GC7HQH3 Traditional Cache Tunnel Drive Trail
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: Room Ten-O-Nine @ | Hide Date: 02/01/2018 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 26.009 W105° 15.906 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Dogs  Scenic view  Wheelchair accessible  Parking available  Public restrooms nearby  Bicycles  Park and Grab 

anssouth got the FTF

I placed this cache primarily to call attention to this awesome trail.

Tunnel Drive was constructed in 1908 as part of a project that brought water from the Royal Gorge to Cañon City. The gravity flow pipeline was abandoned in the 1960s in favor of wells. The road remained open until 1990 at which time the bridges were deemed unsafe for motor vehicles. The road was closed, and after some rehabilitation was reopened as a trail for foot. bicycle, and horseback use only. In 2016 the trailhead was improved to include paving and rest rooms.

The trail runs for two miles (four miles round trip) along the Arkansas River. It passes through several tunnels and over a couple of bridges. The first 0.2 mile is uphill and the rest of the trail is level. There are several geocaches of varying degrees of difficulty along the trail.

The cache is in the trail head parking lot. Do not go outside the fence. Log only, bring your own calligraphy instrument.

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10 Logs: Found it 9  Didn't find it 1  

Found it 06/16/2019 By jkincolorado
Found after our hot hike.

Found it 06/10/2019 By leadrock
Had a chance to look for a cache or two today. Lots of muggles to wait out but then the cache was shortly in hand. SL TFTC

Found it 06/01/2019 By KC0HEV
Fifth find of the day after a 1000 day hiatus from caching. Rode my bike up the trail and grabbed a few cache on the way back down. There are a lot of places muggles can see you from here. Waited them out and made the grab. TFTC

73 Bryan

Found it 05/03/2019 By Farbish2
Awesome walk (the whole trail)... Forgot a pen for the wall, but logged this one with a writing stick from the car
Tftc

Found it 05/03/2019 By jayhawk734
thank you

Found it 07/29/2018 By STÜBBIFIED
Quick grab on me trail ride

Found it 07/26/2018 By mr.volkswagen
Found this one pretty easy and in great condition. Really surprised that the log in this one really wet with all the water in this area. Just a little damp.
Thanks for the cache.

mr.volkswagen

Found it 06/27/2018 By $rustyjones$
Have not been here for sometime, sure has had some improvements. Good little spot there. SL. TFTC.

Found it 03/20/2018 By sevenfooter1
Thanks to a little hint, I was able to find it today. I don't know how I missed it the first time.

Didn't find it 03/18/2018 By sevenfooter1
Couldn't find it.