Found at Philpot Campground in Hayfork, Ca. The campgrounds are closed seasonally, but you can park at the gate and walk in.
This used to be a bustling campground drawing people from all over. It boasted running water and outhouses, campsites with picnic tables and oven/grills. Now the only water is in the creeks, but the outhouses still stand! There are also still picnic tables and cooking pits.
The campground is also the trailhead of the “Philpot Self-Guided Tour”. After the devastaing fires in 1987, the Watershed Program received grant money to construct an eduactional “self-guided tour” through the burn, following the north fork of Philpot creek, ending at the little-known Philpot waterfall. You can get copies of the “Philpot Self-Guided Tour” from the USFS Hayfork Ranger Station. Many of the points of interest markers are missing, but you can still follow pretty closely and see how the forest has recovered and regrown after 20+ yrs.
The cache is a pretty blue plastic beverage bottle.
This is my first hide! I used the "average waypoint" function on my GPS, so I hope the coordinates are close enough!