A Tour of Kalamazoo City Parks Multi-cache
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A Tour of Kalamazoo City Parks
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Kalamazoo has many city-owned parks. Some of them are basic playgrounds, some commemorate historic events, some are monuments to persons or groups, others are outstanding recreational areas. The coordinates at the top of the page do not refer to any park, they simply refer to the center of downtown Kalamazoo.
In this tour of several of the city parks you are asked to locate specific items of information in the parks. The coordinates below represent the location of the park, NOT the location of the information. At some parks you can get the clue from the comfort of your car; at other parks you’ll have to do some walking, searching, and reading. In all cases translate the letters in the words to their corresponding numeric values using A=1, B=2, C=3, …, Z=26. In the cases where the information is already a number, first write out the number in words (example: 27 = twenty seven) and then translate the words to the numeric values. The parks may be visited in any order. Please note that as of August 14, 2011 some of the clues and some of the math directions have been changed due to changes in the park specifics. This is NOT a quick adventure, it may well take you several hours (or days) to visit all the parks. The parks and clues are as follows:
1. N42o16.217 W085o34.102 How many basketball backboards are in this park?
2. N42o17.392 W085o35.173 On the spot where Abraham Lincoln spoke in this Kalamazoo park a memorial was erected by what lady? ______________________
3. N42o14.785 W085o34.351 The weight limit on the vehicle bridge is ____ tons
4. N42o17.424 W085o33.878 What is the complete name of the football/soccer arena at this park? (not the baseball arena) Four words.
5. N42o15.736 W085o36.772 There are ____ steps up from the beach to the restrooms
6. N42o16.525 W085o37.434 This park is the only one is Kalamazoo which caters to a certain sport. There are 18 baskets in this park, each with a yellow, brand name label which says ________ (one word - 10 letters)
7. N42o16.659 W085o35.170 The motto of this park is ____________ ( 3 words)
8. N42o18.101 W085o36.496 This is the only park in Kalamazoo designed specifically for dogs. How many benches are in this park, both inside and outside the fence?
9. N42o16.832 W085o35.334 This park originally had a different function and name. What was the name in the mid 19th century? (Read the entire sign carefully)
10. N42o16.456 W085o34.280 The full name of this park is _____________
11. N42o16.205 W085o35.251 One sign says NO DOGS _____________ (2 words)
12. N42o17.390 W085o35.810 The main attraction in this park is named ___________
13. N42o17.835 W085o34.436 The memorial in this park is named the _____________ Memorial. (3 words)
14. N42o18.152 W085o35.589 This park was redesigned in the summer of 2011. How many swings are now in the park?
15. N42o18.974 W085o33.233 Who is the manufacturer of the play equipment several yards to the east of the climbing wall?
16. N42o18.038 W085o38.553 How many benches in this west side neighborhood park?
17. N42o17.524 W085o36.259 The person who laid out this portion of the city of Kalamazoo was named ________________
18. N42o17.699 W085o34.381 The full name of this park is ______________. The number of wars, conflicts, etc. as listed is ________
Take the sum of all the values from the parks east of Burdick St (W085o35.000), multiply by 12, then add 268. Use this 5-digit number to fill in the X’s in N42oXX.XXX. Take the sum of the values from west of Burdick St., multiply by 25, then add 740. Use this 5-digit number to fill in the Y’s in W085oYY.YYY. This gives the coordinates for the cache which is located in a park not on the list. The cache is a regular size ammo box. There are all new items in the cache for trade. Lots of trees in the area of the cache - look around. Also watch out for any poison ivy.
If you want to e-mail me your values before heading out to the cache site, I'll certainly tell you which ones you might have wrong, if any.
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[Please take care doing the math part - check, check, check, and then check once more.}