GCG4GY Alkali Trail
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Yankeeboy @ | Hide Date: 05/18/2003 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 12.711 W107° 44.059 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 3
                     

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Parking spot for this cache is just off of Hwy.550, just past the Dutch Charlie entrance to Ridgway State Park. Approx. 0.74 hike from where you park, which is N 38 12.411 W 107 43.917. Great trail. If you park at this spot you will need to go through a gate, but you will not have to pay to get into the park. This is public parking and public access. You can also go in the Dutch Charlie entrance, but a park fee or pass is required and the walk to the cache much shorter.

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Kid Friendly Cache In - Trash Out! Night caching Dogs Allowed Available year-round Bicycles permitted on paths Restrooms available Accessible in Winter Scenic View

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is a .50 mm ammo box. Its contents are: dog treats, chew ezz dog chew, candle, action race car, Mardi Gras beads, Home Depot tape measure/key ring and log book with pen and mechanical pencil. After parking you will go through the gate and start on the trail. It is a gradual incline most of the way. Just a couple of steeper parts but nothing to worry about. When you come to a Y which is .61 mile from where you parked (N 38 12.812 W 107 44.103) take the right ( it will head you almost in the direction you just came from. You will come upon a great over look of the reservoir and the San Juan Mountains. From this point you are on your own and also very close. After finding the cache and logging into the log book, please hide the cache as well as you can for this area gets a lot of traffic and if not hidden well could be spotted by others. In the Colorado Atlas this trail is marked as Alkali trail. When I followed it to the entrance to Dutch Charlie there is a sign that says Cookie Tree Trail. I went by what was in the atlas and not the one the park came up with. Please let me know if I am wrong on this name. Thanks to TwoOldBears (of Ridgeway), who were kind enough to e-mail me the answer to the discrepancy in the trail name of Alkali Trail. I knew of it as being Alkali, but then also found out it was called Cookie Tree Trail. Below will explain the two names. This is the e-mail that I received from TwoOldBears. Once again, I would like to extend my thanks to them for this information In your Alkali Trail cache (which we enjoyed, TFTC) you ask in your description about the discrepency in the trail names (Alkali Trail vs. Cookie Tree Trail). The park's name for the trail is a memorial of the Cookie Tree Ranch which is the property that was covered by the lake when the dam was finished & the reservoir began filling in 1987. The park opened in 1989. Between 1884 & 1920 that ranchland was owned by Charles Doelz ("Dutch Charlie") and Alkali Creek ran along the northeast boundary of his land. Thus the origin of the two differing trail names.


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07/04/2019 By okls1596
Thanks! A nice walk to the cache container. There is a wonderful view nearby.

07/04/2019 By hortcacher
OKLS1596 and I decided to stop here on our way to Montrose to have a log in Ouray County. We are pulling a travel trailer so this site had advantages by providing a place to park our rig. It is definitely a busy 4th of July here! TFTC!

07/03/2019 By nerd8622
Tftc

06/24/2019 By rangerhal
Stayed in the park overnight while traveling through the area. Nice place will have to return. Glad to find a cache in the park. Grabbed this well stocked cache before leaving the park. Thanks for the hide!

06/22/2019 By hounddogkeeper
Jeff and Klipdogg’s first find

09/30/2018 By Skratch-N-Sniff
No Indians home! Quite Sunday morning! Quick find- TB already missing!!! Hope it’s logged soon! Thanks for the regular size cache!

09/22/2018 By Jeeppirate
Cool find , took a small picture frame and left a tractable 7995881

09/05/2018 By sharting4you
No longer under the deck. Get FIRED up!

09/02/2018 By Bronco461
Moved this cache closer to coordinates...not readily visible to muggles but still fun. Look low, think firewood.

09/01/2018 By McKaila
Thanks!

08/06/2018 By Jsta7678
Yeah

07/28/2018 By Catt8876
Found

07/27/2018 By dahanson6@gmail.com
Took our nephew on his first Geocaching adventure. TNLN. Great cache. TFTF!

07/18/2018 By mandybarnes
Took my husband here for his first catch! We really enjoyed it, TFTC!

07/09/2018 By trekcolo12
Nice find on a warm evening walk. D
Made a drop.

06/23/2018 By LOWGO02
Tftc. Sl. Beautiful overlook! Enjoyed camping at Ridgeway State Park from Golden, Co.

06/23/2018 By reherlife
Tftc SL. Beautiful Ridgeway. Enjoying our sunny Saturday with family!

06/16/2018 By SusanCT

06/15/2018 By slade2029
About 70 ft away but easy

06/15/2018 By maxsslade
Big green box