GC71RZK Traditional Cache Historic Grand Lake Lodge
Type: Traditional | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: BugRanger @ | Hide Date: 03/08/2017 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 15.469 W105° 49.903 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Scenic view  Needs maintenance  Tourist Friendly  GeoTour 

A quick cache at the entrance road to the Historic Grand Lake Lodge. It's about 4 ft up, and above most of the winter snow.

Located near the west entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park, the road to the Grand Lake Lodge turns off US Hwy 36 just outside the Park boundary. There is a good parking spot by the historic sign and a short distance to GZ.

The Town of Grand Lake has a long history, dating back to the Utes & Arapaho, and later miners of silver, lead, & gold. The town itself was surveyed & formally established in 1881. After the mining era went "bust" around 1890, tourism slowly returned by the beginning of the 1900s

After the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park in 1915, and the new road over Fall River Pass began to bring more tourists into Grand Lake, additional lodging facilities were needed. Construction of the Grand Lake Lodge began in 1918. Made of native lodge-pole pine, the Lodge and many outer buildings were soon completed & opened for guests on July 3rd, 1920. The lodge is noted for its front porch and the views looking out over Grand Lake.

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Pine tree, not the 3 spruces.

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11 Logs: Found it 11  

Found it 07/04/2019 By Bnfasnacht
Fun find

Found it 07/01/2019 By SBAB1214
Thanks for the cache!

Found it 06/30/2019 By apple nut
Good hint. We saw something that looked like a bar of soap in the spruce tree. TFTC

Found it 06/17/2019 By Iron Snowbird
Love the old historic lodges??thanks for bringing us here

Found it 06/17/2019 By Hanakiso
Great lodge

Found it 08/21/2018 By korriaan
On a trip from St. Louis to Seattle and seeing the sights in between. I stopped by here to see the lodge and the lake views and grabbed the cache to boot. Thanks for the fun!

Found it 08/19/2018 By Sill340

Found it 08/19/2018 By kennylk
Convenient parking near the sign, didn't take too long for my 12 year to find!

Found it 08/09/2018 By LoveTraveling
Found it! TFTC

Found it 08/08/2018 By diaphi
Working on the geotour. Getting closer. Tftc.

Found it 06/17/2017 By dustyriver
Good cache on this beautiful day in the high country