Lost Along the Yellowstone Trail Traditional Geocache
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Lost Along the Yellowstone Trail
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This cache is NOT one of Zuma's Yellowstone Trail caches. If you are looking for this cache, you must be "lost" along the Yellowstone Trail. This cache is located in the small village of Granton, just off Highway 10. You can park in the village park parking lot and you will need to hike through the park and up a hill to get to the cache. Permission to hide the cache was given by the ag instructor at the school. You will notice their orchard nearby where the cache is hidden.
Granton is a town that might remind a person of everybody's favorite small TV town, Mayberry. You won't find Sheriff Andy Taylor but you might find the village constable mowing the lawn at the village park or plowing snow from the sidewalks. A lot of the traffic through town are Amish buggies and John Deere tractors.
Granton became a town about a hundred years ago when the railroad decided to put a set of tracks between two smaller, neighboring villages called Mapleworks and Windfall Corners. Those two communities trace their histories back to the 1850s. Today those two names are preserved in the town by the Mapleworks Cafe and the Windfall cemetery.
Across the street from the park you will notice the Granton School. There is something to be said about a town where the largest employer is its school. The high school has about 100 students, some years more, some less. While Granton is a school with a proud athletic tradition, if you were to look in its trophy case, you would probably see more ag and FFA trophies than sports championships. Granton also has its own library, two Lutheran churches, both named Zion, and what might be one of the largest Mennonite churches in the area. The drive into town from the east brings you past many Amish farms while the drive in from the west takes you along the Pleasant Ridge, offering some spectacular views to the north and the south along Highway 10.
The coordinates will bring you close to the village park. This can be a very busy place on evenings and weekends during the summer, with softball and Little League games, tournaments, the annual Park Picnic, and of course the Granton Fall Festival. The high school baseball team also plays its games here in the spring. On the Sunday afternoon we hid the cache, there were some families having a party in one of the shelters, some teenagers hanging out in the gazebo, some kids on the playground, and a few people fishing up at the pond. When the concession stand is open, you can get goodies from a wall of penny candy (well, it used to be that cheap), to hot sandwiches, a cold beverage, and all kinds of other snacks.
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