- Coordinates:
- N 41.390266° W 76.278016°
- Location:
- Elevation:
- Unknown
- Type:
- Elevation Mark
- Setting:
- Bridge Wingwall
- Year Established:
- Unknown
- Established By:
- PA Dept. of Highways
- Status:
- Recovered
- Condition:
- Good as of May 10, 2003
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Official PA Dept. of Highways Description:
Unavailable.
We were in the area of Ricketts Glen State Park for the Red Rock and Rolls event cache (geocachers' picnic), and had planned to arrive early in order to find a cache or two before meeting everybody else at the pavilion. Not far from the starting point for Mike(Bonanza)Burnside's intriguing Downtown Ricketts cache, I spotted the concrete bridge and thought "That would be a good spot for a benchmark." What do you know, there was one right there just a few feet from where I stood, beneath plenty of dirt and gravel, but obvious enough. I knew that LZ0099 was somewhere nearby, but as soon as I uncovered this mark I realized this wasn't it. Still, it was a cool bonus find! It's located on top of the southeast wingwall of a bridge on Route 487 over Mehoopany Creek, below the level of the road. The disk has no stamping, and I can't find a reference to it in any database. It's a Pennsylvania Department of Highways disk like many others that do appear in the NGS database.