GC4QHNY Traditional Cache Hickory Flats
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: Gemini Syndicate @ | Hide Date: 10/19/2013 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 16.511 W106° 57.713 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Dogs  Available during winter  Needs maintenance  Field Puzzle  Fuel Nearby  Food Nearby  Tourist Friendly 

This is a micro with a small puzzle included at no extra price. It's not difficult and should be almost a grab and go. The thing you'll need to watch out for is occasional muggles driving this road.

Hickory Flats

            Oak Creek has a colorful history. It was much larger than nearby Steamboat Springs and home to the coal miners - men who made a meager living in the nearby coal mines. One of the most notorious areas in Oak Creek at the turn of the century was Hickory Flats. It had gambling, bootlegging, and women of dubious virtue.

            The Town Marshal left this area to its own. There have been numerous tales of bodies placed on or beside the railroad track or dumped in the ditch between the track and the road. Old Timers swear that bodies were buried in the ditch and never found. You are standing in what was Hickory Flats. If you look carefully around this area you’ll see the remains of very old, tiny, tumble-down shacks. These were called “cribs” and they were typically one room buildings rented out to women of the evening to conduct their business in.

            Oak Creek was a rough and dangerous town back then. It wasn’t a place for the meek and genteel – but then towns like this are the ones that made the West interesting.

This cache owes special thanks to Mike Yurich of Oak Creek for historical information. Thanks Mike!
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10 Logs: Found it 10  

Found it 06/27/2019 By Fork L Man
nice job on this one. TFTC/bruce

Found it 06/08/2019 By Coloboy1
TFTC nice hide

Found it 05/12/2019 By RoyWaive
This is a favorite! Very inventive! Thanks!

Found it 12/04/2018 By GeoTed1
Probably should have found this quicker... but it was a fun hide to discover and recover! Only muggle to interrupt my search was a local police officer driving by... he stopped to ask what I was doing... but he ended up being a geocacher too.

Found it 10/28/2018 By Coloboy
TFTC

Found it 09/11/2018 By mom & pop
We came up to this area for a week caching & haveing a great time SL Thanks

Found it 09/02/2018 By begs
Nice. Fun. Happy

Found it 08/08/2018 By MAGICN3
Fun cache. Found quickly. Definitely worth a fav for creativity. TFTC.

Found it 07/03/2018 By kwinseck
Thankfully we were just out of view of the muggle. Very fun hide, +1 fave!

Found it 07/03/2018 By bushmathster
Very clever hide. Fav Pt. TFTC