Foot Bridge Gone: Meridian State Park Multi-Cache
Foot Bridge Gone: Meridian State Park
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A small offset cache that begins near Meridian, Texas.
1. N31° 54.939 / W097° 39.850
Many locales around central Texas claim to have been "on" the Chisholm trail. It seems likely that all drovers did not follow the exact same trail as others. This would have allowed fresh grass for the many herds that were being driven north. Part one of this cache begins with a historical monument. Find the year that Bosque County was formally created. Add the year xxxx to the numbers that follow.
N31° 51.920 + x.xxx / W097° 40.523 + x.xxx
2. The resulting coordinates should take you to the cache inside Meridian State Park. Get a trail map from the park office as you enter. The trail is not well marked and may be overgrown in places! Park near the Bee Ledge Overlook. From the overlook take the trail to the right near the edge of the ledge for a couple hundred feet until it turns down the hill. Follow the trail and your GPSr until you reach the site on the creek where the old footbridge once crossed (I guess it washed away in the flood!). Now continue along the new portion of the trail until you reach the current low water crossing site. The cache is near a tree behind you as you stand looking at the creek.
If you have not already gone under the Bee Ledge Overlook be sure to do that before you leave the park. Thirty years ago when my kids were young we came to this park at least once each year and we always made a visit to the "Bee Caves." The bees were quite active then but now it seems that vandals have destroyed their honeycomb and caused them to move out.
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