THE GEOCACHE
This is one of 66 geocaches placed for the 2023 West Bend $1,000 Cache Ba$h. The theme of this year’s bash is BLAST FROM THE PAST, with this cache highlighting the classic TV show HAPPY DAYS. Please leave the bash stamp in the cache for other finders to also use. There are 5 geocaches located here at Cedar Valley Retreat Center, all in close proximity to trails and placed with permission. Hours are from dawn to dusk, and parking is available at N43 28.120 W88 18.265.
The easiest way to get to this cache is to take the White Tail Deer Trail, walk through the praying hands sculpture (you’ll see…), and then on to the cache. See map below. We hope you enjoy your walk at Cedar Valley!
HAPPY DAYS
Happy Days is one of the most successful TV sitcoms of all time and it aired for 11 seasons in the 70s and 80s. The series revolved around (initially) high school life in the 1950s and early 1960s in none other than Milwaukee, Wisconsin! The central character on the show was teenager Richie Cunningham, his friends Potsie Weber and Ralph Malph, and Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli, the leather jacket-clad, cool, suave ladies' man, who would eventually become Richie's best friend. The show made bonafide stars of Ron Howard (“Richie”) and Henry Winkler (“Fonzie”), and spawned five spinoffs, including Laverne & Shirley and Mork & Mindy.
THE GROUNDS
Cedar Valley Retreat Center is a 100-acre private property with trails, ponds, a creek, woods, prairies, farmland, sculptures, and numerous buildings that host people and events, including retreats and many kinds of art workshops. As part of the United Church Camps Outdoor Ministry, they welcome people to stroll the grounds to enjoy the peace and quiet of the outdoors. Suggested route to find the caches is to start with this cache at the farm and go in a “mostly” counter-clockwise direction, as shown on the helpful map presented below. Without the map it can be easy to get lost as there are numerous trails, some of which are not marked. None of the caches are near the main buildings. Two of the caches are letterbox hybrids so that geocachers have directions on when and where to turn on the trails. Total distance if following the map to all five of the geocaches is approximately 1.5 miles round trip.
Usually most visitors are requested to check in at the main lodge when walking the grounds (they’re friendly folks), but for those seeking the geocaches here they can go directly to the caches without checking in. Since it is private property please stay on the trails as much as possible.
We hope you enjoy your walk at Cedar Valley!
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