GC5RCMF Traditional Cache Whitewater
Type: Traditional | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: kekj @ | Hide Date: 03/07/2015 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 59.449 W108° 26.960 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
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Just a widening of the road and a slower speed limit?

Captain John Gunnison of the U.S. Topographic Engineers and a party of 62 men passed by here in September of 1853, while searching for a route for a railroad along the 38th parallel.  As you leave Whitewater you will cross the Gunnison River.  Originally known as the Rio Javier, or by its Indian name, Tomichi, the river was renamed to honor Captain Gunnison and his party.

This Junction of Hwys 50 and 141 at Whitewater marks the northern end of the 133 mile Unaweep Tabeguche (pronounced Tab-a-watch) Scenic and Historic Byway (UTB) through the Uncompahgre Plateau.

For some really cool videos go to this site http://www.utbyway.com/ so see shots of the Driggs "mansion" as well as of the engineering feat of the Hanging Flume. Beginning in 1887, construction took three years to hang a 6' x 4' wooden flume for 12 miles along the shear cliff face over the Dolores River Canyon. The flume carried 80,000,000 gallons of water a day for the three years that it was in use for hydraulic mining. To see this item alone is well worth the drive!

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13 Logs: Found it 11  Write note 2  

Found it 06/14/2019 By guido49
Found it. All is well. Nice hide. Great history. TFTC

Found it 06/10/2019 By shivleyninja
First cache in Colorado thanks for the find!!

Write note 05/17/2019 By kekj
Have not physically checked condition of this cache in several years, running early for flight out of GJT so took a peak, looks like new.

TFTC - visited Tbugs - team kekj.

Write note 05/17/2019 By kekj
Have not physically checked condition of this cache in several years, running early for flight out of GJT so took a peak, looks like new.

TFTC - visited Tbugs - team kekj.

Found it 05/13/2019 By BG2015
Quick stop on the roadside, probably the first time that I have stopped here, usually whizzing by at highway speeds. Nice history stop.

Found it 10/14/2018 By LoriAnn1961
Found it.

Found it 09/16/2018 By kcorne1
Traveling thru Colorado to see the colors with Scenery Seeker and picked this one up. TFTC

Found it 09/16/2018 By Scenery Seeker
Late logging on 10-1-18. Found with kcorne1 on 9-16-18, #5 of 16 on the day. Found this one on our way from Utah into Colorado for some sightseeing. The hanging flume sounds interesting, but we didn't take time to find it on this trip. TFTC.

Found it 09/02/2018 By LlamaMan134
Great cache TNLN didn’t sight the log though

Found it 07/28/2018 By reherlife
#reherlife

Found it 07/25/2018 By msmosier
This is an odd little marker. I can't imagine many people read it - unless they are geocachers or locals.

Found it 07/24/2018 By alohaBADA
Got it! Tftc!

Found it 07/23/2018 By 5Gregorys
Thanks! Neat history.