All Aboard Knox County's C.A.&C. Geotrail

We visited Knox County in 2019 to find the park caches in their first geotrail. This year, we were back in the county visiting a super bike trail located on the path of the old C.A.& C (Cleveland, Akron, and Columbus) Railroad. We started our journey in Centerburg and employed a minion to hail our train.

There were enough interesting sights to keep our nature nerd side happy.

Buckeyes are less common in northeast Ohio.  The streamside trees were bearing fruit.

The Mount Vernon depot is a nicely preserved example of an old small town station.  It appeared to be closed from COVID.  If not, I would have stepped inside to see the remaining railway artifacts.

We made a detour from the Knox Trail to visit the Brown Family Environmental Center for a walk in the wildflower fields and the pine plantation.

I enjoyed this old twin trestle on the journey.

2020 is the 80th anniversary of this Alco's build.

Ali says come down, we'll finish the trail tomorrow.

With only a pair of caches left in the series we started our day in Westerville completing the Adventure Lab.  We made the cache near the Bridge of Dreams covered bridge our last in the series.  We enjoyed the bridge, but this stop concerned me most of the journey.  The bridge area was crowded with little mask usage.  We wore ours, but still felt at risk.

As a reward for completing the trail we were sent a coin.  It is a really attractive design and a nice memento of a fun journey.  This is the second Knox County geotrail we have completed.  Both were well done and very enjoyable.

Like last year's coin, this one is not trackable.  We have used a new trackable code to make the coin trackable.  It can be found here if you wish to discover.