Ames Nowell Geocaches
For those familiar with Ames Nowell State Park, located in Southeastern Massachusetts, there are several Geocaches to be found in the park including a couple of multi–caches.
Among these caches you can find a sticker share cache, a pen swap cache, and even a very large cache. None of the caches are micros and there are plenty of trails to help you refrain from much bushwhacking, which makes Ames Nowell State Park one of the ideal locations for beginning Geocachers to get their feet wet, so to speak.
The only downside to Geocaching at Ames Nowell is that it is located near a highly populated area and it’s not uncommon for a cache to be muggled (damaged, stolen, or otherwise raided). In fact, the first cache my wife and I found at Ames Nowell was muggled less than 2 weeks after we found it. That cache has not been replaced. So, be very careful not to let anyone see where the cache is hidden.
You will need to watch out for yellow jacket hives/nests. Last night my wife and I were attempting to finish finding all of the caches in the park, when I stumbled upon a very active nest of yellow jackets located under a rock within a few
of Mountain Biker Cache
. Luckily, my wife was about 20 feet away and I was able to get away from the area quickly without being attacked, but we decided to not press our luck again. We’ll go back for that cache in the winter.
You will also need to watch out for Poison Ivy in a few places, but we’ve only seen a few areas and not directly near any caches.
The park officially closes at sunset, but we’ve been out there well beyond sunset with no problems. There’s free parking at the end of Linwood Street and with several miles of trails the park is great for mountain biking and hiking.
Geocaching at Ames Nowell is one of the best locations with a good variety of caches. I highly recommend this area to any Geocacher, but especially beginners.
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There are 12 caches as of 6/13/11 and 2 benchmarks to hunt. I just held the “WWFM IIIV” event there on the 6/4, 52 people attened it. All had a great time. More caches are for the park are planed. Joe