The Emmet County Water Quest Geo-trail will take participants to both famous and obscure places in Emmet County to learn about locations and people that made the county famous.
This cache is part of the Emmet County Water Quest Geo-Trail. When discovering the “wet” historic places in Emmet County each cache will provide a specific answer to a question on the passport. Information and the passport can be downloaded from the Emmet County web site
http://www.emmetcounty.org/geocache/
Once 25 of the caches in this tour have been completed, the passport can be taken to Emmet County Building, Suite 178 or mailed to Beth Eckerle, Emmet County Building, Suite 178, 200 Division St., Petoskey, MI 49770 to receive a collectable souvenir coin for this series.
Sturgeon Bay was a small lumbering community located on what is now the southern border of Wilderness State Park. The first mill was founded by Alfred B. Klise in 1895 and the small town sprung up around the mill. It boasted a saw mill, blacksmith shop, small general store, post office, and a boarding house. It was a large scale operation that deemed a logging railway necessary. The Sturgeon Bay Railway ran from the shore of Lake Michigan east about 14 miles to within two miles of Levering, Michigan. The mill closed in 1913. Today almost nothing remains of the community of Sturgeon Bay. Instead a beautiful waterfront recreation area is open to the public.
To reach the cache, follow the path to Lake Michigan and walk the shoreline to the cache.