GC11F96 Traditional Cache Veteran's Memorial cache
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: Explorer99 @ | Hide Date: 03/14/2007 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N37° 25.560 W105° 25.196 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 28
Dogs  Recommended for kids  Takes less than an hour  Available at all times  Parking available  Bicycles  Motorcycles 
A micro located in a small park just off Highway 159.

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Congratulations to jeeperz 1&2 for being FTF.
The cache is located in the Costilla County Veteran's Park near Fort Garland, Colorado. Access is from a short dirt road off of Highway 159 just south of the railroad crossing. Cache is log only so bring your own pen. Should be an easy find as accuracy was 7.7 feet during my location average and there are only a few places to hide it.

For those interested in the aircraft on display: The Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star is an American-built jet trainer aircraft. It was produced by Lockheed and made its first flight in 1948, piloted by Tony LeVier. The T-33 was developed from the Lockheed P-80/F-80 starting as TP-80C/TF-80C in development, then designated T-33A.
The two-place T-33 proved to be a suitable advanced trainer, and it has been used for such tasks as drone director and target towing, and some T-33s retained two machine guns for gunnery training. In some countries, the T-33 was even employed as a combat aircraft. The RT-33A version, reconnaissance aircraft produced primarily for use by foreign countries, had a camera installed in the nose and additional equipment in the rear cockpit. T-33s continued to fly as currency trainers, drone towing, combat and tactical simulation training, "hack" aircraft, electronic countermeasures and warfare training and test platforms right into the 1980s.

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23 Logs: Found it 23  

Found it 07/05/2019 By Boeing737
On a US/Canadian holiday from Australia with JetFuselage and WhiteChocolateMocha. What a beautiful memorial with poignant sculpture and the plane. TFTC

Found it 06/30/2019 By pitfeder
# 8354 @ 14:07

Grüezi-Hello

Abrakadabra.
6 weeks vacation with crazy Bebbigirl in the northwest and midwest of the USA. The headquarters in Seattle visited, the APE and many other beautifuls Geocaches in 12 Countrys.

Simsalabim.
No Muggles here. a good Place. We sleep here in the near overnight. An the BBQ-Fire we becom new Friends from Colorado.

I like geocache-tours on this planet. With cars or with my motobike. Last Year i was 4 weeks in mongolia.
The Gobi-Desert. Not so many Geocache.

Thanks „Explorer99“ for this Memorial-Cache.

Many Greetings from Geocache Team Switzerland,
"Bebbigirl & Pitfeder" Basel

Found it 06/30/2019 By Bebbigirl
Mit Pitfeder auf USA-Tour...

Diesen interessanten Ort bestaunt.

TFTC

Grüsse aus der Schweiz

Found it 06/27/2019 By dot2teach
Thank you for your service!

Found it 06/22/2019 By Nepal17
Nice easy find and first Colorado cache. Liked the plane. TFTC!

Found it 10/10/2018 By White Spirit Bears
Tftc. Nice memorial

Found it 10/09/2018 By GeoHunter..
Our second big trip this year. This time more mid country hunting for the oldest caches in the states. Our trip started in Kansas City, MO and continued through Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, the most NW corner of Texas, New Mexico to culminate in Colorado. It rained all day first three days but that did not stop us to accomplish our goals and some. Colorado Springs welcomed us with the snow and below freezing temperatures. But the hunt must go on... Maggie :) and I enjoyed this beautiful country, the scenery, the animals, the food and friendly people.

TFTHunt

Found it 10/09/2018 By Maggie :)
A little gem on our way. Love the place. Paid our respect and gratitude. TFTC

Found it 10/06/2018 By thehobbitfamily
beautiful memorial. made a nice stop on our way back to Denver from great sand dunes np. tftc!!

Found it 09/25/2018 By rklmbl
This looked to be on the side of the road, but it takes some driving back and down a dirt road to get here. Cool memorial. Almost missed the cache. Had to circle that hiding spot twice then came back to the most obvious place to look and this time the light was right or mbl was looking more up than down and soon saw the cache and signed the log. All is well here. A lady stopped and asked directions to the reservoir and we told her we didn't live here either, but we showed it to her on the map and told her to keep going and there would most likely be signs. Thanks for this cache and for bringing us here.

Found it 08/31/2018 By Rotorootie
On a Harley trip tavelling around Colorado and finding some caches along the way. SL T4TC

Found it 08/24/2018 By P.D.C.
Traveling to the Colorado State Fair and stopping for a few caches. TFTC and smiley. Memorial gets a favorite from us.

Found it 08/23/2018 By Leapin' Lee
Thanks for the tribute. SL

Found it 08/20/2018 By IowaGerd
I found that bugger.

Found it 08/17/2018 By Texasblood
TFTC. First cache in Colorado!!

Found it 08/11/2018 By MsYB
Traveling with YankaBucs and found this cache. SL. TFTC
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Found it 08/11/2018 By YankaBucs
Headed to Sand Dunes and thought we would stop at this memorial to get this Cache. SL - TFTC
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Found it 08/10/2018 By Alaskachers
Nice hide!

Found it 08/10/2018 By kynar
We made it more difficult than it needed to be but managed the grab!! Tftc

Found it 08/07/2018 By TheHuntingHuffs
Made a quick find in this awesome place! We would have never known this was down here if it wasn't for this geocache. Thank you for placing it and adding a great little stop to our trip!
TheHuntingHuffs
Cutty's Resort
Coaldale, CO

Found it 08/06/2018 By HarvestMoon2
Took a trip to the Sand Dunes today to grab some caches. FWIA, Izzifix and I had a great time and great day. Thanks to all the COs for putting these out for us to find. SL HM2

Found it 08/05/2018 By Izzifix
More luck this time! After visiting the Sand Dunes we headed back to Olney Springs. We made a stop at this cache. The DNFs before sounded not really good...when we visited this place one year before the cache was gone too. So we were very surprised that we spotted the cache in less then 30 seconds. Thanks for showing this nice place! best regards, Izzifix

Found it 08/05/2018 By FWIA
Ah yes, back in beautiful Colorado with Izzifix & Harvestmoon2 for family time.

Today was our day to visit The Great Sand Dunes National Park. We got a couple of Earthcaches and a Virtual but decided hiking to to High Dune was not for us today. We still enjoyed the beauty and geology here.

Thanks to all the CO’s for placing the caches we enjoyed hunting. Much appreciated!

This was our 2nd visit here with the first stop being last September while driving to California. DNF’d the first visit so glad to avenge it