GC5N4ZX Bluff Lake " A Mile High View "
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: imusttravel2000 @ | Hide Date: 02/20/2015 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 45.495 W104° 51.462 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
   

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Bringing this cache back. A wonderful place here. Sorry, no dogs allowed. This is a wildlife refugee.

 

 

 

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Stapleton Airport Plans for building an airport at the Stapleton site began as early as 1929. The 123-acre Bluff Lake area was purchased by the Aviation Department from the Clayton Institute in 1970 and became part of the airport. The land became a “crash zone”, required at the end of all runways to shield the surrounding community from airplane activities. For the next fifty years, Bluff Lake remained undisturbed, surrounded by barbed wire fence and virtually ignored by Stapleton. During those fifty years, wildlife such as deer, red foxes, badgers, snakes, turtles, coyotes, owls, hawks, rabbits and a variety of waterfowl found their homes at Bluff Lake.

A New Era After Stapleton Airport closed on February 28, 1995, Bluff Lake Natural Area was established and protected under the terms of a settlement agreement between the City and County of Denver and the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club’s successful lawsuit against Denver's Department of Aviation was due to the inadequate retention ponds for ethanol glycol (the de-icing chemical for airplanes). During heavy rains, ethanol glycol would spill into Sand Creek and dramatically lower the dissolved oxygen levels, leading to fish kills. As part of the settlement, Denver agreed to preserve the Bluff Lake area and invest over three million dollars to enhance wildlife habitat, restore the banks of Sand Creek, build an interpretive trail system and construct open-air shelters.

 

06/23/2019 By imusttravel2000
N39° 45.497 W104° 51.463
Coordinates changed from:
N 39° 45.495 W 104° 51.462

Coordinates changed to:
N 39° 45.497 W 104° 51.463

Distance from original: 13.0 feet or 4.0 meters.

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06/23/2019 By imusttravel2000
Replaced

04/25/2019 By imusttravel2000
Will check on this one

04/20/2019 By #1 Beefers
Poop. May be missing.

04/20/2019 By GanderGoose
Long search, no joy.

10/21/2018 By UnknownDestination
Sharon found another one! Way to go Sharon.

10/16/2018 By fergsteve
Found on Cub Scout hike

10/13/2018 By RubikHaus
Nice one - found on a cub scout hike

10/13/2018 By coellen22
Left a sticker!

10/10/2018 By lizard0921
DNF

09/11/2018 By ttcheerios2
Found it. Thanks.

08/26/2018 By RonakVP
Great find! Thank you!

Our girls loved the container!

08/19/2018 By acreese18
Disregard my earlier comment

08/19/2018 By acreese18
Found plant and rock, but no medicine box

08/06/2018 By waitomo
Thank-you for the cache! My first find in a couple of years. I'm back!