Betty & Wilbur Davis State Park (town of Westford, New York)

Betty & Wilbur Davis State Park (town of Westford, New York), a photo by JuneNY on Flickr.

Leslie and I decided to do some geocaching today. Our first stop was Wilber Park in Milford, New York where we are working on a five part multi cache. However, when we arrived, there were signs saying the park was reserved until one p.m. for a local childrens recreation program.

We decided to go to BETTY AND WILBUR DAVIS STATE PARK to find a newly hidden geocache (The Magic Treehouse). This was my first time in this park, atthough I have driven by it at least once).

Our first stop was at the Park Office, where a ranger gave us a trail map and told us a bit about the park. He knew about the geocache.
We chatted with him a few minutes (and used the clean restroom) and then located the parking area for ANDY'S TRAIL. It was a pretty short walk, with some kind of steep areas, to the area where we found the site of THE MAGIC TREEHOUSE.

Indeed there IS a treehouse (actually it is for hunters to use in hunting season). We saw this right near the treehouse, and momentarily thought it might be the geocache. I took this picture of a small creek from the trail.


We looked all around and Leslie climbed up to ladder to see if the geocache was hidden IN
the treehouse itself, but we had no luck, and left empty handed.

We drove a different route back to Milford, and I stopped to take a picture of this old cemetery in an empty church's side yard. It is the WESTFIELD BAPTIST CHURCHYARD CEMETERY.


We stopped at the Milford Corner Store
and bought subs and took them to Wilber Park where we had a picnic lunch before setting out to look for The 5D Multi-Cache. We had previously found part one and two, and Leslie found part three the other day. I quickly found part 3 (including a bunch of earwigs who seemed to be nesting in the spot). Leslie found Part 4, and then we set out to find Part 5.

We spent quite a bit of time without any luck. We didn't have the hint with us, which was unfortunate. Now that I have read it, I think I know where we SHOULD have looked. Maybe next time...............

It was a great day!