Celebrate Leap Year by looking for the Leap Year Cache! NOTICE: This cache will be archived and removed on March 1, 2021
A leap year is a year in which an extra day in added to the calendar in order to synchronize it with the seasons. Since the tropical year is 365.242190 days long, a leap year must be used roughly once every four years. In a leap year, the extra day (known as a leap day) is added at the end of February, giving it 29 instead of the usual 28 days. In the Gregorian calendar currently in use worldwide there is a leap year every year divisible by four except for years which are both divisible by 100 and not divisible by 400. 2004 is a leap year.
Our first Leap Year Cache was put in place on "Leap Day", February 29, 2004. We also had Leap Year caches launched on February 29 2008, 2012 and 2016. This cache will remain active for one year.
This year's Leap Day is very special in that it is on the 5th Saturday of February which occurs only every 28 years. In the last 400 years there has been only 14 fifth Saturdays in February. The next one we be in the year 2028.
This cache is in a clear plastic container.
This cache is located within Willow Metropark, a part of the Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority park system. A Metropark Vehicle Entry Permit is required: Annual Permit $40. Senior Permit $29. Daily Permit $10.
For General information please call 810-227-2752 or 800-47-PARKS. Or visit our website at WWW.metroparks.com.
All park rules and regulations apply. Park in parking lots only. Check the Metroparks website for park hours.
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The permit for this cache was submitted prior to the 4/15/2019 deadline and was approved by Kevin Arnold | Southern District Interpretive Services Supervisor Huron-Clinton Metroparks on 04/29/19 The permit for this cache was renewed prior to the 4/15/2020 deadline and again was approved by Kevin Arnold | Southern District Interpretive Services Supervisor Huron-Clinton Metroparks on 04/8/20