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Another addition to the Kill Creek Park series.
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. Please note that dogs are welcome in this park, but they must be on a leash; another cacher found out the hard way: it's a $40 fine.
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. Although there is no official parking place there, this cache can best be reached from the horse trail gate at the south end of the park on 127th street.
If you cannot deal with TICKS, you might not want 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. If you like the "natural setting", you will love this park. The downside is that during warm weather, there is always a good chance of encountering ticks. Of course, PI, snakes and mosquitoes may also be around during warm weather.
This cache is an ammo can hidden just off a horse trail. Please be sure to hide it as well as or better than you found it.
There is an unactivated geocoin for FTF.
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