You do not need to pay to enter the natural area. Park here: N 47° 26.877 W 120° 19.469 for quick and free access to the park.
Total hike length: 1.85 mile loop trail.
How long: 1 hour or so.
Trail info: Easy flat walk on maintained, lightly graveled trail. There is a pit toilet about halfway through the loop, as well as a bench nearby. There are garbage cans at periodic intervals. No water available.
Quick details: Make sure and print out the multi stage info on cache page. The coordinates for the stages are also listed as additional waypoints, so they can be easily downloaded into your GPS.
This cache is disabled between December 1 - March 1. Please do not try and search during this time, as part of the park is closed for Bald Eagle nesting.
You DO NOT have to go off of the trail, except at the last coordinate, which is the actual cache and not located in the State Park itself. The actual cache final is near the beginning of the multi, in Walla Walla Park. I specifically placed the physical cache outside of the State Park, due to the extra-sensitive nature of a park like that, and to encourage you to walk the entire loop.
This park is for pedestrians only, and you can bring your dog if it is leashed. Park hours are 8:00am - Dusk.
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All these coordinates, except for the starting coords and the final coords, are also in the additional waypoints feature so they can be downloaded into your gps.
Final Geocache coordinates are: N 4A° BC.DEF W 120° GH.IJK
N 47° 26.889 W 120° 19.362
(Posted coords at top of page) Look at the mural of day and night animals. How many NAMED animals are on the day side - 4 = A
N 47° 26.993 W 120° 19.405
How many kinds of ducks are discussed in this plaque = B
N 47° 27.118 W 120° 19.427
How many Wood ducks are on the plaque + 2 = C
N 47° 27.243 W 120° 19.547
Number at the bottom of the plaque - 2 = D
N 47° 27.264 W 120° 19.561
How many NAMED insect examples are on entire plaque + 1 = E
N 47° 27.285 W 120° 19.674
Count how many animals you see on the plaque = F
N 47° 27.329 W 120° 19.679
How many trees are in the drawing = G
N 47° 27.312 W 120° 19.851
How many animals on plaque + 4 = H
N 47° 27.286 W 120° 19.818
How many NAMES of animals are on the drawing (not inc. the den) = I
N 47° 27.274 W 120° 19.691
Number of animals on plaque + 2 = J
N 47° 27.195 W 120° 19.577
Number of animals on plaque + 4 = K
N 4A° BC.DEF W 120° GH.IJK
Final coordinates, just plop those numbers above, into the corresponding letters.
Cache is a small camo'd lock-n-lock container, which can fit a few cache items. Please be careful to hide cache well, but not so that it is obviously hidden to outsiders.
While doing this cache, check out the other cache that is on this loop trail as well:
Natures Habitat
Here is a link for more info on the Horan Natural Area: Trail of the week: Horan Natural Area
Some animals that I have seen while in the sanctuary (please add animals you have seen, in your logs): Ring-necked Pheasants, Great Blue Herons, American Bitterns, Turtles, Mallards, Deer, Northern Flickers, Sparrows, White-Crowned Sparrows, Wrens, Canada Geese, Belted Kingfisher, Eastern Kingbirds, Raccoons, Cedar Waxwings, Downy Woodpeckers, Crows, Black-capped Chickadees, Hawks - Red-tailed and Coopers(?), Quail.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.