There is a very slight trail that will get you to the cache. It is marked with pink marking tape, but please do not rely totally on that. Due to the poor trail conditions, please be sure to have a spare set of batteries, and use your GPSr's "Track Feature" in case you lose the trail.
Park at the coordinates below. The trail leaves the parking area just to the left of the green post. From there, head towards T1. As you get to T2, cross the stone wall, and start walking towards T3. Before you cross the next wall, look towards your left for a ribbon of pink marking tape. Head towards that mark, and should then be able to see the trail to the cache site.
Some History:
Around 1637, Richard Smith, an original settler of Taunton in Plymouth Colony, established a trading post at Cocumscussoc and, according to Roger Williams, "Put up...the first English house..." It is thought to have been a grand house that was, possibly, fortified: thus the name Smith's Castle.
Smith continued to increase his holdings, and Cocum-scussoc soon became a center of social, political, and religious activities. Smith died in 1666 leaving the property to his son, Richard Smith, Jr. The house was burned in 1676 during the King Philip's War.
By 1678, Smith, Jr. had built a new home with front rooms flanking a large stone fireplace, a kitchen lean-to at the back, and a massive two-story, gabled porch on the front. When he died childless in 1692, he bequeathed Cocumscussoc to his nephew Captain Lodowick Updike and Lodowick's wife Abigail Newton Updike. Lodowick and Abigail were first cousins and grandchildren of the elder Richard Smith.
The Updike family developed Cocumscussoc into one of the great plantations of 18th-century New England. At its height, it encompassed more than 3,000 acres, and was divided into five farms worked by tenant farmers, indentured servants, and slaves.
Hunting is allowed in the forest (we saw two tree stands).
All users of State Management Areas and designated undeveloped State Parks are required to wear 200 square inches of solid daylight fluorescent orange from the second Saturday in September to the last day of February and the third Saturday in April to the last day in May. All users of State Management Areas and designated undeveloped State Parks and all hunters statewide must wear solid fluorescent hunter orange above the waist that is visible in all directions. Blaze Orange requirements in gallery.
With a hike like this, you should let someone know where you are headed, and bring a cell phone. A caching buddy is also a good idea. Please plan accordingly, and wear appropriate clothing and shoes, and bring enough water and food for the walk.