Monopoly- Skit Branch Waterway Traditional Geocache
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Monopoly- Skit Branch Waterway
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This cache, as well as eight others in the “ Wharton Monopoly” series, are all regular caches. There is a logbook and trade items at each of the caches, as well as additional coordinates to complete the final ‘board game’. You must have logged all
nine of the series before completing the game. ( a.k.a. The Final “ Wharton Monopoly”)
The Batsto River is a tributary of the Mullica River in the southern New Jersey Pine Barrens in the United States. Originating in Tabernacle Township, the Batsto River is joined by Skit Branch, Deep Run, Springer's Brook, Penn Swamp Branch and Goodwater Run before reaching Batsto Village where a dam forms Batsto Lake. From Batsto Village, the stream continues on for a few miles before its confluence with the Mullica River at The Forks.
The Batsto River passes through multiple historic landmarks along its journey to the Mullica River. These landmarks include Hampton furnace, Lower Forge and Quaker Bridge, each being places of small settlements at one time .
The Mullica River is a river, approximately 55 miles (90 km) long, in southern New Jersey in the United States. The Mullica was once known as the Little Egg Harbor River.
The river provides one of the principal drainages into the Atlantic Ocean of the extensive Pinelands. Its estuary on Great Bay is considered one of the least-disturbed marine wetlands habitats in the northeastern United States.
It rises in central Camden County, near Berlin, on the southwestern fringes of the New Jersey suburbs of Philadelphia. It flows generally ESE across the state, crossing the Wharton State Forest. Near the Forks, where it receives the Batsto River, the Mullica broadens into a navigable river approximately 20 miles (32 km) long, stretching East Southeast and emptying into Great Bay approximately 10 miles (16 km) north of Atlantic City. Approximately 3 miles (5 km) upstream from its mouth on Great Bay it receives the estuary of the Wading River from the north. Approximately 2 miles (3 km) upstream from its mouth it receives the Bass River from the north.
The estuary is traversed by the Garden State Parkway and US 9 near its mouth. The lower reaches of the river form an extensive wetlands area, which is protected on its southern bank as the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. The river is noted as a spawning ground for striped bass.
The river is named after Eric Pålsson Mullica, an early Finnish settler born in 1636 who founded a homestead on the river after moving there from the vicinity of Philadelphia. The settlement was located about 15 miles (24 km) upstream from the mouth near present-day Lower Bank.
Oswego Lake-
Touted as one of the prettiest rivers in the Pine Barrens, Oswego River takes you through Atlantic white cedar swamps, lowland forests, and freshwater marshes. If you want to combine biking and paddling, this is ideal. Lock your bike to a tree at the Harrisville landing, then drive back to Oswego Lake. Cedar, sweet gum, and red maple line the waters within predominantly pine and oak lowland woods ...
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