One of my favorite places in Minnesota is the Louisville Swamp, a unit of the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Louisville Swamp is one of the largest and most diverse sections in this whole refuge. The refuge has many different trails (long and short) and is great for birding, hiking, and snowshoeing, and it's unlikely you'll encounter many other people while exploring.
The Louisville Swamp is also the home of an immense glacial erratic known as the Louisville Swamp Boulder. As you know, a glacial erratic is a glacially deposited rock differing from the type of rock native to the area in which it rests. Erratics, which take their name from the Latin word errare (to wander), are carried by glacial ice, often over distances of hundreds of miles. Erratics can range in size from pebbles to large boulders, such as this one in the Louisville Swamp. This big granite rock, a gray and black bulk, larger than a city bus and approximately the same shape, sits out in the open along the trail.
To get credit for this virtual cache, please take a photo of yourself (or a personal item) with the Louisville Swamp’s Wanderer - and upload photo to your Found It log.
Apologies in advance, if you do not post a picture proving you were there, I will have to delete your log.
Virtual Rewards 4.0 - 2024-2025
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between January 17, 2024 and January 17, 2025. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards 4.0 on the Geocaching Blog.