GC2D3NG Traditional Cache Where the River Meets the Road
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular Regular | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 3 out of 5
By: cajrrman @ | Hide Date: 08/15/2010 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 24.906 W105° 09.197 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Dogs  Parking available  Bicycles 
The cache is hidden almost as far up the trail along the South Platte River as you can go without getting wet. Another few hundred feet and you will normally be in the flooded section of the river that comprises Strontia Springs Reservoir. You can get here by hiking or biking. You could also use a kayak and you might see some of those on the way.
This cache is the rehide of another cache of mine that I archived because of the lengthy closure of Waterton Canyon on the other side of the very same reservoir. That one was called Waterton Side Trail #5 (GC1MW31). It’s the same container – a nice ammo can. That cache was the most remote of the side trail series so I though I would make it the most remote on this side of the reservoir.

The trail that leads to this cache is what remains of the old Colorado and Southern railroad grade that went through Waterton.

You can get past the fence by using the weird step thingy (a stile). You might be able to go around the fence closer to the river but that was not possible on the day I hid the cache due to the level of the water in the river.

Rumor has it that there is a benchmark a bit farther downstream. Perhaps if the reservoir is low, you can get to it. (KK0688)

It is about a mile and a half from the parking area to the cache.
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The rocks around here are good for hiding a cache. It is on the side of the trail away from the river and requires a very short climb of about 4 or 5 feet. Coords can be iffy in the canyon.

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6 Logs: Found it 6  

Found it 10/05/2018 By Teriyaki Donuts
Awesome trail on a warm October morning! Thanks for the hide!

Found it 04/29/2018 By SirRooster
Easy find tftc

Found it 03/02/2018 By EJBHGV
Out touring in the mountains on the great spring day.
Found 20 caches on the day.
All CO's thanks for hiding and maintaining.
Last one for the day,

Found it 09/28/2017 By Bhob
Went for a drive south-west of the Denver metro area with "animjason" - this was the seventh of fifteen geocaches that I found along the way. TN-LN-SL, Thanks !

Found it 09/28/2017 By animjason
Was fun hiking to the end and watching some people fish. Water much calmer here. Thanks for the fun.

Left a trackable here.

Thanks cajrrman! Logged Where the River Meets the Road from a seventh galaxy using c:geo!

~ Cache find #9109 ~

Found it 06/19/2017 By Greasepot
Last cache of the day. I'm glad it was nice and quick, and that I didn't have to do any more scrambling in the poison ivy. I really hope that I don't get too many breakouts from it. This whole trail has tons of it. 11:48:00 AM% Thanks!