THIS CACHE IS PROBABLY NOT AVAILABLE IN THE WINTER - CONSIDER ROAD CONDITIONS AND SNOW DEPTH BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT THIS CACHE AND DOWNLOAD GEOCACHE INFO BEFORE YOU GO - CELL SERVICE IS VERY SPOTTY IN THE AREA!
The 33rd of a series of caches planned to be hidden at or near the historic rural schoolhouses of Routt County (RCSH - Routt County School Houses). See the first cache of this series (GC6QQ71) for a complete and updated list of the ones currently available - but this list will continue to grow as there were 96 schools which served Routt County neighborhoods from 1883 until 1960 when the rural districts consolidated.
Salt Creek School was the first school built in the Mystic School District. The log building on the creek was built around 1898 and may have closed in 1920. Salt Creek crosses county road 46 just west of this cache at the bottom of the hill.
Although the lower part of CR 46 is now known as Mystic, it is important to note that Mystic was actually on the “other side” of the ridge North of here. The “Mystic Star Mail Route” from Steamboat traveled along what is now CR 46 and went to the Mystic Post Office at the Fred May ranch, which was located near CR 52E. It crossed the ridge between Chimney Creek and Salt Creek.