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SM#1 - The Kitchen Garden Traditional Geocache

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Sara-Cap NYS Parks: The 2016 Sara-Cap Geocache Challenge has come to a close. Thank you for your participation! Watch for the 2017 Challenge starting in May, and possibly a Sara-Cap winter friendly round of caches starting in December.

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Hidden : 5/13/2016
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


This Cache is placed as part of the 2016 New York State Park Saratoga/Capital District Regional Geocache Challenge. There are 76 geocaches hidden within 18 state parks and historic sites in this parks region, and geocachers finding 40 or more will be eligible to receive a commemorative, unique, and trackable geocoin. The first 100 people to find 40 or more caches will receive a special geocache challenge coin. If you are interested in taking up the challenge, you can pick up a geocache passport at any of the participating parks and sites or download it at www.nysparks.com   New for 2016 – NYS Parks Central Region will be hosting a similar challenge!!  10 caches found in the Central Region Challenge can be used toward the Sara-Cap Challenge!

This cache contains a unique stamp which must stay with the cache. Use this stamp to mark your passport. This stamp is NOT a trade item. Some of the items in the cache are park souvenirs and do not need to be replaced with a trade item.

This cache is hidden in Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site.  Thru October - The site is open Wednesday through Sunday from 10am - 5pm, closed on Monday and Tuesday!!  Tours of the mansion are from 11am - 4pm, each hour!  Make time for a tour this year!  For more information call the site at 518-434-0834

The back of the mansion is how you approach the site today.  Once a work area which supported the mansion’s activities, a separate office, kitchen and nursery were located at the back of the mansion.  Enslaved people worked in this space preparing meals for the Schuyler family and their guests. Now a garden, the stone wall approximates the size of the kitchen.  We invite you to sit and enjoy the kitchen garden.  

 

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