GC2B6ZM Traditional Cache Virginia Dale Stage Station
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: James Bridger @ | Hide Date: 07/04/2010 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 57.437 W105° 21.280 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Dogs  Takes less than an hour  Scenic view  No Difficult climbing  Available at all times  Parking available  Stealth required  No Medium hike (1km-10km) 

The Overland Trail was a stagecoach and wagon trail during the 19th century. While portions of the route had been used by explorers and trappers since the 1820s, the Overland Trail was most heavily used in the 1860s as an alternative route to the Oregon, California and Mormon trails through central Wyoming. The Overland Trail was famously used by the Overland Stage Company owned by Ben Holladay to run mail and passengers to Salt Lake City, Utah via stagecoaches in the early 1860s. Starting from Atchison, Kansas the trail descended into Colorado before looping back up to southern Wyoming and rejoining the Oregon Trail at Fort Bridger. The stage line operated until 1869 when the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad eliminated the need for mail service via stagecoach.

Information about the Overland Trail gleaned from Wikipedia

To view a map that details a section of the trail from Julesburg to Fort Bridger, click here. Below is a picture of the Virginia Dale Station taken by William Henry Jackson in the late 1800's.

Virginia Dale Station

This cache is hidden near a historical marker that shares some history of the Virginia Dale Station. There is ample parking on both sides of the road, so this cache can be captured by both north and south bound travelers. Take a moment to learn some history and stretch your legs. You are looking for a one inch by three inch container. Please respect the area, CITO if needed, practice stealth, and please rehide the cache as you find it for the next cacher. Thank you and good luck.


Congratulations "poudrecacher" : First to Find - July 06, 2010

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12 Logs: Found it 12  

Found it 06/30/2019 By tylergarcialater
Awesome find

Found it 06/28/2019 By Team Shydog
Stopped on the way up to Medicine Bow today. Nice quick find. Put pen to paper, read the plaque and headed on down the road. Thanks for the smiley.

Chris-Team Shydog
Monticello, IN

Found it 06/23/2019 By rfmetz
Thanks for the history lesson and TFTC. SL.
Bob

Found it 05/29/2019 By KRABONK
Auf dem Weg von Wyoming nach Colorado haben wir hier einen Stopp eingelegt und den Cache gesucht und gefunden.
Danke sagt das Team Krabonk
Thanks you for the cache

Found it 02/15/2019 By Alpenist
TFTC Found this cache on my way to Salt Lake for my brother's wedding.

Found it 09/04/2018 By Casper&Aero
Notre périple a débuté le 22 août dernier et nous amènera à visiter douze états Américains et deux provinces Canadiennes... Notre départ s'est fait à partir de Baie-Comeau, une ville sur la Côte Nord du Québec pour ensuite se poursuivre quelques jours à Québec où nous avons fait un peu de Géocaching.... Par la suite, nous avons fait un arrêt à St-Eustache et Ville de Laval, toujours au Québec, pour ensuite prendre l'avion et arriver à Portland, Oregon... Nous avons fait un arrêt le 28 août à Umatilla toujours en Oregon, le 29 août à Boise en Idaho, le 30 à Twin Falls et le 31 nous sommes à Salt Lake City pour deux jours... Le 2 septembre nous étions à Rock Springs, Wyoming et hier nous avons fait un arrêt à Laramie, Wyoming... Aujourd’hui nous continuons notre périple vers Colorado Spring où nous passerons deux jours...

Pendant tout le voyage nous avons ciblé quelques caches qui nous aideront à atteindre nos objectifs personnels et nous découvrirons certainement de nouveaux endroits que les Géocacheurs d'ici voudront nous faire découvrir... Nous préparons ce voyage depuis plusieurs mois et savons que nous ne pourrons pas tout voir par manque de temps... Il y a beaucoup de caches mais devons fermer les yeux ne pouvant toutes les trouver... Mais c'est avec plaisir que nous apposerons notre signature sur certaines d'entre-elles...

Merci pour la création de ces caches qui ajoutent des sourires à notre profil et qui nous font passer du bon temps peu importe l'humeur de Dame Nature... Notre log sera le même pour toute la journée et s'il y a une particularité nous l'ajouterons au début du texte... Des favoris seront ajoutés ici et là pour tout le travail accompli... MPLC

Casper&Aero de Baie-Comeau, Québec, Canada


Our English is not perfect, we use Google Translate to help us ...

Our journey began last August 22 and will take us to visit twelve US states and two Canadian provinces ... Our departure was from Baie-Comeau, a city on the North Shore of Quebec and then continue for a few days in Quebec City where we did some Geocaching .... Then we stopped at St-Eustache and Ville de Laval, still in Quebec, and then flew to Portland, Oregon... We made stop in Umatilla on August 28 still in Oregon, August 29 in Boise, Idaho, August 30 in Twin Falls and August 31st we are in Salt Lake City for two days... The 2nd of september we were in Rock Springs. Wyoming and yesterday the road brought us to Laramie, Wyoming... Today our trip will take us to Colorado Springs where we will stay for two days

Throughout the trip we have targeted some caches that will help us achieve our personal goals and we will certainly discover new places that Geocachers here will want us to discover ... We have been planning this trip for several months and know we will not be able to not all see for lack of time ... There are many caches but we must close our eyes can not find them all ... But it is with pleasure that we will put our signature on some of them ...

Thank you for creating these caches that add smiles to our profile and make us have a good time regardless of the mood of Mother Nature ... Our log will be the same for the whole day and if there is a particularity we will add it at the beginning of the text ... Favorites will be added here and there for all the work done ... TFTC

Casper&Aero from Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada

Found it 09/01/2018 By tronaminer
Came from Green River Wy travelling to Estes Park Colorado. Finding caches along the way. Thanks for your cache and the fun we had in finding it.

Found it 08/21/2018 By CarlinCOblue
A bit of a late entry, but found on a road trip north to Longmire Days. Traveling with a muggle sucks when they have no interest! But it was a beautiful trip! TFTC found on 8/10/18

Found it 08/20/2018 By FresnoDancingFool
I stopped, got out, walked around the back of my geovan, and there was something screaming at me "I'm here!" And need it was; this was a QEF and a nice history lesson for me; nice job and TFTC!

Found it 08/17/2018 By Von-Horst
A quick find to break up the journey.

TFTC

Found it 07/26/2018 By haasport
To simple hard turn

Found it 07/26/2018 By fazzarifamily5
Found with Haasport on roadtrip from Washington state. TFTC