The Sunset Highway was a crucial passage running from the Puget Sound region east over the Cascades. This road was the first road to cross the Cascades. Over the many decades, many changes to the road occured which included several path changes for the road. Tinkham Road, which was named after Lt. Tinkham who crossed the pass in 1853, was one of the earlier paths that the Sunset Highway took as it meandered east towards Snoqualmie Pass. In 1883, Tinkham Road became a toll road which helped in maintaining the old road. In 1893 the county took over the road and it became County Road 353. In 1907, the highway was going through major improvements which included widening the road. Finally, in 1915, the Sunset Highway was completed. The completion of the highway included some big changes by then which included abandoning Tinkham Road as part of the Sunset Highway for an easier route that eliminated a number of river crossing which is the current path that Interstate 90 takes today.
The cache is off the north side of Tinkham Rd. Theres easy acces to the cache from the road. Look for the tree with the big red letters painted on it. Go in to the right of that tree. See the spoiler picture if you need help finding the access point to the cache.
In September 2002, a group of 19 concerned geocachers scheduled a meeting after hearing that the Washington State Parks was considering banning geocaches in the state park system. Out of this meeting, the Washington State Geocaching Association (WSGA) was "born" with its core values of promoting geocaching as a fun, family-oriented outdoor activity that increases awareness and appreciation of the environment and our parks and trails, provide opportunities for participants to enjoy geocaching and to socialize with other geocaches, educate park systems and land managers about geocaching and its benefits, increase awareness and support of the geocaching through interaction with other outdoor groups and the public, encourage low-impact geocaching and promote stewardship of our natural resources, and support "Cache In Trash Out" activities to help maintain parks and trail systems.
In 2022, the WSGA turns 20 years young. To celebrate this milestone, the WSGA is hosting a 20th-anniversary GeoTour. This GeoTour will give you the opportunity to travel to all corners of the Evergreen State while you search for 140 GeoTour caches. To make it easier to tackle such a large GeoTour, each of our 7 regional chapters will host 20 chapter-specific geocaches in bite-sized GeoTours with the entire GeoTour consisting of 140 caches. To learn more about our GeoTour, please visit the GeoTour page on our website which you can find HERE. We hope that you enjoy getting back out on the road while touring around Washington State. If you have any questions about our GeoTour, you can reach out to us via the contact tab on our website.
GEOTOUR UPDATE
The WSGA's 20th Anniversary GeoTour will end on December
31, 2024, at
11:59pm PT.
You will only have until this date and time to find the
geocaches, post all of your logs for the digital souvenirs (if qualified), and
submit all of your passports of unique codes for the geocoins (if qualified).
There will be no exceptions.