I grew up fish'n, frog'n and swim'n in the Wakarusa River with my buddies. Could not think of a better place to put a cache. You won't have to traverse down to the river unless you want to see a gentle winding river that makes its way from southern Shawnee County to Eudora Kansas where the river joins with the Kansas River. It was dammed in the early 1970's to create Clinton Resevior.
The river is known for its gentle current that winds through outcroppings of Pennsylvanian limestone. It was inhabited by the Kansas and Osage indian tribes in the 1800's. The legend of the river is that a young native american girl was crossing the river on horseback and exclaimed, "Wakarusa," meaning 'hip deep', and the name remains today.
Most of the swimming holes my friends and I would go to were just about that, hip deep.