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It's Bigger Than You Think Traditional Cache

Hidden : 4/7/2017
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

It's bigger than you think - the park, that is.  

 

Welcome to Belmont Mound State Park.  I've been here several times and always thought the park was just the mound with the tower.  Boy was I wrong! Since this is hidden in a state park a vehicle park sticker is required.


Explore more of this beautiful state park that stretches quite a ways back from the mound.  This seldom used park is a haven for wildlife, with deer paths that look almost as big as cow paths and lots of other critters scurring about.  

There's a trail that starts at the bottom of the mound, on the left, below the road. Follow that to the old trail to the left.  If you follow the trail/old road to the end of the park you'll come to another service road by the State Natural Area.  Go right (away from the SNA) and keep following that road, but don't go north of the road or you'll be on private property.  You'll come to a steel gate across the service road but keep going - that isn't the edge of the park.  If you go up over the little rise you'll see an orange gate and next to that are the state park boundary signs.  It would be much shorter to just bushwhack, but given the amount of underbrush and briers it's not recommended.  

The Geocache Notification Form has been submitted to John Arthur and Michael Degenhardt of the Wisconsin DNR. Geocaches placed on Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource managed lands require permission by means of a notification form. Please print out a paper copy of the notification form, fill in all required information, then submit it to the land manager. The DNR Notification form and land manager information can be obtained at: http://dnr.wi.gov/files/PDF/forms/2500/2500-118.pdf

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