Another scenic coastal park well worth a visit! This one will cost you unless it's wintertime, but is well worth waiting for (or paying for if it's in your budget). Check out the small lighthouse and historic buildings/ruins.

Aloha Cache (FortPickering)

Breakheart Researvation is another must-do stop on your caching tour. Its ample wooded trails and its rocky ridgelines remind us of wilderness hiking without the long drive to the White Mountains or Berkshires. Plus, in summertime, you really can't beat a swim in a pond after a tiring hike. This cache stands out as the best view on the best trail in the park! Take the walk from here to Ridge Trail Challenge and Eric's Adventure to enjoy the full ridge trail experience.

Breakheart Redux:  Phoenix

Danvers Duo gets credit for introducing geocachers to this short, quaint path through marsh, field and a wonderful enchanted grove. Be sure to check out For the Birds, a creative hide in its own right, while you're here.

Cherry Hill Cache

This is a great challenging multi and a great (very creative) hide! These woods are were a favorite place for jogging and strolling when we were in college nearby.

Chewbacca's Woods

No hike here but great views of across the river/harbour! Enjoy watching the sailboats in summertime, and enjoy a stroll around Salem Willows Park.  Be sure to check out the pier for a another perspective on this scenic pennisula.

Dead Horse Cache

This park is a treasure for anyone who yearns for a taste of the country in suburbia. With a Children's Barn, Nature Center (with small but excellent display of wildlife artifacts), and woodland trails, Endicott Park is one of the first places we like to take out of town visitors. Thanks again to Danvers Duo for introducing us to it. While you're here, there are several great caches on park property and it's also worth the $2 walk-on admission fee to visit the grounds of adjacent Glen Magna Estate.

Endicott Park Cache

Another of Salem's scenic coastal parks. This one stands out for it's stately trees, grassy open space and rocky coastline. Grassy Knoll gets recognition here for also being a being a creative hide and making you climb a hill to find it! 

Grassy Knoll

This one is all about the location. A rewarding view in wintertime and a fun short hike all year round. Bring a camera to capture the massive glacial rock formations.

Let's Rock

Placed in another of our favorite parks--a beautiful old estate converted for public use. A great place for strolling in the summer and skiing, snowshoeing or sledding in the winter. Don't miss the views of the Merrimac River. An easy find for some. Hard for us! But it's often the hard ones that are the most fun.

New Years Eve Cache

While not techinically a 'hike' since it takes you through town, this is a unique tour of historic Danvers and makes a great walking tour on a nice day. The historic buildings have a simple beauty in their own way, and the history is fascinating. The owner/creator did his homework on this one, and it shouldn't be missed!

The Salem Witch Trials of 1692

Dogtown Common is another geocaching haven on the North Shore. Plan plenty of time if you want to find even half of the caches in this spacious wooded park. Tippling Rock stood out to me due to the heinous difficulty of finding it among all the potential hiding spots. Dogtown also gets credit for providing some history along with the hunt.  Be sure to also check out nearby Pirates Deathmatch Gate (because of the creative tale and title of course) and Path to Beaverdam (which takes you on my favorite trail in the Common). Whatever you do, don't by-pass a walk around the placid pond in the middle of the park.

Tippling Rock

Another great location scouted out by Danvers Duo. If you're in the area for a while, you might not want to miss sunset over the Resorvoir. Bring a camera!

Waters Walk

Any caching tour of the North Shore must include at least one stop in the Lynn Woods. We've chosen this one because it takes you on a fairly long hike through some confusing trails over rocky hills dotted with trees burned by lighnting strike! Plus, it has some cool history attached to it. Be warned however that a wrong turn will have you needlessly bushwacking through impossible terrain and heinous thorn bushes. A word to the wise: Stay on the trail!

Wolf Pits

A few of our favorite caching experiences in the North Shore/Cape Ann area. Some we chose for the intrigue or beauty of the area, some for the cleverness of the hides. None of them are 'park and grabs' so plan on at least a short walk to anything on this list.  This list is by no means exhaustive, so please nominate any of your own personal favorites that we may have overlooked or haven't found yet!

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