GC8V1PG Traditional Cache Colorado Spirit Quest #523 - Miller Hill Cemetery
Type: Traditional | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: momcheers @ | Hide Date: 06/14/2020 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 53.045 W108° 17.465 | Last updated: 06/19/2022 | Fav points: 0
Takes less than an hour  Dangerous Animals  Ticks  Watch for livestock 

Miller Hill (Piceance) Cemetery has approximately 52 burials.   It is a well kept cemetery off County Rd 5 in Rural Rio Blanco County.   CR 5 has lots of truck traffic so please be careful -- you are in oil and gas territory!

When traveling North on Piceance Creek Road -- coming from Hwy 13 -- the road to the Cemetery is approx 1 mile past CR 26 -- approx 2/10th mile past MM 24. -- So you are about 24.2 miles from Hwy 13 -- but this one qualifies on Delorme page 33 so that's a bonus - and there is another cemetery within 3 miles of this one that has a cache!   It's a great drive which can take you several places and the cache is probably going to be available year round -- depending on when the last snow storm blew through!
 

 

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“COLORADO SPIRIT QUEST”

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There are hundreds of cemeteries in the rural and mountain communities across Colorado.  This series will introduce you to many of them.

The cache pages will provide a virtual history tour of the cemeteries and tombstones.

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R08V1PG - TURN OFF ROAD HERE
N 39° 53.060 W 108° 17.417
Turn off County Rd 5 here!
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CodeNameTypeCommentsDateCoordinatesDistance
R08V1PGTURN OFF ROAD HERE Reference Point Turn off County Rd 5 here! 06/14/2020 N 39° 53.060 W 108° 17.417 0.07 kms E 

 Hints

The cache is on the OUTSIDE of the cemetery fence -- approx 130' south of the Cemetery gate.

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3 Logs: Found it 2  Publish Listing 1  

Found it 06/29/2020 By Grand Junction Dad
Nice find after getting the Black Sulphur Cemetery cache. That's a totally cool gate. I didn't realize you had a picture of it until I came to log it just now.

Like a lot of things, I've driven past this cemetery a lot of times, and never even knew it was here. From the aerial views, it looks like it would be heavily disturbed by the neighboring industrial uses, but the hill is set high enough above them that you'd never know they're there.

Couldn't sign the log because my pen died, so I'm uploading a picture of the log with where my name should be!

Thanks for placing these!

Found it 06/22/2020 By Windcryer
TFTF! First time ever FTF with undercover_mermaid! Thanks!

Publish Listing 06/14/2020 By IgnotusPeverell
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