Benninghoff Cache Mystery Cache
Mooch and Earl: decided to archive this cache. Thank-you to everyone who found it.
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This is located in Oil Creek State Park. The above cords. are for
parking. It doesnt look like much of a parking area but you are
allowed to park there along side the road with out getting in
trouble by the park ranger.
Once you get to parking area, you will walk across a wooden bridge,
following the trail (yellow blazes painted on trees), up a slight
hill, past an oil shack building to an interpretive sign where you
can answer the following questions to the final cache.
1- Find the number of barrels of oil that the Ocean Well produced a
day minus 281 = last 2 digits for latitude.
2- The acreage of Mr. Benninghoff's farm plus 200 = the last 3
digits of the longitude.
N 41 32.0 **
W 79 40.***
From here the cache is approx. .87 away up a moderate, but long,
incline. You will follow the hiking trail the whole way!!! (yellow
blazes painted on trees) If there is still snow on the ground when
you do this- you will notice that humans are not the only ones to
use cleared trails. turkey, fox, coyote, deer and other animals use
the trail for thier convenience. At the top of this hill~ eagles
have been seen soaring through Oil Creek Valley in search of a
tasty trout that managed to escape opening day. This trail does not
zig-zag like the Wickest Geocache. It is a pretty straight shot.
Other caches in Oil Creek State Park:
· Wickedest Geo cache East of the Mississippi
· The True Treasure Cache
· Oil Creek Slicker, by Thehiker
· Muddy Hen
Park Maps: http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us or located at park office.
Please wear orange in hunting season. This is a SEASONAL cache. The
interpretive sign is removed in the fall for the winter season and
is put up some time in April.
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