Be sure to visit www.santafetrail.org/geocaching to learn about the PASSPORT ACTIVITY to accompany this Geo Tour. All containers on the Santa Fe National Historic Trail Geo Tour are military ammunition canisters 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. Permission to set caches has been obtained. We ask that all cachers please respect all property at the sites where our caches are set.
The Cimarron Route of the Santa Fe trail passed through Grant County, turned south and crossed the path of modern highway US 160 just east of Ulysses, where this cache is located. The area to the north of this site is known locally as the “Big Basin Sinkhole”. This part of the Trail is right in the middle of what was called the Jornada, or journey. Those who had difficulty understanding the Spanish pronunciation mistook Jornada for “horn alley” so this part of the Santa Fe Trail is sometimes known by that, also. The Trail continued south and crossed the Cimarron River in the southern part of the county.