This cache is NOT a challenge.
Having said that, I miss the old challenges. I miss having goals to direct our finds, no matter how weird they are. Alas, Groundspeak has spoken.
You are welcome to find and sign the log at any time. If you'd like to play along, however, feel free to prove you have found 100 caches with the word ROAD in their title. You may use this cache. You may use plurals. You may use Rd if it clearly means Road. You may choose not to do this at all, which is fine.
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One of the oldest roads in the state, Fort Road was originally built by the federal government after Fort Ridgely was completed in 1853-54. Supplies were shipped from Fort Snelling to Traverse des Sioux, then transported by wagon to Fort Ridgely.
Nicollet County Road 5 runs more than 42 miles from its eastern terminus at its intersection with US Highway 169 in St Peter to the Renville County line. Old Fort Road presumably extended from Traverse des Sioux, although the portion running through the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College has been blocked off. Fort Road as an address runs from the western edge of St Peter to the end of CR-5.
In an ideal world, a paved trail would have been installed when the road was refurbished in the early 2010s. This planned geocache trail will have to suffice, but won’t alleviate my anxiety when biking here.