Garey Lake is the westernmost campground on the Shore to Shore trail. It is on the road from one ghost town to another, from Jacktown to Oviatt. Both were bustling lumber towns in their day. Now, all traces of the towns are gone and in the case of Jacktown, the only residents are in the cemetery.
The Michigan Shore-To-Shore Trail begins at Lake Michigan in Empire and ends more than 200 miles east at Lake Huron near Oscoda.The trail was created and is maintained by the Michigan Trail Riders Association in cooperation with the DNR. Closed to motorized traffic, it passes through meadows and forests where possible and uses roadside shoulders where necessary.
Find and copy the number codes contained in all of the containers in this 14 cache series. They will allow you to find and unlock the Hopkins Creek cache and complete the Geochallenge.
Commemorative high quality S2S T shirts have been created and will be presented to ten members of the first teams to complete the challenge. To be eligible, the members receiving shirts must all have participated in the quest and must all be present and listed when logging finds. After the complimentary T shirts have been awarded, shirts will be available for purchase by additional challenge finishers for their cost plus shipping.
The first stage is a micro container in a campground on the shore of tiny Garey lake. Within it are the coordinates to a large container hidden along the path to the trail camp less than a quarter of a mile to the west. In addition within each container is a number/letter code. As with all geocaches, please leave the containers at least as well hidden as they were when you found them.
The fourteen caches in the S2S Geo-challenge are;
Empire, Garey Lake, Lake Dubonnet, Sheck's Place,Rapid River, Goose Creek,4 Mile,Luzerne,McKinley,Gabions,South Branch,River Road,Oscoda,
And the final at Hopkins Creek
