Welcome to Whitmore Nature Preserve. This is a beautiful nature park near the community of Whitmore Lake, hence the name. The park sits on land donated to Washtenaw County by landowners in the area and is used for preservation/conservation of natural land including all the flora, fauna and wildlife. The overall property is an amalgamation of a few different properties donated by very generous folks in the area and you will see on the main signs exactly who donated what land. The park hours are dawn to dusk so please do not attempt at night. Anyways, this particular nature area contains around 1.8 miles or so of an unpaved trail system that manuevers around the property. At the entrance to the park sits the main trail that goes for about half a mile until you arrive at an open, hilly, grassland. This is where the trail splits to the left and right each as the red trail. If you choose the right path, you will make your way up the hill to the next trail marker where this splits into the green and blue sections of the trail. The blue/green section amounts to around 2/3 of a mile, depending on which way you go. Further North the trail branches off, this is the yellow loop. This loop is over half a mile long. Each color trail will have a mini series on it which will all condense into a final cache.
This specific hide is on the Red Trail. This trail will contain 2-3 hides that will be combined with the other series' for the final. Each cache will be placed sequentially so that spacing is taken into account so that there are not too many caches too close together. The final number of caches combined from every trail will be 10 with a few extra bonus ones as well.
So, GZ is just off the trail. Container is a green camoed matchstick container. The hide is within 10 feet of the path so you do not have to venture too far off the path. Also, please be stealthy as there are others that visit this park so please hide the cache back well. It is a very good idea to bring bug spray if you are attempting this in the summer/fall months as it can get quite buggy out here. Be sure to wear boots or shoes that can get dirty as there are quite a few muddy spots on the path. There is a bunch of poison ivy and poison oak around the cache so be mindful of that and wear long pants if you're able to. Good Luck and Happy Caching :)
*Congrats to HelloLola on the FTF*