All points of interest in the downtown area are between 7th street and 11th street.
At the starting coordinates find a former U.S. Bank building that the Sleepover Bandits (Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton) robbed in the 2001 movie "Bandits". In the years since we created this geocache, the bank has closed. The building is now used for short term residential housing for medical care. We don't want staff or clients to be disturbed so we're posting the numbers you would have had to find at this stop.
A=9 B=8 C=8 D=0 E=5 F=9 G=8 H=8 I=1 J=8
There's a 4-way stop on Main Street that features a drive-thru coffee stand. On one of the corners of that 4-way stop you will find some horse rings embedded in the sidewalk. You can tie your horse to one of the rings so that it doesn't wander off. The address of the doorway nearest to the horse rings is KLMN. (A "horse ring" is an iron ring embedded in the sidewalk found at ground level. Don't waste your time counting signposts or bicycle racks).
The checksum for this set of numbers is 2. (K+L+M+N=2)
Henry Weinhard once had a brewery warehouse on Main Street. A doorway to the building is still flanked by images of hops and kegs. The keg on the left has the numbers OPQ and the one on the right has the number RST.
The checksum for this set of numbers is 26. (O+P+Q+R+S+T=26)
The municipal elevator is the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States. It's also the only vertical street in the U.S. (shown as 'Elevator Street' on the city plat).
You will need to visit the elevator when it is open to collect the needed information.
Oregon City's landmark Municipal Elevator is free to the public and open the following hours:
Normal Hours Extended summer hours (June through September)
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Sunday Sunday
10am to 7pm 10am to 7pm
Monday through Saturday Monday and Tuesday
7am to 7pm 7am to 7pm
Wednesday through Saturday
7 am to 9:30 pm
The elevator is closed on the following holidays:
New Year's Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
To verify the schedule check https://downtownoregoncity.org/municipal-elevator/
Walk through the tunnel at the bottom of the elevator. Before you get in to ride up, look to your left and you'll see a staircase with 15 steps to the first landing. How many pictures are on the walls where these 15 steps are located? That's 'U'.
Ride the elevator up to the top and when you step out look straight ahead to the window. Count the number of pictures mounted on the wall beneath that window. That number is 'V'.
The checksum for U + V = 10
Time to leave downtown and go to the cache, but first, pull up a map of Oregon City.
This one works if you have a PDF reader app on your phone or computer:
https://www.orcity.org/428/Street-Map
On the hill above downtown, following the map up 7th St and then Molalla Avenue, notice the cross streets are named for U.S. Presidents. What's odd is there is one street actually named for the loser of a Post-Depression Presidential race while the man that won the election does not have a street named for him. How many letters in the last name of the loser of that race? Call that W. The number of letters in the last name of the President without a street named for him is X. Funny thing about this presidential race, the Chicago Daily Tribune headline announced that the wrong guy had won.
The checksum for this set of numbers (W+X) is 11.
The cache is here:
C/2 E T I. P B-1 F
S T T Q A-4. G-1 L V+1
Best place to park. DON'T IGNORE THESE! USING THIS PARKING SPOT WILL MAKE GETTING TO THE CACHE EASIER:
R/2 E T I. O N H (That's an O as in Oscar, not a zero)
S T T U/2 W. X M K