Summer Park hours are 6am-10pm. Winter park hours are 6am-6pm.
A straight-forward Solvable-On-Site cache (with a nice view of the Hudson area). Park in one of the Prospect Park lots and make your way to the posted coordinates, where you'll find a small rock marking the final resting place of Silas Snell (more details on him below if you're curious who he was).
The final coordinates are:
N44 58.476
W092 45.XXX
Where XXX is the date inscribed on the marker minus 1716.
Cache is not far away (located in another part of the park) and should be accessible any time of year. A camoflaged pill bottle awaits - room for log and pencil only. Enjoy the great views from this area!
Prospect Park is located on Liberty Hill, overlooking the St. Croix River and the roofs and steeples of Hudson. The park is adjacent to the location of the old Hudson Hospital.
Snell was, reputedly, the first white man buried in Hudson. A legendary tale accompanies that marker Capt. John B. Page (1800-1865), a retired sea captain from Maine, came to this locality in the early 1840s, lured by the rich virgin timber, and settled in what is now Hudson. At that early date the settlement was simply called Page's Landing. Under Capt. Page, loggers were busy at work by 1847, when Page established a logging camp on the Willow River. As a footnote to history, we know that Page's daughter Abigail was the first white child born in Hudson on April 15, 1847, the same day the first steamboat landed on the shore at Hudson. Along with Capt. Page had come another riverman by the name of Silas Snell (sometimes spelled Schnell). It was told that one day Snell was out on the St. Croix River with Capt. Page and was deeply impressed with the beauty of the high, wooded bluff we know as Liberty Hill. Snell said to Capt. Page, "When I die I would like to be buried on the top of that bluff." Capt. Page replied, "If you die before me, I will put you there." Not long afterward, Silas Snell did die. As a man of his word, Page kept his promise. Page cut a path from the bottom of the densely wooded bluff to the top and Snell's body was carried to its final resting place. However, it was more than 70 years until the modest monument to Snell was erected on Liberty Hill by the Hudson Park Board in October 1921.