GC1MWRF Duck Lake State Park CITO Event (Cache In Trash Out Event) in Michigan, United States created by Wabaningo

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Wabaningo_Ranch: Thanks again to all the participates at the event. We made a great impact on the park. I can still see the difference we made along Scenic Drive even today. It was nice to have a larger group of adults help to set a positive example for the kids on how we can make a difference with our cache int trash out efforts!

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Hidden : Saturday, May 2, 2009

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Duck Lake State Park CITO Event on Sat. May 2, 2009

The 7th Annual Cache In Trash Out Events are scheduled for May 2nd, 2009 all around the world.

Let's lend a hand to help take care of our little corner of it.

About the C.I.T.O. Event:

Clean-up activities will occur from 9:00am on Saturday through noon. A hotdog and hamburger lunch will be provided from noon-1:00 at the parks pavillion. Bring a side dish to pass if you are so inclined. Utensils and plates will also be provided. The parking coordinates are to the parking lot adjacent to pavilion. Enter the park from the main entrance on Scenic Drive through the first parking lot and turn left up the hill prior to reaching the boat launch. Turn right at the stop sign at the "T" in the road. This will lead to the parking lot where lunch will later be served. This is where we will distribute supplies and split up team duties.

Parking coordinates: N 43° 20.630 W 086° 23.836

We will to complete the clean-up prior to the Fruitland Township's Recycling Center on Michillinda Road closes; however the State Park has arranged for the garbage we gather to be transported to Muskegon State Park Dumpsters. This will also provide plenty of time for volunteer cachers to enjoy the many local caches and the newly published Flash Mob Event.

This Duck Lake State Park CITO Event has been planned in with assistance of Muskegon State Park Park Manager. We have selected this inviting state park along the scenic shores of Lake Michigan because it is near and dear to our family and we would like to share it with you. The park manager has approved the event and has confirmed that any volunteer may be admitted to the park without any fees to those who possess a printed paper or digital copy of this web page.

Supplies that will be provided: trash bags, plastic recycling plans, bottle recycling plans, water bottles, safety vests(required for those volunteering along Scenic Dr.), trailer(s), tarps, snacks, gloves, first aid needs, wheel barrels, hammer, drill, swag, log book, utensils, and plates.

We intend to draw for volunteer event related door prizes during lunch.

About Duck Lake State Park:

The Ottawa Indians in the region originally named Duck Lake Jibski Sagagen.

Charles Mears built a sawmill at the mouth of the lake in 1848 along with a three story boarding house and store.

In 1920 the Boy Scouts of Chicago purchased 100 acres at the channel and started Camp Wabaningo, aquiring the rest of the land a few years later.

In 1927 the land transferred to the Grand Rapids Council and Camp Shawondossee was started.

In 1975 the land was sold to the State of Michigan.

Duck Lake State Park is a 728-acre day-use park, located in Muskegon County. Featuring a towering sand dune, the park stretches from the northern shore of Duck Lake to Lake Michigan. The terrain is a mixture of open brush land to mature hardwood forest, with some pockets of open meadows mixed in. The land was purchased by the Nature Conservancy from two Boy Scout organizations, and acquired by the state in 1974. Remains of the old scout camps were removed and access roads were constructed. The park was officially dedicated in the spring of 1988. A new entrance off of Scenic Drive was completed in May 2005.

What's the Clean-Up Challenge?

The park is need of some spring cleaning. The most abused area of the park was recently clean-up during an Eagle Scout project. This particular region of the park has had garbage and debris tossed at this particular location for as long as I could remember walking through the park. State Park and Boy Scout efforts have definitely made a significant positive impact on this site the past few years, but there is still room for improvement. The CITO team focused here and neighboring trails will be the Glass Gobblers, as we see a lot of turkeys at this particular location in the park.

Other regions of the park are also in need of spring cleaning. Those interested in leading small cleaning teams should post a note of the web page. The park areas needing attention will be prioritized and color-coded maps will be provided to volunteers to make sure the D.L.S.P. realizes the most return for the volunteer efforts available. Some of the regional cleaning teams will include the Beach Bums, Channel Cats, Road Recyclers, Parking Police, Garbage Gobblers, and Extreme Trashers.

This is the final version of the park map clean-up plan.

Through the years Wabaningo_Ranch has removed mulitple 55 gallon barrels from this park. We will provide specific coordinates to other partial barrels andtires for other ambitious CITO cachers that would like to be a part of a more phyisically demanding, rewarding CITO retrieval tasks. The is one localized area on the east end of the park, labeled as Extreme Trash, which contains many, many rusty steel containers, glass bottles, bricks, and blocks.

If you are interested in leading one of the regional clean-up teams or would like to assemble your own team of cachers to work together, please post a note and we will make it work. Thanks in advance for your selfless acts. Posting a note would also assist on planning for the appropriate headcount. We look forward to sharing a fun day outdoors filled with work, adventure, food, fun, and laughter!