The cache IS at the posted coordinates, but you have to complete the logging requirements below before finding the final
Many counties have large unified school districts. St. Louis County currently has 22 school districts plus the Special School District (which serves all school districts) The challenge is to find a a geocache within the boundaries of each school district. The final does NOT count as a find for Rockwood. The difficulty rating is for finding 22 caches. The Terrain and Attributes are for the final.
EDIT: A clarification about Rockwood school district-- Although most of Rockwood is in St. Louis county, portions of Rockwood School district are in Jefferson county. You need to find a geocache that is in the St. Louis county portion of Rockwood for this challenge. The macro and KML files only show/count the St. Louis portion.
Also the School District KML file shows a small portion of Meramec Valley district. However, the majority of it is not in st. Louis county and the portion that is in St. Louis county does not have any active geocaches. You do NOT need to find a geocache in the Meramec Valley School district to complete this challenge
How are you at your St. Louis school district trivia?
- Can you name the 3 school districts that start with the same letter?
- Can you name the 2 school districts that are hyphenated?
- Which school district covers the largest area?
- Which school district covers the smallest area?
Currently there is at least 1 active geocache in each of the school districts in St. Louis County (except Jennings and the Special School District, as all the geocaches are within the Special School district boundary). You can find a general map of school district boundaries here.
Here are the rules:
- You have to log a geocache within the boundaries of each school district (except JENNINGS)
- Caches found before and after the published date of this cache will qualify
- The boundaries are defined from the St. Louis county website. I have created 2 GSAK macros STL_School_District_Challenge (use v1.03 or higher) and SchoolDistrictChallengeNotFound that can assist you in this by adding a School district field to your database and by filtering for caches in districts where you don't have a find respectively. It is NOT necessary to use GSAK or these macros to complete the cache.
- You can also use Google Earth and the St. Louis School District KML file in combination with Geocache Google Earth viewer to get a fairly good idea of which district a geocache falls in. If you are not sure how to do this check out the tutorial(Note that Wellston school district merged with Normandy, so if you claim a cache found in Wellston it counts for Normandy)
- If there is a question as to which district a geocache falls in, the macro reigns supreme.
- The original coordinates on geocaching.com are what count (i.e. if a puzzle or multi’s final is in a different school district than the original, the original counts). The macro uses the original coordinates
- Types of caches that count are those that have a physical log :Traditional, Multi, Letterbox, Mystery, Wherigo
- Logging requirements –
I prefer a bookmark list, but will accept a list of geocaches in your log that includes geocache code, placed date, find date, and school district.
Logs that do not provide a valid list of geocaches will be deleted.