GC1V5NMCochetopa/Crossroads
Type: Traditional
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By: geg940@
| Hide Date: 06/21/2009
| Status: Available
Country: United States
| State: Colorado Coordinates: N38° 10.846 W106° 42.312 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
This is just off the main road. Should be pretty easy to find. Log only, bring you own pen. Might not be accessible in winter.This is the 9th cache in the Cochetopa series. I'm calling this one "Crossroads" because at this point you have a choice to make! Any one of the following would be a good one!! From here if you were to go south on NN14, you could go to Dome Lakes, from there you could turn at the north end of the Upper Dome Lake (15GG) or at the next turn (KK14) and end up in Lake City via Los Pinos Pass and Deer Lakes. Plan several hours in getting there, this is a beautiful drive!! If you were to turn north on NN14 you would go over the Old Cochetopa Pass. This was the original route from Lake City to Saguache. Dome Lakes were built later, so the road went from Lake City via Los Pinos Pass, through the Old Agency, an 1880's Ute Reservation, to the present day Cochetopa Dome Ranch, a stage stop, and continuing around Cochetopa Dome to the north, to the Old Pass. This road followed the early Ute hunting and migration trail. The pass road NN14 south will come out on CO Hwy 114 closer to Saguache. Either of these drives would be super glorious in September, seeing all the fall folliage!! But neither one is maintained in winter. You could follow NN14 north a few miles and turn toward Saguache Park. This is a several thousand acre playground summer and winter within the Gunnison National Forest. Summer you can camp, fish, ride motorcycles or ATVs, 2 or 4 wheel drives will work most places, on designated roads of course. The park is a summer grazing allotment for a large cattle pool. In the fall you can hunt, and in the winter you can ride snow mobiles in the wide open spaces. You can take GG17, or NN14 past Dome Lakes ending up back on CO Hwy 114 and pavement. Bring a picnic lunch, plenty of water and plan to spend the day exploring the country around the “Cochetope” as the old timers call it!
05/26/2019 By $rustyjones$ Camping in the National Forest here on Memorial Day weekend. This is Gods Country! Have had weather for all 4 seasons at the campsite. First time here and we know we will be back. Did not have a GPS with me, so just use your geosense and the hint, $RJ$ also made a little paper map to help find the cache. Cache is in fine shape, added a wire to keep cache in place. Not much geocaching going on out here. Sure would have been nice to see a herd of The Pass of the Buffalo! SL. TFTC. $RJ$
06/19/2017 By Goonch I did not expect to find this one after nearly 4 years of inactivity, but BAM! right where I thought it should be. Container is in fine shape and log is dry. TFTC. SL.
08/04/2013 By elko dealers We are caching Hwy. 114 & Co 14 today and finding some great caches. Thanks for all the fun. SL TN LN T4TH
09/22/2012 By flutiste Easy find. Now that RockDok and I are more familiar with micros and nanos, we know how to find them, and we know that we HATE them! This one, however, was a fun hunt, and not a painful one. Very nice view of the distant aspen-covered hills from this crossroad, and a good start to our leaf-peeping trip over OLD Cochetopa Pass. TFTC
08/31/2011 By Back Country Horsemen On our way to the Wilderness to do some riding & geocaching along the way.
08/20/2011 By tj47 Enjoyed the hunt...thanks for such a great cache location
Cochetopa/Crossroads
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Thanks for all the fun.