Achievement! - "Red Witch" - 700 Finds Traditional Cache
Achievement! - "Red Witch" - 700 Finds
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This cache was placed for Red Witch to commemorate her 700th find and to open up another geocaching area. Red Witch introduced us to Geocaching and still acts as our mentor. Thank you Red Witch. The cache is placed along the Old Croydon Turnpike which runs from Croydon, NH to Plainfield/Cornish, NH and is a Class VI highway. Our property backs up into this general area so we have spent quite a bit of time on the old road.
On one side of the road, surrounded by a 10 foot game fence is Corbin Park, or the Blue Mountain Forest and Game Preserve, a private, enclosed shooting preserve with a very limited membership. The 24,000-acre fenced preserve was founded in 1890 by Austin Corbin II, a Newport native who grew to prominence in the late 1800s as a founder of modern American banking. Corbin used his fortune to buy up as much land as he could in the Croydon-Grantham-Plainfield area to establish a gigantic hunter’s playground which has been visited by a number of Presidents. Originally, it was stocked with bison, white-tailed deer, black-tailed deer, mule deer, European red deer, bighorn sheep, moose, antelope, caribou, Himalayan mountain goats, pheasants and wild boar from the German Black Forest. Corbin Park once had the largest bison herd in the country, and supplied bison and deer to refuges, parks and zoos all over the U.S.
The other side of the Old Croydon Turnpike is mostly made up of forest preserve land or recreational use land and there are no houses but you can still see old cellar holes and stone walls. It is an excellent place to hike, ride horses, snowmobile, ATV, x-country ski/snowshoe and explore the many miles of connector trails and roads. The Blue Mountain Snowmobile Club maintains a hut and the trails that can be accessed from Miller Pond Road, Grantham.
There are a number of ways to get onto the Old Croydon Turnpike. However, I would suggest the end of Walker Road, Grantham which has a nice parking area. You can also park where Dunbar Hill Road turns into a Class VI highway and walk through the woods to Walker Road. There is also a public dirt road that is on the top of Dunbar Hill Road beside a large open field looking out at the Croydon Mountains which are all in the Corbin Park. You can park by the side of the field. Entry is also possible from Miller Pond Road and Levitt Pond Road. A number of roads in Croydon also allow access.
You will have a pleasant walk to the cache on a fairly level road that crosses some running streams that are spanned by snowmobile bridges. The road is in the deep forest so it is cool and relatively bug free. The cache is in an ammo box and well stocked. It should be accessible in the winter. Please re-hide as well or better than you found this cache. Enjoy this remote area and keep a lookout for bear, moose, deer, turkeys and the occasional wild boar.
FTF - Red Witch, New Brunswick, Canada
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