No walking required, you can drive right up next to the cache. There's lots of history on this location, read about it below.
This geocache is on the site of the Gasconade Hotel, the grandest structure ever erected in Lebanon MO. Having the capacity to house up to 500 guests, the hotel also provided a ballroom, restaurant, reception rooms, and a bathhouse next to the magnetic well. Sure that people would flock from all over the country to partake of the healing waters, its builders were sorely disappointed when the hotel was not successful. Soon it became and sanatorium, but that was also short-lived. Next, it was used for community events and there was talk of turning the beautiful structure into a college. However, just ten years after it was built, the Gasconade Hotel was totally destroyed by fire in October 1899.
Thanks to The Lebanon Park Dept. for granting permission to place this cache.
Park Hours 6:00AM to 10:30PM
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NOTICE: Please be respectful of the posted hours for this park. If you enter the park after hours you are trespassing. If you are stopped you can be ticketed, or arrested and will put the future of geocaching in jeopardy.
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