Mill Creek Overlook Traditional Cache

Cache container is a clear plastic jar with a red screw-on lid and is about the size of a football. It is located at the Greenbury Point Nature Preserve just north of Annapolis Md. (Trail Map). Go across the road from the parking lot past the hiker sign, past the edge of the woods and go to the left and your on your way. The trail is not a well defined path but there are gray blazes and arrow signs on the trees to follow. Once you get to a bench in a clearing you'll have to bushwack the rest of the way but this is an open pine forest so it shouldn't be too tough. There are areas of thick stickers so the most direct route may not be the best. It's about a .46 mile hike one way from the parking lot to the cache. From the cache area, you'll have a beautiful view of Mill Creek, Whitehall Creek, and the Chesapeake Bay and Bridge off in the distance. You can get some spectacular sunrise photo's in this area if you arrive in the wee hours of the morning. I hike here often and almost always see deer in these woods.Here's a web page I created with pictures of the area.

This place has a lot of history and before being turned into a nature preserve it was home of NSS Annapolis ,a naval radio transmitting facility. There were many more antenna towers here including a 1200' main tower that supported a huge "capacity top hat" for a low frequency transmitter used to communicate with submarines in the atlantic fleet.

The property -- called "Hammond's Inheritance" -- was purchased by the Navy on August 21, 1909 for use as a dairy farm. From 1911 to 1917, part of this site was also used for the first Naval Air Station. In August 1911 a handful of Naval officers received orders to report for duty at the Engineering Experiment Station at the Naval Academy “... in connection with the test of gasoline motors and other experimental work in the development of aviation, including instruction at the aviation school.” The site of the aviation camp at the Academy was Greenbury Point. The Greenbury Point station has not come in for its fair measure of recognition in the history of Naval Aviation. It was a very small affair, and it shared its location with the Academy as its host. Nonetheless, its establishment was a landmark event, It was the Navy’s first air station and it was at Greenbury Point that the Navy began to conduct its first formal aviation training program. Pensacola, known as "The Cradle of Naval Aviation," succeeded the "naval air encampment" at Greenbury Point as the training site for naval aviators in 1914.

Greenbury Point was the site of the original settlement in the area, now mostly submerged by the Severn River. It was called Providence and was established by Puritans seeking religious freedom in 1649.