GLIN==> Press release: New Great Lakes Seaway Trail GeoCoins celebrate water and history

PRESS RELEASE:  August 24, 2010
Contact: Seaway Trail, Inc. President & CEO Teresa Mitchell, 315-646-1000;
Seaway Trail, Inc. Project Manager Kurt Schumacher, cell: 585-671-5263
Jpg of coins available form karalynn at gisco.net, specify hi/lo res please
 
New Great Lakes Seaway Trail GeoCoins Celebrate NY-PA Waters and History

Great Lakes Seaway Trail, NY and PA ­ The new Great Lakes Seaway Trail
GeoTrail Coins are here! The elegant, antique metal-finish tokens celebrate
the waters and history of the 518-mile-long America¹s Byway that is host to
a new 75-cache adventure for those who enjoy exploring by latitude and
longitude. The series of five coins features the Flagship Niagara, Niagara
Falls and the Maid of the Mist tour boat, Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse,
historic Fort Ontario, and a ship on the St. Lawrence River.
 
Avid geocachers who have already located at least 10 caches in any of the
byway¹s five regions (Lake Erie, Buffalo/Niagara Falls, Rochester/Central
Lake Ontario, Eastern Lake Ontario, and 1000 Islands/St. Lawrence River) can
have their logbooks validated to receive the coin for that region.
 
All five Great Lakes Seaway Trail GeoCoins are available at the Great Lakes
Seaway Trail Discovery Center in Sackets Harbor, NY. Great Lakes Seaway
Trail GeoTrail logbook pickup and validation sites are:
 
Lake Erie Region ‹ Flagship Niagara GeoCoin
€  Tom Ridge Environmental Center, 301 Peninsula Drive, Suite 1, Erie, PA
16505
 
Buffalo/Niagara Falls Region ‹ Niagara Falls and the Maid of the Mist
GeoCoin
€  Niagara USA Official Visitor Center, 10 Rainbow Blvd., Niagara Falls, NY
14303
 
Rochester/Central Lake Ontario Region ‹ Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse GeoCoin
€  VisitRochester, 45 East Avenue, Suite 400, Rochester, NY 14604
€  Wayne County Tourism Office, 9 Pearl Street, Suite 3, Lyons, NY 14489
 
Eastern Lake Ontario Region ‹ Historic Fort Ontario GeoCoin
€  Cayuga County Office of Tourism, 131 Genesee Street, Auburn, NY 13021
€  Oswego County Tourism, 3rd Floor, County Office Building, 46 E. Bridge
St., 
   Oswego, NY 13126
€  Screwy Louie¹s Sport Shop, 596 Main St., Fair Haven, NY 13064

Thousand Islands/St. Lawrence River Region ‹  St. Lawrence River Ship
GeoCoin
€  Seaway Trail Discovery Center, Ray & West Main Streets, Sackets Harbor,
NY  
   13685
€  St. Lawrence County Chamber, 101 Main St., Canton, NY 13617
€  1000 Islands International Tourism Council, 3373 Collins Landing,
   Alexandria Bay, NY 13607.
 
The Great Lakes Seaway Trail GeoTrail sponsors include VisitErie, the
Niagara Tourism and Convention Corporation, VisitRochester, Wayne County
Tourism, the Fair Haven Area Chamber of Commerce, the Cayuga County Office
of Tourism, Oswego County Tourism, the 1000 Islands International Tourism
Council, the St. Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce, and the Great Lakes
Seaway Trail.
 
Great Lakes Seaway Trail President and CEO Teresa Mitchell says, ³This new
GeoTrail and our new collector coins are generating a geocaching rush on New
York and Pennsylvania¹s freshwater America¹s Byway. This Œget outdoors on
the Great Lakes Seaway Trail¹ initiative is ideal for making healthy living
more available, accessible and affordable.²
 
Learn more at http://www.seawaytrail.com/geotrail. #
 
Early reaction to the new Great Lakes Seaway Trail GeoTrail as seen in web
chatter:
·     I don't know how many people we would need in order to get a group
discount at a hotel, but wouldn't it be cool if we could get a block of
rooms at a hotel in the Thousand Islands, and spend a weekend doing all of
the SLR caches? Or maybe we head West and do a weekend in Erie?
 
·     Depending on when you go, I'd like to join in the overnight road trip
too. Sounds like fun.
 
·     A friend picked up a couple logbooks today and they are impressive
looking. Much more professional looking than other geotrails books I¹ve
seen/used. Bravo!
 
·     When I picked up my logbook today, I told the woman working at Visit
Rochester to expect to see at least one cacher come back with at least 10
punches before the week was over, thanks to the number of cachers we have
around here.
 
·     We¹ve had ~600 finds in 4 days so far!
 
·     See more comments online at www.twitter.com/SeawayTrail and
www.georoc.org
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