THE CACHE IS NOT LOCATED AT THE POSTED COORDINATES, and involves a .24 mile walk each way from the first stage to the final along the Riverfront Parkway 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, with this cache highlighting the card game of BRIDGE. You’re looking for an ammo box-sized cache, crossing three BRIDGES and the Milwaukee River. Bushwhacking not needed.
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.
PARKING
Parking is available in the southern half of Riverside Park in the parking lot at N43 25.060 W88 10.254 (recommended for this cache and another right next to the lot), or in the norteast half of the park in the small parking lot at N43 25.515 W88 09.703. There are several new caches placed along the trail. If you have two cars with a group and plan on finding all the new ones along the trail during the Cache Ba$h, you could park at car at both locations, and start from the south side of the park and work your way north.
YOUR ADVENTURE AWAITS
1. From the parking lot head north on the trail to the starting coordinates at the bridge at N43 25.913 W88 10.254. You’re on the Riverfront Parkway Trail, passing by hole #17 of the nearby disc course and as you approach the bridge and cross the Milwaukee River.
2. Immediately after crossing the bridge you’ll see the trail goes two ways - straight or sharp left. Don’t go left, as that takes you to another parking lot, passing by a cool pointy sculpture thingy along the way. Continue straight (north).
3. Go another 100 feet or so and you’ll come to a fork in the path. Decisions. The left fork is a nice paved trail; the right fork is a gravel trail, both of which are named the Riverfront Parkway Trail! You’ll need to go RIGHT and take the gravel trail. But wait – there is a West Bend geotour cache to the left, and it’s only 125 feet away! (GC53C8Q - WBGT 05: Sculpture Walk) It’s in bushes, behind the bench, at the base of a sign post. If you haven’t found that one yet, go get it! We’ll wait… but afterward remember to take the gravel trail heading N/NE.
4. Continue on the trail to bridge #2. And guess what – it crosses the Milwaukee River. Didn’t you just do that?
5. After bridge #2, continue along the trail and you’ll see a rather unusual looking T-shaped sculpture thingy. PHOTO OP TIME! After that, continue on to bridge #3, which is 465 feet past bridge #2. You can’t miss it! And it crosses the Milwaukee River. Again.
6. Okay, almost done. After crossing bridge #3, go another 71 feet northwest while on the trail and stop. Look to your left (west) and you’ll see a really cool tree just several feet off the path. No climbing necessary. That’s where you’ll find what you’re looking for. You’re done!
7. Now the big question – do you keep going on the trail N/NW for the other three new caches, or head back to the car and relocate it to the NE parking lot to grab the other three? Inquiring minds want to know!
BRIDGE, THE GAME
Bridge is a trick-taking card game, considered by many to be the greatest card game of all, and it can provide immense challenge and enjoyment for life. It is played by four players in two competing partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other around a table. Millions of people play bridge worldwide in clubs, tournaments, online, or with friends at home, making it one of the world's most popular card games. We were going to explain how to play it, but you’ve already read enough!
We hope you enjoy your letterbox hybrid adventure!
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