GCQHN8 Blue Valley Overlook
Type: Traditional | Size: Regular | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: marks4runr @ | Hide Date: 09/10/2005 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 51.104 W106° 21.969 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0

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This is a favorite overlook of mine. As well as, there are numerous other views along the way. I only go here about 1 time a year. I truly love it and think it is well worth the trip.

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From Highway 9, take County Rd 10 to the west (this road is north of the Green Mountain Reservoir). Once you enter the boundary to the National Forest (at tree line on this road and a cattle gate) this road becomes Forest Road 23 (FR23). From FR23 take Forest Road 1832 (FR1832)(Note: mapquest will call this road 1830 and my colorado sector map calls this road FR1832). FR1832 is not marked by a sign, but is pretty what FR23 turns into as you go. On FR1832, just before it ends, you will finally get to coords:

N 39 50.808'
W 106 23.109'

Park here and you will see a little road going off to the east that is blocked off(blocked to motorized traffic, not to foot traffic). This little road was an old logging road and is the start of the hunt on foot! Follow this blocked off road to the end of this road at cords:

N 39 50.744'
W 106 21.914'

There are a couple of forks in the road, but follow the road most traveled and mind your GPS to the road end coords.

From the road end you have 2 options, head straight for the cache, but a chainsaw and machete is well advised. Or you can head southish' from this road end coords to the game trail at:

N 39 50.731'
W 106 21.917'

Follow this game trail to the east until you hit a fence (I always see wild turkeys on this trail). Stay on the west side of fence(east side is private property) and follow the game trail northish to the cache. It is easiest to follow the fence until it becomes obvious where the cache may be.

Cache contains:

Pens/Pencils
Disclaimer
Log Book
Camera
Hand Warmer
Batteries
Matches
2 Chinese Jaio Bill
1 Malaysian Negra Bill
20 Thai Baht Bill
50 Nira Nigerian Bill
2 Canadian Dollar Bill
50 Taiwan Yaun Bill
20 Hong Kong Dollar Bill
100 Chinese Yuan Bill
100,000 Turkish Yuz Bin Bill
50 Thai Baht Bill
other nick knacks

Enjoy!

07/01/2016 By ParmenterPack
The view was just like we remembered it. We were kinda surprised no one had logged a visit in 6 years.

07/30/2010 By ParmenterPack
Great view

07/30/2010 By 2749973
Great Hike with the family. Wonderful area!

07/14/2010 By sassydil
I had the drive in and the hike completely to myself today. Shadow Creek Ranch is sure a large spread. The wildflowers were very nice on the hillside today. It's always nice to find an ammo can!

06/20/2010 By RockyMtnDrummer
Found with Dr. Yes! Beautiful Day! Nice View!

06/20/2010 By Dr.Yes
Quite a hike. Beautiful views! Took a couple of pictures with the camera. Hiked in with Rocky Mtn. Drummer.

07/19/2008 By SEFullmer
[Quite a hike! Especially with two ten year olds, and a six year old. Hiked down the closed road for a couple of switchbacks then decided to blaze straight through.] Hit the fence and went West. Decided it must be on the high knob, and my son found it in the bush. [Great views!

Took two bullets and left two carabiner key rings.]

09/10/2007 By FireJuggle
I was in the Mahan Lakes area during black powder/archery season hunting elk and grouse up above this cache location. Decided to wander through a new area below forestry road 1830 in the direction of the cache in the afternoon. I still-hunted down an old logging road from 1830 in the general downhill direction for about two hours. There are a maze of overgrown roads to the west of where the cache sits, had to zigzag a bit in the general direction. The last .3 miles is bushwhacking on game trails through timber to where it opens up just above Shadow Creek Ranch. What a great spot. Left a muzzleloading bullet and took a bone. As soon as I left the cache and peeked over the next rise a bull elk wander across the clearing above me. Watched him for 30 seconds before he walked into the dark timber. Beautiful. SL TFTC

07/04/2007 By DCJC
[Found this after bushwacking when we decided going to the Fence line' to the south was going the wrong way. Bad decession. Lots of climbing over trees and limbs. Came back a different way too. Started on a trail that petered out and lead to more bushwacking.
Took the yellow jeep TB (JP3H8F). Left a Hard Rock Cafe button.
If you are interested in what may be an easier route read the encrypted data.]
First a disclaimer: Some of this is guess work as we did not use 100% of this route and none of my turn point marks recorded. Still getting used to the new GPS I guess. Follow the normal instructions to get to the parking and closed off road. As you walk down the road take the first left. It's only maybe a quarter mile down the first road. This will go more directly toward the cache. Either it is a direct connect or you will take a left that will go to North thirty nine:fifty one point zero sixteen and west one hundred six: twenty two point one three four. This will be near a big meadow. There is a trail going left here. Don't go there. That is what we took to go back but it died and forced us to bushwack more. Part way back JC spotted the above side road that took us back to the original road.

06/24/2007 By Team Trail Walker
We camped near the end of FR1831 and hiked to the cache following your directions. What a beautiful hike! Molly and I hung-out at the cache site for a bit, Molly hunting chipmunks and squirrels, while I checked out the wonderful view and logged my find. T- Reddish Chinese money? L- Signature Button and Yellow Jeep TB. We decided to bushwhack our way back to camp and found a game trail that took us the whole way dumping us out on the road just 100 yards from camp. :-) 3+ miles there and 1.4 miles back. What a great way to start the day! Thanks

YJTB and the Gore Range from the cache