GC7B73YBeautiful Garden of the Gods
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By: Golden B's@
| Hide Date: 08/24/2017
| Status: Available
Country: United States
| State: Colorado Coordinates: N38° 52.706 W104° 52.831 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
PLEASE NOTE: To log this virtual reward, you simply need to locate the dedication plaque (pictured below) at ground zero, and take a photo of yourself in front of it. Your face does not have to be in the photo. To ensure new photos, yours needs to include you giving a thumbs up! Congratulations to TexDoc56 for the first to find! Garden of the Gods is a public park located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. It was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1971. In 1879, Charles Elliott Perkins, a friend of William Jackson Palmer, purchased 480 acres of land that included a portion of the present Garden of the Gods. In 1907, Perkins died before he made arrangements for the land to become a public park, although it had been open to the public for years. In 1909, Perkins' children, knowing their father's feeling for the Garden of the Gods, conveyed the land to the City of Colorado Springs, with the provision that it would be known forever as the Garden of the Gods and remain free to the public. William Palmer had owned the Rock Ledge Ranch and upon his death, it was donated to the City. To log this virtual reward, you simply need to locate the dedication plaque (pictured below) at ground zero, and take a photo of yourself in front of it. Your face does not have to be in the photo. To ensure new photos, yours needs to include you giving a thumbs up! Enjoy beautiful Garden of the Gods! This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between August 24, 2017, and August 24, 2018. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards on "https://www.geocaching.com/blog/2017/08/virtual-rewards. I would like to thank Barasaur and Memphis Mafia for getting me moving on this and for all their help!
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07/03/2019 By OliversOuting Visiting from Delaware and enjoying the area. tftv!
07/03/2019 By camp_master Logging this from my trip back in February. Didn’t have a good signal while I was there and then life got in the way. Thanks for the cache. I love this area.
07/01/2019 By Team Shydog Thumbs up for this cache and location. Wow, just wow!!
Chris-Team Shydog Monticello, IN
07/01/2019 By bogus60 It was a great day to be out caching. TFTC
08/20/2018 By J&Leebee Kachow!! This is my first cache for Colorado! Here in the Springs area from Yorktown VA for meetings and some geocaching in my free time. I wanted to make my first find a unique cache and the location of this cache is definitely unique. Definitely a must cache for all local visitors - plus there are several geo-caches here in the park. TFTC and making geocaching in Colorado an awesome time!
Beautiful Garden of the Gods
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