GC1173 Traditional Cache Green Mountain 2
Type: Traditional | Size: Other Other | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 3 out of 5
By: Rick Gonzales @ | Hide Date: 07/18/2001 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 42.054 W105° 10.756 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 11
Dogs  Takes less than an hour  Scenic view  No Difficult climbing  Available during winter  Dangerous Animals  Not Wheelchair accessible  Bicycles  No Motorcycles  No Quads  No Off-road vehicles  No Snowmobiles  Horses  No Campfires  Medium hike (1km-10km) 
In Lakewood's Green Mountain Park, southwest of Denver. Close to trails just west and downhill from highest point.
Container is a steel Army surplus ammunition box (6" X 11" X 7") laying under a lone bush at 6863 ft elev, 25 ft away from a 4-way trail intersection, about 100 yards west (downhill) of the highest point* on the mountain. Do not go off trail until closing in distance to the waypoint is less than about 50 feet, as this cache accessible by FOLLOWING EXISTING trails and dirt road. Resist the urge to bushwhack.

Watch out for snakes in the grass or sunning on the trails (wear long pants and boots)! Approach from the Green Mountain WEST parking lot (6125 ft elev) which is off of Rooney Road, along C-470. The East parking lots (Alameda Pkwy) are much further away. Expect to walk/hike about 3 miles roundtrip (to top of mountain) from West parking lot. Carry Water. Please do not leave matches, food or drink. Sign the logbook and enjoy the view, then log your find to this site when you get home.

*Bonus: There is a USGS benchmark named "Green Mountain" at the highest point, mounted on a large rock. This appears on most topo maps.

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West Green Mountain parking lot, cross C-470 on foot bridge and proceed up dirt road winding to highest point. Turn right to hike to highest point from road. Head down trail west until 4-way intersection. Look for bush at right diagonal (northwest) about 25 feet away. Box at base of bush.

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16 Logs: Found it 14  Write note 1  Owner Maintenance 1  

Found it 07/05/2019 By Edwards654
Logging this one from the top of the mountain. So excited we got here today. Played volleyball morning and then made the fire Road trek up to this one. Earned rhus one. Filld a spot on our jasmer. T f t c

Found it 05/18/2019 By kb0rpw
Excellent directions

Owner Maintenance 04/24/2019 By gonzobiker
Thanks for the manual logbook entries over the years. The logbook is almost full so I removed it. Will replace with a fresh logbook soon.

Found it 04/05/2019 By billkat
Fun to find the old ones. Tftc!

Write note 03/31/2019 By tugglet
Found

Found it 09/08/2018 By WhiskeyBit
Beautiful day on Green Mtn. TNLNSL TFTC!!

Found it 08/09/2018 By SkiOcacher
TFTC

Found it 08/01/2018 By Petr L.
Great place and very nice cache. Thank you. Today's #2

Found it 07/14/2018 By Weatherman64
Out caching with with penhead63 filling in the month's hidden challenge. Awesome location and views! Took both trackables and pathtag since hardly anyone comes up here anymore. TFTC!

Found it 07/14/2018 By penhead63
Made the hike and made the find. Filling in my months / year Hidden grid and this was one I needed. Loved the view but the hike kicked my butt! LOL TFTC!!

Found it 12/02/2017 By Heeesh and Wanda T.
TFTC! SL. TNLN. The view from the top (close to here) is amazing!

Found it 09/29/2017 By misterslam
Awesome view from the top. TFTC! #764

Found it 09/03/2017 By Scaber
Thank you for placing this cache and helping to keep our recreation going.

Found it 07/13/2017 By onerundun
In from Virginia Beach, enjoying the hiking & caching!

Found it 06/24/2017 By Gemini Mission
Green mountain is a lovely hike watch out for the rattlesnakes in the bicyclists but otherwise it's a great walk. TFTC.

Found it 05/24/2017 By billy robson
This was quite a walk up there I was certainly painting by the time I got to the top, but the view was worth it and a :-).
The old ones that I've been looking for.
TFTC