenheim County Park, part of the Niagara County Parks System. A short description of the park:

Oppenheim County Park & Zoo is 75.0 acre county owned developed for multiple use park in the Town of Wheatfield in Niagara County.

Oppenheim Park, located off Niagara Falls Boulevard, is an open space park featuring a man-made pond for fishing and relaxing. Its long entrance, leads to a quiet, spacious park including volleyball nets, a playground, a wading pool and numerous picnic tables for visitors planning on spending the day or a few hours.

The Oppenheim Zoological society maintains a nice website (always under constructions) with a history of the zoo, and longstanding threats that it will re-open some day, despite it now being over 20 years since it's closing. This cache has been there for 6 of those years! Oppenheimzoo.org

Cache replaced 8/21/05 with a very small generic tupperware container, after being muggled. It's cheesy and cheap, but it's held up well, and has not been muggled since.

Use the hint only if needed, it's sort of a dead give-away.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Pbapergr Oybpx

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)