Olmsted Park Series: South Park Traditional Cache
Rayman: As promised, I stopped by to pick this one up. Thanks to all who visited.
Olmsted Park Series: South Park
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This is the first in a series of caches designed to take you on a
tour of parks and other places designed by world famous landscape
architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Inside is a clue which will lead
you to a final cache location. Be sure to write this clue down
so you can find the final.
Building upon the success of his work in north Buffalo, Frederick
Law Olmsted proposed additional parks and parkways for other parts
of the city in the 1880s and 1890s. In a lengthy report Olmsted
created in 1888, he planned for an extensive lakefront park
connected to the city by a canal. It generated very little
enthusiasm among the locals. Discussion of a series of parks in the
south part of the city dragged on until 1893 when the city finally
approved the acquisition of land at two sites considerably inland
from the spot Olmsted originally proposed.
The larger of the two parks was South Park and was located on
marshy ground hemmed in by railroad tracks and industrial sites.
Prior to the park being established, the area assumed the status of
an arboretum as education came to be thought of as a motive for
parks, in addition to scenery and recreation. The Botanical Gardens
near the main entrance to the park was built in 1898.
Most of the park preserves its original pastoral character that
Olmsted designed. Only the creation of the golf course, baseball
diamonds, and playground areas differ from original plans. The
lake, the central feature of the park, exists much the same way as
originally planned. Its irregular marshy borders and wild overgrown
islands is one of the best surviving examples of an Olmsted urban
park lake.
The cache is a small cammoed Lock & Lock near the northern
border of the park. Your best bet for parking is along the side of
Hopkins Road. Despite being placed in the winter, I could still see
plenty of rusty junk and tires scattered throughout the entire
wooded area, so keep an eye on where you walk and the kids too.
Please do not hunt for this cache at night.
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