GCXHG5 Beyond Baldwin
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: GunniGirl @ | Hide Date: 08/05/2006 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 47.981 W107° 01.138 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
                   

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Baldwin, Colorado, was once a gold and coal mining settlement and a stop on the Denver and Rio Grande and the Denver, South Park and Pacific railroad lines. Now it is less than a ghost town: one intact cabin which still appears to be used at least part of the time and a few bits and pieces of structures from long ago, all on private property.

At geocaching.com, however, Baldwin is alive and well. When the zip code for Gunnison, Colorado, is typed into the Geocaching "Seek a Cache" page, this is what is displayed: All Geocaches By Postal Code - From State: CO (BALDWIN - 81230).

In spite of this, since the rest of history has moved beyond Baldwin, I did, too, to hide a cache.

Access to the cache is on a remarkably smooth dirt road. The road is probably quite muddy when wet, but it dries quickly once the sun hits it. It is unlikely that the cache would be accessible in winter. The road can be driven by car. Often, quite a few marmots can be seen on or near the road. Watch for cattle, horseback riders, and people herding cattle by horseback on the road.

The cache is an ammo can. There is a short uphill walk involved, which can leave you breathless at that altitude.

Original contents were:

mini lint roller
magic 8 ball
Colorado keyring
plastic snake
Colorado refrigerator magnet
log book and pencil
brand new green Jeep travel bug

Due to confusion caused by a private road's appearing on many maps, additional driving directions are encrypted below.

07/16/2014 By MikeandDixieJ
Great ride up the road. The wildflowers are always beautiful in the meadows. Enjoyed the history lesson. TFTC.

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

06/25/2014 By SoldierGrrrl
TFTC, made the grab with CB_Beauty. Only passed two people the entire trip out here, from where we turned off the county road until the cache. The hike up the hill winded us a bit, more than it should have. Geo-dog was happy to get out and stretch his legs on the hill. This was a gorgeous drive here scenery.

11/09/2013 By farmer05
Picked up both the geocoin and TB. Will be moving them on soon. I believe I will be the last visitor to this cache this year. Hear comes the snow.

08/26/2013 By elko dealers
Great area up Carbon Creek, so we took lots of pictures. No TB in Cache.
SL L-TB
Great colors going to the creek.

Another View of the Carbon Creek(Great Colors)
View of Mt. from cache.
View #2

05/25/2013 By bt15
goecaching with extremematt! TFTC

05/25/2013 By extremematt
beautiful area! TFTC

05/20/2012 By Riverchaser
Beautiful day to be in the area and out caching. Missed the cabin area but found the cache. This was our 500th find! Thanks for the hide.

09/09/2011 By bonehead73
Great little walk in an awesome area! TFTC SL

08/16/2011 By Team Roadkill
TFTF