GC38V2J Beautiful, and Restful, Colorado
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: James Bridger @ | Hide Date: 12/05/2011 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 58.829 W105° 23.533 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
                 

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This cache is hidden at the edge of a rest area on Highway 287. You can park very near the cache with a short walk over uneven and rocky ground. The rest area is open seasonally, but there is room to park at a turnout and be off the highway. Please ensure the lid is snapped close when you replace this one.

Respect the area, CITO if needed, practice stealth if warranted, and rehide the cache EXACTLY as you find it so the next person can have the same challenge. Thank you and good luck.

Congratulations "egroeg38" : First to Find - December 06, 2011

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06/01/2019 By Karate Hiker
Well this certainly turned out to be an adventure. We were on our way back from Laramie to Fort Collins. We wanted to find the geocache hidden here at the rest stop. We had read the previous cachers logs about finding the letterbox but not the geocache.

After a few minutes my daughters boyfriend found a container that turned out to be the letterbox. When I took out the log my first reaction was sadness. I had been a letterboxer many years ago here in Colorado and had met Prebox several times. I was sad because she had passed away from cancer.

As I opened the log book I found that the first to finders was myself and two kids I was out with on a letterboxing trip. I had totally forgotten about this find so many years ago (12 years ago). As I flipped through the log I found another log of mine and my new husband 7 years later.

We replaced the container and continued our search. After a bit the boyfriend says "Found It". It was a plastic baggie that was tightly wedged under some rocks. However, once it was extracted, we found it was someone's marijuana stash!

So, we found to caches but neither were of the variety we were looking for but thank you so much for the unique DNF

04/15/2019 By army310
Looked and found a letter box but no geocache. Maybe next time.

04/15/2019 By coloradocountrygirl
Found letterbox but no cache

03/31/2019 By BNMarshall
Quick find. Left swag. Thank you!

09/23/2018 By UsLaynes
Made a quick trip to Denver for a car part and of course I included geocaching at all my stops along the way. My route took me through Wyoming on the way there with a few side roads for special caches and then return via I-70 through southern Utah. I only wish the days would have been longer so I could have found more finds.

Last find for the night. It was getting late and I still needed to find a place to sleep and the darkness was thick. This rest stop is still closed, so parked on the road and walked in to the cache. Very little traffic at this time of night on the road, and I think only 2 cars passed by while I was at G Z. Cool cache, and some fun swag.

SL TFTC

Turning Green Boxes Into Smileys One Find At A Time!

08/22/2018 By Huff-Suter
Thanks RockNRip for placing this cache for us to find. Quick find!!!

08/20/2018 By FresnoDancingFool
I quickly found the letterbox just about where my GPSr indicated the container should be and happily retrieved it, only to see the disappointing message on the outside. Several more minutes of searching yielded nothing; perhaps the caching container is missing. TFTC anyway.

08/17/2018 By Von-Horst
A quick find as we headed north.

It was fascinating how different the landscape is from Denver where we started the day.

TFTC

08/01/2018 By Poo-Lvrs & Poo
Traveling to Denver to move the New pastor to Wyoming. Thanks for the cache

07/30/2018 By Megs_83
Found it ;)