GCJWHN Traditional Cache End of the South Park Line
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular Regular | Difficulty: 2.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 2 out of 5
By: BarLazyM @ | Hide Date: 07/03/2004 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 49.280 W107° 04.505 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 4
At base of Ohio Pass, Gunnison side.
As you travel north toward Ohio Pass from Gunnison, after the Beaver Pond hiking area, and just before the road turns and becomes steep, take the small road to the right. This is the road bed of the Denver, South Park, and Pacific RR. High on your left is a rock wall, which was also to be the road bed, but was never completed. After you see the sign describing the 'End of the South Park Line', walk a short distance along the road, then head up, toward the rock wall. Cache is at base of talus, but not in the talus. Clear, 1/2 gallon, plastic jar.Original Contents:Compass, Dinosaur, Dog, Bear magnet, Goat, Squirt Gun Camera.
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Behind rock on your left as you face rock wall. Vegetation may obscure it.

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13 Logs: Found it 13  

Found it 09/18/2018 By Team J&K
Another GREAT hide by Geocaching. Lots of history.
Wish we could have hiked up to the palisades but it looked way too high for us flatlanders.
Thanks for the history lesson.
A favorite for sure from this DSP&P fan.

Found it 09/08/2018 By J-S-M
Good spot for kids. Nice little hike but nothing strenuous. Cache was empty expect for log book. We left some goodies.

Found it 08/27/2018 By Hikermama3
Found it, log is damp and cache had water in it. So I dried it out and got out the little bits of wet, trashy stuff that were in the cache . I don’t have any plastic bags or any other cool toys with me to put in there the only thing in there is the log. But tftc, wouldn’t have known to come up just Road otherwise.

Found it 07/31/2018 By CArsRmyLife
Cool spot. Never would’ve come down this little road without the cash. TFTC

Found it 10/01/2016 By montananme
It was a lovely day with peak fall colors. Great to be able to log a find also. Interesting history of the rail line.

Found it 07/07/2016 By john4x4
Out picking up some caches along with GotWiine and AZ4x4s. Fun day to be out.

Found it 07/07/2016 By GotWine
Staying in near by campground for a few days. Out with John4x4 and AZ4x4s doing some site seeing and of course picking up some caches along the way. Thanks for the smiley face.

Found it 10/20/2015 By Z_Malloc
Great scramble up the hill, spooked some deer hiding down in the draw. I had the cache in hand in a few minutes and I even pondered climbing up to the actual wall for a few moments. Great history spot. Have a favorite point for the cool spot!

Found it 10/15/2014 By Weatherman64
TNLN - TFTC

Found it 07/06/2014 By MikeandDixieJ
Third find on our way up the Ohio creek road going towards Crested Butte. We missed this one last summer, so had to come back. Echo the comments from previous log, the history of the area is fascinating and putting caches at significant places helps get people to go visit them. TFTC.

Found it 06/25/2014 By SoldierGrrrl
TFTC, these are the reason I love geocaching. I love the history of the area, seeing the rock wall so high up and trying to see how a railroad would have ran through here. The placard at the campsite was very helpful. Made the grab with CB_Beauty.

Note to others...wear long pants and bring bug spray. Also, walk down the path until you see a rock the size of two basketballs, then head towards the cache. We turned too early and had to beat brush.

Found it 06/25/2014 By cb_beauty
TFTC. Geocaching with SoldierGrrrl.

Found it 09/08/2013 By ddiers
Nice hide. TNLN SL TFTF