Be sure to visit www.santafetrail.org/geocaching to learn about the PASSPORT ACTIVITY to accompany this Geo Tour. This cache is part of the larger Santa Fe Trail GeoTour: santafetrail.org/geocaching
Containers on the Santa Fe National Historic Trail Geo Tour are military ammunition canisters, or Brochure-Holder boxes, or a medium Bison container with an identifying Santa Fe Trail Association sticker. Each cache contains a logbook to sign, 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.
Fort Marcy was built by the U. S. Army on the hill overlooking the city of Santa Fe in 1846, and some features are still visible. This was the headquarters for troops in New Mexico until Fort Union was built in 1851 to get the troops out of the Santa Fe environment. Marking the 1846 site of the first U.S. military reservation in the Southwest, this park overlooks the northeast corner of downtown. Only a few mounds remain from the fort, but the Cross of the Martyrs, at the top of a winding brick walkway from Paseo de Peralta near Otero Street, is a popular spot for bird's-eye photographs. The cross was erected in 1920 by the Knights of Columbus and the Historical Society of New Mexico to commemorate the Franciscans killed during the Pueblo Rebellion of 1680. It has since played a role in numerous religious processions.