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.
In the late 1800s, the short length of Zoll Street from Main to the water’s edge was a bustling center of lumbering activity with the Crowl Lumber Mill and the Carey Hoop Company and lengths of lumber stretching to the harbor. Today, the end of Zoll Street is a small public-access beach on Little Traverse Bay. Located near by is one of many artesian springs. The water flowing from above the bluff, hits an impervious layer of clay on its way to the Bay and springs out of the ground all along the northern shore of the Bay. This beach is known for being dog-friendly. Muggles abound on warm, sunny summer days.
Also on Zoll Street, the Deer Park is a family-favorite stop. A large fenced area is home to a herd of deer who are accustomed to people visiting them and watching them dine at their feeding station. The deer park is tucked behind the City of Harbor Springs’ City Hall and Police Station which both occupy adaptively reused buildings that were once part of the city’s electric light plant.