This Cache is placed as part of the 2024 Taconic Region Geocaching Challenge. The NYS Parks Saratoga-Capital Region and the Central Region will be hosting a similar challenge. Find 45 challenge caches in the Taconic Region and stamp your passport to earn a trackable geo-coin. Ten caches found in the Sara-Cap and/or Central Region Challenge can be used toward the Taconic Challenge. This cache contains a unique stamp which must stay with the cache. Use this stamp to mark your passport. This stamp is NOT a trade item.
Please visit the Taconic Region webpage to print your passport.
https://parks.ny.gov/documents/regions/2024TaconicRegionGeocacheChallenge.pdf
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For over 100 years, copper and silver beech trees lined the formal drive leading from Lyon Ridge Road up the John Jay Homestead. This was the retirement farm for one of our founding fathers, who, along with several other positions, became the First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The homestead stayed in the Jay family until the death of his great great granddaughter, Eleanor Jay Iselin. Her children arranged its sale to Westchester County for donation to the State of New York, to become an historical museum memorializing John Jay and his family. It opened to the public in 1965, using the grand driveway you drove up today. At that time, it was lined with lilac bushes.
The cache is a regular sized plastic container located along the restored Beech Allee, nestled snuggly and covered with bark. Please be sure to return it in an upright position after signing the log and stamping your passport.