GC5YJGB Gone Fishin'
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: mt.lovers @ | Hide Date: 07/01/2015 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 11.225 W105° 51.911 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
                           

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This is a great location to start your Grand fishing experience as you are at the shore of the largest water storage reservoir in the C-BT Project (Lake Granby), and the second largest body of water in the state, with 40 miles of shoreline.  Lake Granby provides some of the best Colorado fishing waters for trout and Kokanee Salmon.  Development along the lake shoreline is minimal as the lake is surrounded by government property.

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Construction of the Lake Granby Dam started in late 1942 as part of the Colorado - Big Thompson Project.  The Colorado River was flowing through the rich farmlands of this valley that would eventually become the bottom of Lake Granby when the dam was completed, and would be surrounded by the Arapaho National Forest, Arapaho National Recreation Area, and Indian Peaks Wilderness Area.. Even though there was a work stoppage on the dam construction during World War II, it was finally completed and water started to fill up Lake Granby on September 14th, 1949.

There was very little land available around the lake for commercial and residential development, but one of the commercial developments that resided on the lake to your right as you look at the lake was the Beacon Boatel and Marina.  It consisted of eight hotel units and a cabin called "The Beach House" where the owner lived, and had boats available for the guests.  Tourists from all over Colorado, especially fishermen, came to this Boatel and enjoyed their time fishing and visiting the local sites. In the early 1970's the Carpenters bought the marina and owned it for a short three years, and then sold it to the McCloskeys who owned it for nine years.  In 1997 the Casteels bought the Beacon Landing Marina and in 2001 burned down the old hotel units and house with the help of the local fire departments.  They subsequently built some condominiums on the property and included a full service fishing gear and bait supply store, along with boats available for rental.  In 2014, the Debevecs purchased the marina.

If you have a few spare lures in your tackle box, trade them for one that is there or just leave them for the next fisherman.

 

Additional Waypoints

P15YJGB - County Road 64
N 40° 11.225 W 105° 51.911
Park along the side of the road in the general area of the cache. Do not park in any of the driveways. Thanks.

07/01/2019 By SBAB1214
Oh boy to look where I think it is or is that illegal? I looked. I was right. TFTC!

06/30/2019 By apple nut
Nut went right to it. Left a trackable(jb4fxc) I assume this is a rural area. I am so glad to see areas that I normally would not see if I was not geocaching. TFTC

06/30/2019 By Sl8rz
I didn't want to look here!

06/19/2019 By conwaymd
Beautiful view!! Thank you!

06/17/2019 By Hanakiso
Great container! Tftc

10/19/2018 By MarilynGrandLake
What a fun container!

10/17/2018 By Team Gilo
Came to Lakewood to visit Son and Grandsons. Working on finishing our Across the Divide geotour today. All well at this cache. Thanks for the smiley and to all the people who put this tour together. Hello from OKC!

10/06/2018 By SeekDaCache
We were so looking forward to attending and caching our way to and around the Celebrating Historic Grand Lake Event. We had received an email last night from one of the hosts that Trail Ridge Road was closed due to ice and snow, and that the event might be canceled. Mr SDC informed me that we weren't taking Trail Ridge Road to get to Grand Lake. I emailed the host back to let her know and she made arrangements to have another host there in the event we decided to chance the weather spoiling our day. We are so glad we went ahead with our plans as we had an amazing day caching and enjoying the end of the changing of the Aspens . The weather started out a bit iffy with some light rain and fog but cleared up nicely as we got deeper in the mountains. We managed to grab most of the Across The Divide GeoTour 2018 caches along with some others. Very nice hide and camo, SL, TNLN, TFTC


Thank you mt.lovers for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

10/04/2018 By FredTheElf
Previous activity gave us the courage to find the cache!

09/28/2018 By geojrh
Found while re-visiting this fun area. A favorite

08/14/2018 By AntonEtsii
TFTC

07/30/2018 By RPieperCO
Thanks for the fun cache! Grabbed this one while on our way to the island event nearby. All is in good order.

07/29/2018 By Butano
Grabbed this one after the island event (late logging). Interesting hide. TFTC

07/29/2018 By Kerewin0430
Signed after the island event! Thanks for placing a good-sized container out here.

07/29/2018 By Cryptosporidium-623
Found today before the kraken was unleashed on our boating event. This will be the closet I'll ever be going to this property again. LOL

Thank you for placing this cache, Mt. Lovers. It's one of my favorite types!