First things first: Please put it back where you found it and cover it back up when you're done.
Another cache in Englewood MetroPark in honor of SM325. Yes, you have permission from Five Rivers to look for it (as I did for placing it--Permit #GO6850.19).
SM325 continues to demonstrate that I'm an amateur at retiring. And he continues to get Amazing help doing it. I actually started the permission process with Five Rivers slightly before SM325 reached 20K. But nobody can review geocaches faster than SM325 can find them. (The reviewer seems to publish them at lightning speed but it still won't surprise me if he's at 25K before this gets published (and I'm being hopefully presumptuous there). (If that happens, I'm just gonna change the name of the cache and apologize to SM325 for totally missing 20K.))
It's very near the parking lot. Please watch out for muggles. (Maybe just hang around for a few minutes and muggles will think you're indigenous?) It was originally a gallon or so sized pretzel container but it recently got downsized to a 1.5 quart or so peanut/trail mix jug. (I intend to fix that when I get another gallon-sized jug.) There's not a trail (yet). The bushwhacking isn't real bad but you need to watch out for spiderwebs, possibly with occupants, and stuff on the ground trying to grab your feet. (That explains the terrain rating for what's almost a parking lot cache.) Watch out for cars in the parking lot and driveway leading out of the park. My electronic playmate thinks the cache is within 10 feet of the coordinates, in between hiccups, but I'm still, as always, going to be checking them when the foliation goes away.
Please observe the park's hours. Here's a picture of the sign at the park's entrance:
And again, please put it back where you found it and cover it back up when you're done.
Congratulations, SM325!
A Note About Travel Items for People Who May Not Be Familiar With Them
In addition to trade items (commonly known as "swag"), geocaches quite often contain travel bugs or geocoins. These items are not for general trading. They are "travel items." They are the property of other people and their goal is to be taken from one cache by geocachers and then placed in other caches, i.e., to travel from cache to cache. There are two types of travel items, travel bugs and geocoins. These items must be logged separately from logging the find for the geocache. There's a "special process" for that. A travel bug is usually some type of trinket (such as a small stuffed animal) with what looks like a dog tag attached to it. Sometimes it's just the dog tag. Either way, the dog tag will have a string of letters or numbers on it. Geocoins will also have such a string imprinted on or engraved into them. That string is called the "tracking number." It is important for logging the travel item as it's retrieved from and placed in geocaches. Please watch out for such items and do not take them if you don't intend on helping them travel to another geocache or do not wish to learn the logging procedure.