I have fancied putting togehter a geo art for a while now & being as the old series is a bit tired, had a chat with USAndy to do this re-run. This is a one of a series of 50 puzzle caches that will take you around the town of Thornbury. All puzzles are so easy to solve we have made the D rating a 1 on most, as the hides are easy to find as well.
All the caches are to do with the USA and will give you info on all the states.
To help you navigate the public footways around this area, the Explorer 167 map will be helpful.
The whole walk in one go will be no less than 12 miles, depending on other caches you can grab on the way round. There is a bonus cache as before.
Please see number 1 USA Mega series re-run #1; Alabama for car parking, if you need it.
ARIZONA
- Origin of name: A Spanish version of the Pima Indian word Arizonac foe “place of the small spring” or from the Aztecs arizuma meaning “silver bearing”
- Capital: Phoenix
- Largest city: Phoenix
- Population: 6,626,624 (2013 est) Ranked 15th in the US.
- Nicknames: The Grand Canyon state; The copper state.
- Highest point: Humphreys peak, 12,663 ft
- Admission to union: February 14th, 1912 (48th)
- State motto: God enriches
- State song: Arizona
- State tree: Palo Verde
- State flower: Saguaro cactus blossom
- State bird: Cactus wren
- Area: 113,998 Ranked 6th in the US
Did you know……...
1) Grand Canyon's Flaming Gorge got its name for its blazing red and orange, Twelve-hundred-foot-high walls.
2) Arizona leads the nation in copper production.
3) The original London Bridge was shipped stone-by-stone and reconstructed in Lake Havasu City.
4) Grand Canyon's Marble Canyon got its name from its thousand-foot-thick seam of marble and for its walls eroded to a polished glass finish.
5) Tombstone, Ruby, Gillette, and Gunsight are among the ghost towns scattered throughout the state.
To solve this one name the state Bird.
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
The Little Bridges series was started by Stanthews in 2009 to highlight small footbridges in remote parts of Wiltshire. Since then the series has been expanded by others all over the country and starting to spread fast. There is a stats listing, so you can see how many Little Bridges you have found, you can find it HERE . If you would like to add to the series, please contact Stan via the Little Bridges website with your caching name, name of your Little Bridge and the GC code and he will give you a number for your bridge. To qualify, the bridge must be a foot bridge too small for vehicles, please make sure your title exactly matches "Little Bridges # xxxx then the name" including spaces so it will get picked up and added to stats list.