To complete this challenge, you'll have to find at least one cache in each of the County and State parks listed below (county or state lands, parks, historic sites, memorials and cemeteries not on the list below are not included in the challenge – we didn’t want to make this a lifelong pursuit!). The list below should be enough to take most cachers to some interesting places they've never seen before, or may not know about.
To qualify to complete the challenge, your finds must be bona fide caches, found and logged by you. The date you found each cache or the current status of the cache doesn’t matter - i.e. a cache you found that's currently archived will count, as long as you legitimately found it when it was active. ‘Extra credit’ for finding any of our caches placed in some of these parks!
After you've found at least one cache in each park listed below, go to the coordinates above, find the cache and log your find. When you log your find online, please tell us your favorite park(s) on the list, and what you like about the park(s). You do not have to include a list of the caches you found - we have a way to easily check if you've meet the challenge. Please do not log this cache until you've met the requirements of the challenge - logs that do not meet the requirements will be deleted and you won't get credit for the find - we don't want to have to do that.
Here’s the list of parks where you must find at least one cache to complete the challenge and log the final cache, with the number of caches in each park as of September 2018 (you only have to find one in each park - this is just the number available to find):
County Parks in the Challenge:
Beaver Lake - 5
Carpenter's Brook - 2
Highland Forest - 17
Hopkins Road - 5
Hopper's Glen Memorial - 1
Indian Hill Memorial - 1
Jamesville Beach - 5
Oneida Shores - 4
Onondaga Lake Park - 30
Otisco Lake Park - 1
Pratt's Falls - 9
Rosamond Gifford Zoo - 1
Ste Marie - 1
State Parks in the Challenge:
Clark Reservation - 13
Green Lakes - 18
State Fair Park - 1
Click the link for a reference point below, then click "Geocaching.com Google Map" to see the caches in that park, including those you've found.
Congratulations to EarthSciSD for the FTF, one of the aforementioned avid cacheers whom we knew was "pre-qualified" for the find. EarthSciSD also gets 'extra credit' for finding some of our caches (almost all of them, in fact!).