THE CACHE IS NOT LOCATED AT THE POSTED COORDINATES, and involves a .30 mile walk in each direction mostly along The Quaas Creek Trail. See below for directions. This is one of 66 caches placed for the 2022 West Bend $1,000 Cache Ba$h, with this year’s theme being FUN AND GAMES. Parking is available in the northern half of the parking lot at N43 25.055 W88 08.710 (recommended for this cache and the other new cache in the north half of the park) or in the southern half of the parking lot at N43 24.950 W88 08.705 (closer to the two new caches in the south half of the park).
This is also a letterbox hybrid cache. Letterboxing is another outdoor activity in which people follow clues or a story (rather than just coordinates) to find a container and then put their personal stamp in the logbook and then stamp their own journal with the stamp from the cache.
A letterbox hybrid, like this one, is both a geocache and a letterbox. It can include both coordinates AND clues to get you to the final location. Follow the instructions in the following paragraphs to be directed to the actual cache location. Contents include a stamp (do not take) for letterboxing, as well as a log book and swag for geocachers and letterboxers.
YOUR ADVENTURE AWAITS
1. Your adventure begins on the nicely paved Quaas Creek Trail, located about 400 feet from the parking lot. You can follow the path between the baseball diamonds to get there from the lot, unless you’re coming from another direction. The official beginning point for this geocache is at N43 25.030 W88 08.803, right down the first base line from one of the baseball diamonds. Nothing to find here, although there is a really cool stump at this location. We would have placed a geocache in it, but it’s pretty close to the trail and easily muggled. That’s the Milwaukee River you’re looking at to the west. The Creek comes later…
2. Walk south on the trail until you come to a fork about 425 feet away. Don’t go left – that will take you to the pickleball courts and the playground. Take a right at the fork and continue along going southwest.
3. You’ll come to another very obvious fork on the trail in about 463 feet, passing by some houses off in the distance on your left. Turn RIGHT (north/northwest) at this fork.
4. Go about another 240 feet N/NW and stop. You should now be standing in the center of a bridge. You are now also standing over Quaas Creek, from which the park gets its name. You’re also only 57 feet away from the cache!
5. From the center of the bridge, looking southwest you’ll see a grouping of 6 or 7 trees clumped together only 57 feet away. Head over there at a bearing of 215 degrees (it’s a light bushwhack), and you’ll find the geocache.
We hope you enjoy your letterbox hybrid adventure! J J
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The Geocache Notification Form has been submitted to 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