Welcome to the Thacher State Park Travel Bug Hotel which is part of the Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park series. This cache is a pretty big container so lots of travel bugs, geocoins, and geokrets can be placed in it at one time. Please respect the wishes and goals of the owners of any of the travelers. The container is along one of the connector paths in Thacher State Park and it is near section 35 of the Long Path. The closest parking is the Paint Mine parking area (N42°39.107 W074°00.890). Congrats to Cully50 FTF
There are eleven caches in this series. This series also is an effort to promote the Long Path. A number of the caches in the series are either on the long path or near to it. In ten of these caches you will get a number for the final coordinate. As a hint so you get the numbers in order follow the cache list below. I would not recommend doing this cache when there is a lot of snow on the ground. Please put the container back in the same hiding spot you found it in.
Follow this link to New York/New Jersey Trail Conference for the list of the sections of the Long Path.
As this series seems to be getting great reviews I have created a webpage devoted to the series. I included the background of how I came up with the series, explaining the connection to the Long Path, and a little background about Geocaching in the Albany, NY area. Follow this link to the webpage: Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park Geocaching Series.
Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park #1 (GC4AZJ2)
Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park #2 (GC4AMNC)
Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park #3 (GC6AWXV)
Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park #4 (GC4C63C)
Thacher State Park Travel Bug Hotel (GC4C649)
Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park #5 (GC4AMNT)
Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park #6 (GC4AZM5)
Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park #7 (GC4AZPF)
Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park #8 (GC4AZPZ)
Mine Kill State Park Travel Bug Hotel (GC4AZQV)
The final cache that you have to figure out the coordinates for:
Thacher State Park to Mine Kill State Park BONUS (GC4AZRF)
The hours and charges for Thacher State Park: Most of the parking areas are open dawn to dusk, in the winter the Overlook, Hop Field, Paint Mine, and Indian Ladder parking areas are open with no charge, during the summer you will have to pay to park all parking areas except Hop Field and the Overlook Parking.