Geocache Description:
Welcome to our winter series for 2024-25 which will take you on a tour of the Upper Peninsula. Be sure to collect all the codes along the way as you will need them to help find the bonus geocache location. The geocaches are guaranteed to be available through Easter Sunday April 20.. Have fun and enjoy!
Ontonagon County is part of Copper Country, a region of the Upper Peninsula with prevalent copper mining from 1845 until the late 1960s. Prehistoric mining was conducted by local Native American populations. The first attempts by Europeans to mine copper in the area came in 1771 in the Ontonagon River.
The Ontonagan Copper Boulder was removed from the west branch of the Ontonagon River and transported in 1842 to Detroit where it was weighed at 3708 pounds, thence to the Smithsonian Institution.[9] The last copper mine in Copper Country was the White Pine mine, which closed in 1995.[10]
The county is named after the Ontonagon River. The name is said to be loosely derived from an Ojibwe language word noojitoon ziibi, meaning "hunting river."[1] A French transliteration, Nantounagon, identified the river on a 1670 French map. Alternatively, and perhaps more accurately, it is said to be derived from the Ojibwa onagon, which means "dish" or "bowl."
Now onto the Letterbox hybrid
Begin your journey at the posted coordinates.
Head to the sidewalk by the large green electrical box.
Head in a southernly direction as you count 7 trees growing between the sidewalk and the road.
Stop when you reach an intersection marked with an 8 sided red sign with a white 4 letter word on it.
From there, turn LEFT, look both ways for traffic and cross the road.
Keep going Eastward until you get to another intersecting road. From this corner if you look diagonally across the intersection to the SE you should see a white metal box with a door/window and colorful lights inside.
Choose your path carefully, watching out for traffic as you cross over to the SE corner of the intersection.
Once you have reached the white metal box, pull open the door by the handle, (You may have to give it a good tug)
Feel free to browse and take somthing or leave something, but don't stay too long, you have more caches to find!
Please leave the stamp inside the letterbox cache container.