GC8B6NY Traditional Cache CSP- Fairplay Beach
Type: Traditional | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: SouthParkNHA @ | Hide Date: 07/24/2019 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 13.279 W106° 00.263 | Last updated: 06/19/2022 | Fav points: 0
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While mankind has treasured the beautiful natural beauty of the South Park for over 10,000 years, it was the discovery of gold and silver that drew the rush of thousands of prospectors to the rivers and mountains near Fairplay. The Middle Fork of the South Platte River yielded gold, first by panning the river bottoms for nuggets and flakes, then by screening the sediment blasted through hydraulic hoses, and finally by scooping up the river gravel with large dredge boats that filtered out the gold and spit out the excess gravel as they moved along the waterway. The results of this placer mining are still visible today at the Fairplay Beach, where panning for gold is still allowed by purchasing a permit from the town of Fairplay at town hall.

Fairplay placer mine in the 1870s, courtesy of the Park County Local History Archives

Park on Platte River Drive. This is a popular spot in the summer so beware of muggles!

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In tree on a rock hill

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5 Logs: Found it 5  

Found it 10/14/2019 By FandS2017
Nice day out hiking, looked & looked for cache, but no luck, then read some of the other activities & went by another's coordinates & what do you know, we found it laying on the ground under the tree, great view of the river, becareful going up the rocks.

Found it 09/30/2019 By chsmathwisch
Visiting family in the area. Had some time this morning to grab a few caches nearby. Thanks to the earlier logs with better coords.

Found it 09/29/2019 By Denali41
I stayed for two nights in a really overpriced (relative to services and comfort) motel in Fairplay while on a caching trip to the area. Of course I needed to find the CSP geotour caches in the Fairplay vicinity, including this one. Thanks to the coordinate corrections given by the FTFer, this turned out to be an easy one. Thanks for the cache and the history!

Found it 09/15/2019 By J&J Team Yukon
Working on the GeoTour today. Read the FTF for the good coords.

Found it 09/01/2019 By TheSullys99
Coordinates were off, but found it on the tree over looking the rock hill. Thanks for the catch.