SFGT: Santa Fe Trail Park Traditional Geocache
SFGT: Santa Fe Trail Park
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This cache is part of the larger Santa Fe Trail GeoTour: santafetrail.org/geocaching On a gravel, all-season road. A very short walk to the cache. Off-road parking available in a maintained wayside park. Cache is hidden in overgrown area. Watch for poison ivy & crawly things.
Be sure to visit www.santafetrail.org/geocaching to learn about the PASSPORT ACTIVITY to accompany this Geo Tour. Containers on the Santa Fe National Historic Trail Geo Tour are military ammunition canisters, or Brochure-Holder boxes, or a screw-top Bison canister, with an identifying Santa Fe Trail Association yellow sticker on the top of the box, under the handle and the dark green geocaching.com ID is on the side of the boxes with the information that provides coordinates, who set the cache and who to contact for information. Each cache contains a logbook to sign, a variety of items that provide information about the Santa Fe Trail as well as swag items. If you are participating in the Passport activity, the code word is located on the inside of the box, on the top of the lid and is clearly identified as Code Word. We ask that all cachers please respect all property at the sites where our caches are set. Permission was obtained to set this cache from the site manager. The Santa Fe Trail, which linked east to west between 1824 and 1875, passed through Baldwin City. This small park was created to honor those who traveled the Trail. Located here are a Daughters of the American Revolution stone marker that was set in 1906. This area is located on what was once the Santa Fe Trail and along a stretch of the Trail known as "the Narrows". The Narrows ran from just west of present Black Jack State Park east of Baldwin City to the site of Willow Spring some 9 miles west. Wagon trains had to stay on this ridge to avoid rough terrain and muddy draws. Although no remnants remain at this site because of highway construction, dramatic swales are located at Black Jack State Park on Hwy 56, just east of Baldwin City. This site is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places.
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