Western States Geocaching

No time for caching today but I did some looking at a few other places to see what the caching was like in area's of the western US that I'm familiar with. Some of them were very interesting - at least to my family.

Cedar City, UT – This was interesting. There are 3 geocaches in the block around a house I'm familiar with! If I remember correctly, one of them is the church I've been to before!! Just around the corner from the house I know. It's an awesome building with some great stone work on it. You can see the church cache here. From there you can get to the cache page where you can read what people have said about it.


Wendover, NV/UT – there’s about 20 or so in Wendover. Some at the “movie” sites. Lots of interesting history in Wendover, too. Many of the caches will take you to those historical sites.


Alpine, UT – None quite as close as the one's in Cedar City, UT, but there are about 6 or so within a house I'm familiar with in Alpine. Plus, there's a few more in the canyon to the north east. The greater Salt Lake City, UT area is loaded with many caches.


Mt Shasta, CA – There’s about 11 in Mt Shasta proper. If I remember right there are a couple within 1/2 mile from a house I know. This is a beautiful area of the country. Mt Shasta (the mountain) towers up in the east. Great place to visit if you've never been there before!



Mesa, AZ – Some of my family have found a few caches with me around this place. Well, there’s a new one just placed recently in a little park next to some horses just down the street from a house I know very well. So I decided to take a look at the cache page. Look at the entry from a geocacher named wannabepaddlin on March 7, 2007 of this year. I know that guy!! I served with him in our church! He lives in my area in Minnesota and found this cache in Arizona - near a place I go to frequently. I had no idea he’d been to this cache. Pretty cool!! By looking at the map, Red Mountain Park is calling my name next time I'm in the area.


Lander, WY – There are seven caches in Lander proper. One of them is mine that my father-in-law and I hid near what used to be called "the field house." It's now had a huge addition and is the high school (Tiger Power). There’s one in North Park behind the old baseball filed. A second one by the high school (placed just this week). One across the street from the theater (the only one it town) in a small park they made there. One up by the antelope statue. And one out Tweed Lane. Of course there are quite a few around the area, too. For example the "The Sinks" is a virtual cache. There are many of them up the switch backs and around the Louis Lake road (those have still be some of my favorites there – we’ve done some each time we go out to see the family).


Here's some of the others one's in the Lander area that I've really liked!
The Bus - as of this posting, I was the last finder in Aug 07.
Atop A Cliff - This is a great story. You'll have to read the log entry for the details. Only been two finders of this cache since it was published on 8/12/06.
In Plane Site - Fun hike to this one. I had my two oldest son's with me as well as Grandpa and UncleM.