Benchmarks on Natchez Trace Parkway

[ruffytiger]

On a trip to a campground on the Natchez Trace (maintained by the National Park Service), we found several benchmarkers that read, USDI 3SPOT1 1958 NPS. I want to log these on my geocaching.com account, but I can't find how to do that. I took photos of all of them, for later logging. Can somebody help me with this? Thanks. ruffytiger

[oakenwood]

You can find them on the map here and click on the links to their geocaching pages.

[+GeoGeeBee]

You might get a better answer if you ask on the Benchmark forum.

 

Depending on which agency placed the benchmark, you may not be able to log it on GC.com. There are a LOT of benchmarks that are not in the NGS database.

[Keystone]

I am moving this thread from the Geocaching Topics forum to the Benchmarking forum.

[TillaMurphs]

ruffytiger,

 

By your description I don't think these are listed in the geocaching.com database. However, if you can post a photo, or tell us the coordinates or nearest city, then we can let you know for sure.

 

- - The TillaMurphs

[AZcachemeister]

Isn't someone supposed to suggest Waymarking them about now?

[+Black Dog Trackers]

Ya, OK, I'll bite

 

ruffytiger - You can log them at Groundspeak's Waymarking site for U.S. benchmarks.

[+Klemmer]

ruffytiger:

 

In case you didn't realize:

USDI = US Department of the Interior

NPS = National Parks Service

 

It's pretty doubtful those marks will be in the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) database, which is where the geocaching database came from. You can search by designation here:

http://www.geocaching.com/mark/nearest.aspx

but your example above doesn't come up.

 

Looks like Waymarking is the way to go on these.

 

Klemmer

Edited January 21, 2010 by Klemmer & TeddyBearMama