THE CACHE IS NOT AT THE ABOVE COORDINATES
IT IS IN CHESTERFIELD PARK
YOU MUST SOLVE THE PUZZLE TO FIND THE CACHE
On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were all killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson. The event became known as "The Day the Music Died" after singer-songwriter Don McLean referred to it as such in his 1971 song "American Pie".
There is a memorial at the crash site accessible from the trail head next to the Buddy Holly Glasses monument located about five miles north-northwest of the Clear Lake Airport near the intersection of Gull Avenue and 315th St.
Trail Head and Memorial
To Find the cache, you might want to determine the memorial’s coordinates by actually going there and measuring them for yourself. The monument is between 0.5 and 0.6 km west of the Buddy Holly Glasses trailhead marker. Pilgrims, see Additional Waypoints.
Alternatively, you can find the memorial’s coordinates using resources on the web or other information provided on this cache page. All the tools you will ever need for this cache are in https://www.geocachingtoolbox.com/ on the “Coordinates” page.
To find the cache, project a waypoint from the memorial’s coordinates for a distance of 559.290791 km at a true bearing of 154.090625 degrees.
Solution Checker will be happy if N38 dd.dd8, W90 dd.dd4 are the precise cache coordinates.
Have fun.
Permission has been granted to place this cache.
CONGRATULATIONS TO TREASURE ISLE FOR BEING FIRST TO FIND!
The cache is available only during normal Park Hours:
Sunday 7 AM–8:30 PM
Monday 7 AM–8:30 PM
Tuesday 7 AM–8:30 PM
Wednesday 7 AM–8:30 PM
Thursday 7 AM–9:30 PM
Friday 7 AM–9:30 PM
Saturday 7 AM–9:30 PM