GCMN0K Traditional Cache Sleepy Lion
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular Regular | Difficulty: 1 out of 5 | Terrain: 3 out of 5
By: n0wae @ | Hide Date: 01/30/2005 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 12.993 W105° 21.506 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 6
Dogs  Scenic view  Parking available  Public restrooms nearby  Medium hike (1km-10km) 
This is a special cache adventure for you hikers out there. This 5.5 mile loop trail will take you through the little known and very scenic "Button Rock Preserve".
The City of Longmont owns and maintains the B.R.P. Be prepared for a unique experience while visiting this walk-in-preserve. Longmont uses the Button Rock Reservoir (now called Ralph Price Reservoir) as a water source for the city's water utility. Longmont also manages the natural watershed in the area and has a Forest Stewardship Program.

After parking at N40°13.705 W105°20.565 hike WxS past the Longmont Reservoir to the Sleepy Lion trailhead. Take this trail up to the cache (overlook) then continue on down toward the R.P. Reservoir. The trail will turn into a dirt road which will come to a marked intersection. Left goes to the reservoir and right is the loop road back to the parking area.

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THMN0K - Park here
N 40° 13.705 W 105° 20.565

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CodeNameTypeCommentsDateCoordinatesDistance
THMN0KPark here Parking Area  09/17/2006 N 40° 13.705 W 105° 20.565 1.87 kms NE 

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15 Logs: Found it 15  

Found it 07/03/2019 By DBsearching
Made the find today on my morning hike. Nice view of the lake from this area.
Tftc

Found it 06/29/2019 By seanmoebeal
Many trips through this trail, and we never saw it until we started geocaching! It was always out in the open and easy to spot, making it a cleverly rewarding and easy find!

Found it 05/24/2019 By TnJtravlers
Wonderful view of the lake from just a few feet away.

TFTC

Found it 05/18/2019 By Astronomer12
TFTC This was a great trail and even better with caches.

Found it 04/21/2019 By lwc24
Visiting from Minneapolis and stopped in for a hike on the way to Boulder. Thanks for the hide!

Found it 08/11/2018 By Vater_UndSohn
Found it, and retrieved a trackable. Fun hike, and nice to find our 100th geocache. Thanks!

Found it 08/11/2018 By kgnknox25
TFTC

Found it 06/10/2018 By SimonAndSchuster
Beautiful area with great views. Dropped off a trackable. Tftc

Found it 05/07/2018 By NedHead87
Great hike along the sleepy lion trail. Got to my 400th cache today. Tftc!

Found it 11/23/2017 By benji55545
Beautiful spot to rest after working your way uphill. In fact, I did just that last year when I came here with a running group. We had 15 peoplle within feet of this cache and nobody was the wiser (myself included). I brought my GPS today and found this quickly.

Found it 09/16/2017 By 5thApe
Thanks for the cache. I had to stop and talk to a couple of hikers and say hi to their dog while I took in the view of the lake (which was very nice), then go get the cache when they were leaving.

Dropped a Denali souvenir coin, took a trackable.

Found it 09/14/2017 By FayColSalTom
Hiked Sleepy Lion this morning. TFTC SL

Found it 08/13/2017 By KrisKite
Good find

Found it 06/11/2017 By ArjenWynja
In great condition, fun to find, and exciting when I found it! Thanks!

Found it 06/06/2017 By Path Pacer
We were happy to reach the high point of the trail by the time we got here. The cache was a quick find and is in good condition, but it's the views that make this spot special. It's kind of the point of the whole trail. Thanks for bringing us here.
EstesLynne with the cache

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