GCZT3B Colorado's Last Rest Stop
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: palser @ | Hide Date: 12/12/2006 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 57.674 W103° 41.244 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 1

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Good access. Short walk to cache.

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Colorado's Last Rest Area

This cache is located just inside the Pawnee National Grassland, south of Kimball, Ne. (approx. 20 miles).

Colorado placed this little wide spot on the road, (asphalt pull out to cache) about 30 yrs. ago. It has boasted a small shelter, a picnic table, porta-potty and other amenities through these past years. Currently it only has a large garbage can which remains mostly full. As it might have been a good idea for a rest stop in a mostly desolate section of road, it never really has any use except for an occasional trucker in need of rest. No monuments, historical markers, scenic overlook, or anything else that would entice people to stop. So as it might have been a good idea, it was probably doomed to it's present status from the very beginning.

So enjoy your visit to the last rest area as you leave the state going north, or enjoy a warm welcome to the first one you encounter coming into the state. Not much to write home about. Enjoy your stay.

As usual hide as good or better.

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10/06/2018 By Lucka Black
I am traveling with my daughter Lucinka mudlinka across the USA.  We are from Prague, Czech Republic. We will visit the states of Michigan, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Nebraska and Georgia.  We love "geocaching", the main target is caches :))

Day 1 - Detroit – Denver – Laramie
Day 2 Laramie – Hells Half Acre - Boysen State Park – Dubois
Day 3 - Dubois - Yellostone NP (Old Faithful, Morning Glory Pool, Grand Prismatic Spring) - West Thumb – Saint Anthony
Day 4 - Saint Anthony – West Thumb – Yellostone NP (Grizzly Lake, Sheepeater Cliff, Mammoth Hot Springs, Boiling River) – Bozeman
Day 5 – Bozeman - Yellostone NP (Tower Fall, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Mud Volcano) – Cody
Day 6 – Cody - Yellostone NP  (Fishing Bridge, Lake of Yellowstone, to visit everything we did not get) - Jackson - National Elk Refuge
Day 7 – Jackson - Grand Teton National Park – Cody
Day 8 – Cody - Bighorn National Forest (Cloud Peak Skyway, Tensleep Canyon, Meadowlark Lake), Devils Tower – Gillette
Day 9 – Gillette - Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial, Sylvan Lake, Needles Eye Tunnel, Wind Cave – Chadron
Day 10 – Chadron (EVENT - THE GREETINGS FROM PRAGUE) - Chimney rock, Scotts Bluff National Monument, Pawnee National Grassland – Aurora (Denver)
Day 11 – Atlanta

Many beautiful caches, amazing and unforgettable experiences, thank all owners, TFTC :))

08/29/2018 By austindwiekhorst
Tftc

08/29/2018 By Da6om6
TFTC

08/29/2018 By kobyjohnson123
Tftc

08/21/2018 By korriaan
On a trip from St. Louis to Seattle and seeing the sights in between. I think this is such a pretty area - the rolling hills and buttes fascinate me and keep my imagination working, seeing the wagon trains passing through. Thanks for the fun!

08/19/2018 By geordons
A really fun cache.
TFTC

07/26/2018 By starsharon + Hubbie
Hubbie and I out celebrating our 51th anniversary, finding caches on our way!

07/14/2018 By ColoradoA_Team
On our way to Nebraska to hit our 500th cache!! Thanks for the quick cache!

06/14/2018 By davisbaycacher
Neat wind turbines. TFTC. From B C Canada.

06/13/2018 By B-Sharps
Tftc

06/03/2018 By Boreal Walker
I ended up on an epic adventure with yellowdogs and jREST. I really wanted to go and find GC19. So, I picked a five day stretch to make my attempt. I roped in a couple of caching friends into the misadventure and we were off with my two geodogs. The five of us made an interesting group. We drove over 3000 miles on the trip going out and back. Since we enjoy the same types of caches it was easy to come up with a list. We target the three main kinds of caches: oldies, virtuals, and earthcaches. We threw in a few others mainly to grab a cache in the 72 counties we headed through. Really got to light up that county map. Ended up with 152 caches in the found pile.

The first night was a little rough. We got a late start and headed into some heavy rain. We already had a hotel reserved in Sioux City, IA; so we knew we had to get there. Found one cache to fill the day in for me. The first day was spent caching our way across northern Nebraska. We had a line of counties that we wanted to grab. Some pretty country once you get further west. It is always nice to see the varied topography of the states we visit. After finding 35 caches, we called it a night in Scotts Bluff.
Day 2 dawned sunny, but cool. We wanted to get past Denver, but our route was longer than anticipated. So we ended up a little short. Got to see some interesting spots though. We hit the high point in Nebraska, cached along a lonely stretch of highway in Colorado, picked up some virtuals in the Denver area, before heading into the mountains for the Cache Across America. We continued exploring the mountains before finding a place to sleep for the night west of Denver.

On the third day, we made it into Denver after some virtuals and then headed south through the mountains to GC 19. We made it. The road was open and the weather perfect. Lots of warnings about the fire danger. We picked up a few other caches and even took a detour into New Mexico so yellowdogs could light up the state. Nice. I love it when a plan comes together.

Day 4 found us in Trinidad. We had a long way to go and a short time to get there. Luckily, at this point the route was pretty straight forward. We headed north roughly to Nebraska. We did take a detour to grab GC31. I already had it, but we were too close not to add it to the list. We ended up caching longer than anticipated due to a lack of sleeping options. Finally found a place in Thedford.

Our last day was short and to the point. We had a line of counties between us and the Iowa border and we wanted to find a cache in each of them. We found one or two caches in each of them before hitting the border at noon. Right on schedule After that, it was just a matter of beating feet home.

Thanks to all the COs that placed or created a cache for us to find on this trip. Without you, we would not have found have the interesting places we ended up. I couldn't think of a better way to spend vacation. We used our Team Barcelona stamp to mark all the physical logs.

Not the kind of rest area we were expecting, but we made it work. We found the cache and took care of business. Only a few other travelers on this stretch of highway today.

XNSL TFTC

06/03/2018 By jREST
Took a bit of a long weekend, well five days anyway and hopped in a car with Boreal Walker and yellowdogs (AKA - Team Barcelona) and headed west aiming for parts unknown. This cache was one of those on the adventure. Cool old hide in an old rest stop. Not much here but we did get a chance to stretch the legs a bit. TNLNSL

06/03/2018 By yellowdogs
I am on a road trip with Boreal Walker and jREST from Minnesota to New Mexico and back meandering our way through as many counties as we could with many target caches in our sights. The weather was decent, although we did have a day that the temperatures reached 100 degrees and we were very thankful for the air conditioning the car provided. We enjoyed our journey and the many laughs along the way along with the great places some of these caches brought us to.
Stamped the log Team Barcelona. Thanks for the cache!

Sun Shining. Go Caching. Be Smiling!

06/03/2018 By Will_Dieterich
State number four of the day. Coming from South Dakota by way of Scotts Bluff. Not to make it to the airport and avoiding the toll roads.