UPDATE!!! 5/16/2022 I replaced the cache host for a larger host, to make it a real TB Hotel. There is plenty of room now for TB’s, and other goodies. It is full of kid friendly goodies right now with a few TB’s. I had to move it slightly to give it a better hiding spot. Even though it should be easier to spot. The cords have been updated from N35 54.188 W80 51.378 to N35 54.185 W80 51.373. About 30 feet or so north. The coordinates have been updated on the cache page.
NCDOT built a new rest area at MM 58 in Iredell County on I-77 in 2018 in the median, at a cost of $15 million, saving $1 million by not having to buy right of ways, because they already owned the medians. After the construction, they demolished 4 existing rest areas. Two were 15 miles north, and two were 20 miles south, saving the state $750,000.
I drive this stretch of highway at least once a week. As l drive by this newly built rest area, I think this would be a great place for a cache. While I have been waiting for someone to hide a cache, I thought, why don't I hide one? So this is my first hide.
This cache is accesible from the northbound or the southbound lanes. About a 10 minute hike from the farthest parking spot away, about 4 minutes from the closest, and the treasure can be had. As of 5/16/2022 The host is now a large ammo can. There is a pen and new log book in the host, but bring your own writing stick, just in case. Muggles could pose a problem, so be stealthy.
As I am curious where people are from, it would be neat, when you log on line to tell what state/country you are from, and an estimate of how many miles you are from home base.
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There is a nice 1997 Kennedy half dollar waiting on the first to find.
Congratulations to DCCQuinn for the FTF!!! Congratulations to unimoggers for being the 300th cacher to log a find on this cache.