This Letterbox Hybrid geocache is NOT hidden at the posted coordinates, although that is where you should start your journey.
This is one of three new caches placed in Rolfs Nature Preserve for the 2025 West Bend $1000 Cache Ba$h. A trail map with a suggested route is shown below to make it easier to get to. Parking is available in the lot located just off of 18th Avenue.
WHAT IS A LETTERBOX HYBRID?
Letterboxing is another outdoor activity in which people follow clues or a story (rather than just coordinates) to find a container and then put their personal stamp in the logbook and then stamp their own journal with the stamp from the cache.
A letterbox hybrid, like this one, is both a geocache and a letterbox. It can include both coordinates and clues to get you to the final location. Follow the instructions in the following paragraphs to be directed to the actual cache location. Contents include a stamp (do not take) for letterboxing, as well as a log book and swag for geocachers and letterboxers.
ROLFS PARK & ROLFS NATURE PRESERVE
Rolfs Park features two parks in one: a 10 acre fenced-in off leash dog park, and the 30 acre Rolfs Nature Preserve (dogs not allowed in the nature preserve). All of the six caches here (3 old, 3 new) are located in the nature preserve, not in the dog park.
YOUR ADVENTURE AWAITS
1. The starting coordinates for this letterbox hybrid adventure are N43 24.395 W88 12.302, as shown on the map. One suggested way to get to the starting coordinates is to go to the 4-way intersection (“A”), followed by the path at the treeline going west into the woods (”B”). We’ve labeled the map with “A” & “B” if you choose to go that way.
There isn’t a cache or waypoint marker to find at the starting coordinates, it’s just the starting reference point as you walk the trails. From this point onward you probably don’t need to enter any coordinates, but they’re presented for those who would like confirmation of the route.
2. You’re at a fork on the trail. The fork goes NW and SW. Take the southwest fork, passing along the way a neat view of the fenced-in area that is part of the amazing dog park. But no dogs allowed in the nature preserve! When you’re about 353 feet from the starting coordinates you’ll reach a Rolfs Nature Preserve sign at N43 24.367 W88 12.372.
3. From the sign take the trail going north about 82 feet to the bench at N43 24.380 W88 12.368. You’re almost there – only 72 feet away from the cache!
4. From the bench, go about 59 feet north on the trail and stop. Look east (right) and head about 25 to 30 feet in that direction. You’ll find the cache at the convergence of a group of nine tree trunks, about a foot above ground. You’re there!
5. OK the tricky part. How to get back to the parking lot without a bunch of bushwhacking. If you head back to the trail and go north, in 176 feet you’ll come to a wood post at N43 24.421 W88 12.369 with a nice wide path on the right that’s relatively easy to walk. Turn right (east) on that path and go about 70 feet to the T-intersection of the even bigger path. Turn right on that wide path and follow it back to the parking lot. We colored it yellow on the trail map shown online on the geocache page. Actually it’s not so tricky!
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