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Mustang Island State Park Geocaches

Rules:  1) If you use the Geocache APP, please record your visit, 2) take one of each item per person, 3) close and latch the box – no item should be added to any educational geocache.

PARK ENTRY FEE REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE WITHIN THIS STATE PARK


Geocaches placed with the permission of Texas Parks & Wildlife Department by Texas Master Naturalists™

Please do not damage, destroy, or remove a Geocache™.

If a box is empty, please send an email to [email protected]


Photo source: Linda Wren, Pinterest (c)

Geocache 1 – Ghost Ponies of Mustang Island (Location: the deck of the bathhouse).

Hint: under the deck – the meadow is behind you.

Wild horses once roamed this beach and island.  They were the descendants of horses from the Spanish Explorers and Conquistadors from the 1500s.  By 1900, all the wild horses were removed from the island.  Today there are no wild horses on Mustang Island.

Take one pony to remember the horses that ran free in the meadow before you.  Hold it in your hand and imagine it on the landscape.


Geocaches placed with the permission of Texas Parks & Wildlife Department by Texas Master Naturalists™

More information about geocaching can be found at www.geocaching.com

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