Long before this park contained an 18 hole golf course and
a frisbee golf course it was known locally as Chenoweth Park
following the tradition of the Louisville park system of using
Native Americans tribes that once inhabited this area as the name
for the park. This park because of its location did not get much
use back in the seventies when I first visited the park.
At the age of eleven I first visited this park while attending a
2 week summer day camp. Cherokee Day Camp as it was called then
started out with a long bus ride from school to school picking up
kids throughout Jefferson county. The usual songs were sang along
the way, you know the ones... There's a hole in the bucket dear
Liza, John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith and many more. As we got off
the bus at Chenoweth Park we would walk across the field to a trail
that entered the woods that lead to an area called the chapel. It
was in the middle of the woods and was made out of logs placed in a
semi-circle around a small stage and flag. This camp was where you
learned to shoot and arrow, swim, canoe on a pond and drink
lemonade called bug juice. The highlight of the two weeks was an
overnight which for me turned out to be a disaster as a thunder
storm moved in and we spent 3 scary hours in the lightning in that
tin pavilion up on the hill. Then we were bused to a church to
spend the night in my wet sleeping bag. I did enjoy the best beef
stew I had ever eaten, strange thing is I did not like beef stew
until that night. All in all this was one of the most enjoyable
summers I ever had.
I missed the camp the next year, but came back when I was
thirteen. It was sad that year to realize all the things I had
enjoyed so much a couple of years back now were boring to this
teenager. But I did enjoy the games of capture the flag and a
scavenger hunt that was a lot like geocaching. Again this year our
overnight was threatened by thunderstorms but after riding them out
in the same tin building we were able to stay outside after
all.
After some time with little use, the park system expanded the
nearby golf course and in fact put some of the holes in the same
woods that we would conduct the camp in. The name was changes to
reflect the newly expanded golf course but to me it will always be
Chenoweth.
Cache is a match container with a few trade items and a
logbook
This cache placed and maintained by a
member of Geocky, InKy and the Heartland Geocachers
