NFDL's Yellowstone Park on the Yellowstone Trail Multi-Cache
Wis Kid: As there has been no owner action in the last 30 days, I am regrettably forced to archive this listing.
NFDL's Yellowstone Park on the Yellowstone Trail
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This is a quick mutlicache. Go to the listed coordinates, and
admire the great Yellowstone Trail sign that they have placed here.
From the east side of the sign, walk 195 feet due north, and you
will find a matchstick container. There is no need to crouch or
crawl in your search, just feel for it.
North Fon Du Lac has a small triangular shaped park, right on the
historic Yellowstone Trail route, which they have designated as the
Yellowstone Park. The park doesn't have much, except for a very
large map of the trail through Wisconsin, and a yellow stone
marking the trail, and a big red caboose.
This is one of several caches I have placed along the route of the
historic Yellowstone Trail. The trail is a historic motor route
that went across Wisconsin from 1918 to 1930.
The Wisconsin portion of the Yellowstone Trail is 406 miles long,
starting at the state line south of Kenosha and going north, and
then west to Hudson. The Wisconsin segment is just a part of one of
America’s first transcontinental auto routes, a 3,754-mile long
road that started in Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts and went to Puget
Sound, Washington.
Before there were numbered highways in the United States there were
names attached to roads to help motorists navigate from town to
town or from county to county. Hailed as being “A Good Road from
Plymouth Rock to Puget Sound,” the Yellowstone Trail began as a
25-mile stretch of road near Ipswitch, South Dakota. In October
1912, Mr. J. W. Parmley formed the Yellowstone Trail Association.
By 1917 the Yellowstone Trail had grown to become the main auto
route for those travelling from the East Coast to Yellowstone
National Park and the Pacific Northwest.
While the Association did not build roads, it did lobby local
governments in towns along the Trail to help promote the fledgling
automobile tourism industry by building and maintaining “good
roads.” Trail towns paid the Association a small fee or
“assessment” to help cover advertising expenses and upkeep of the
Trail.
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