GC4HDF4 Traditional Cache Kings Flat
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular Regular | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: SAMANTHA1234 and Hamlets1967 @ | Hide Date: 07/28/2013 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 47.717 W105° 32.460 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Recommended for kids  Takes less than an hour  Scenic view  Available at all times 
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Kings Flat

Kings Flat is the flat grassy area to the southwest of the ghost town of Nevadaville, Colorado. The Flats is unique for Gilpin County in that it is a fairly large flat area. Most of the county is mountainous terrain with gulches and steep slopes.  Nevadaville was very much a family oriented gold mining community. The school had a large student population relative to the size of the population. The Kings flat area was evidently left relatively open then, as it is today.

The citizens of Nevadaville, both school age and adults, used the flats to play baseball. During the heyday of the town (mid 1860s to 1920) baseball was the sport to play. There were organized regular teams for the youngsters of school age. The town had an adult team called the Nevada Stars, pictured below. Every community in the mining areas of Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties had a town team like the “Stars”.  Central City by contrast had an actual baseball field with stands for the spectators as did Idaho Springs.

 

 

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Found it 09/11/2018 By J&J Team Yukon
Greetings from Oklahoma. Took a little road trip from where we are staying to do a little caching. Very neat old area. Took TB to move along TFTH

Found it 08/22/2018 By 2lablovers
Day 3 of 3 days in the mountains finding caches, checking on our caches, gambling and even hiding 2 caches. We were lucky - it was supposed to rain starting about noon but held off until we were almost home. Thanks for the history and picture of the baseball team. Enjoyed reading it. Left a TB.

Found it 07/27/2018 By cajrrman
I decided to head for the hills around Central City for some caching today. I made the find here at 10:27 am. Thanks for the cache!

Found it 07/13/2018 By MattieMarie
Thanks! Fun find for kids!!

Found it 06/17/2018 By matthew_mooney
Large cache!