This
is a Johnson County Parks & Recreation District park located in
western Johnson County between De Soto and Olathe. It is the newest
and third regional park in the District’s system. Opened in 2001
the park, easily accessible and yet secluded, encompasses 884
acres. Nestled within the park's beautiful natural setting are four
picnic shelters, a swimming beach, a marina, and 17 miles of trails
including hiking, mountain bike and equestrian trails and an
asphalt trail for walking, hiking and bicycling. All of these
caches are placed with District permission and comply with District
guidelines. Park hours are 5am to 11pm for March through October
and 7:30am to 8pm for November through February.
The Kill Creek Park entrance is located near 116th and Homestead
Lane. To get to the park, get off of Kansas Highway 10 at the Kill
Creek exit and proceed south to 115th Street. Turn right and go to
Homestead Lane. Take a left onto Homestead and the park entrance is
on the right near the crest of the first hill. Note: As these five
caches (#9 - #13) are all in the north part of the park, the 111th
Street access point (turn west on 111th from Kill Creek Road) will
provide the nearest parking.
If you cannot deal with
TICKS,
do not even go into this park until winter. Where deer are
abundant, ticks are more so. During tick season (mid-March to hard
freeze, usually in November), even with bug repellant, tick
encounters are virtually guaranteed. These five (#9 - #13) caches
are all located near unpaved hiking, mountain biking or horse
trails. When hiding them, Snooth had only a light dose of repellant
(spray-can ran out). He knocked off or killed over a dozen ticks
while in the woods. A tick inspection in the parking lot found
another 10 or so. Upon return home, found around 20 seed ticks that
had gotten under his clothing. If you like the "natural setting",
you will love this park. The downside is that
there is simply no
way you can go after these caches in warm weather without
encountering ticks.
Of course, PI and snakes may also be around during warm weather.
Also lots of thorns and mosquitoes.
There are an unactivated geocoin and an unactivated TB tag among
these five new caches. No telling which ones.
This cache is a painted quart-size lock-top plastic container.
Again, we couldn't get the greatest accuracy. So please let us know
how they work for you. And if you get different coords with better
accuracy, please send them to us.