This is a puzzle geocache. There is no container or relevant information at the posted coordinates.
The United States has 63 National Parks. All of these parks have different beauty between each other. The oldest is Yellowstone (1872), and the newest is New River Gorge (2020). Each National Park has a 4 digit “Alpha Code.” The Alpha codes are made up of the first four letters of the park name. But if the park has more than one word, it takes the first two letters of the first two words. But there are some exceptions.
Examples:
1 word: Yosemite - yose
2 word: Petrified Forest - pefo
2+ word: Black Canyon of the Gunnison - blca
Exception: Carlsbad Caverns - cave
I will hide a geocache to honor all of these parks. I will do 6 groups of 10 caches. Each of these are a puzzle with 6 questions.
I used Wikipedia for this information, as it gives it all on one page. Also say in your log if you have been to this park. If you have, please post pictures.
This cache is different in that there is not a National Park highlighted by this cache, but rather to give information about the nps series I have hidden. I first started the nps cache series in June 2017, hiding the first 10 caches out on Franklin Canyon Road to create a little power trail. I intended to make the caches to teach others about the amazing National Parks of the United States. I have currently been to 22 of the 63 US National Parks, and making this series has inspired me to want to visit the rest of them, and I hope it has inspired other cachers to do the same.
I plan to update this page with more info over time, including maps, and the best way to plan routes to find the caches.
FTF Prize:
This is 1 of 8 caches in nsearls25's nps series that were given away as FTF prizes at KCSearcher's GC8M906 - CCE: DeLorme Challenges + State County Challenges event. For those attendees that received this as a prize, they had an 8 day head start on those that didn’t attend the event. The prize winners were instructed to sign the log in the “Pre-Publication FTFer(s)” space.
However, for the FTF Hounds that were not able to attend, they too had the opportunity to be FTF on this cache after publication that was targeted for Sunday, November 6, 2022 @ or around 8:00 AM Pacific Time. All they had to do is find the cache and be first to sign in the “Post-Publication FTFer(s)” space on the log.
Thanks CarlottaP for helping check the puzzles.
The final container is at: N 38° 00.800 W 122° 08.104 (yes these are the coords, no puzzle solving needed for this cache)
Congrats to Team PsychoPuppy for the Pre-FTF!
and Congrats to RV CREW, Virgojams, SweetDuo and dkata for the Post-FTF!
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.