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This cache is a little less than half the size of a typical ammo
box cache, so bring smaller items to trade.
My placement trip was my first trip to this park. One of the
best things about geocaching is that both hiding & seeking a
cache brings you to areas you wouldn't normally go to. This is
particularly true when hiding a cache, as you have to find a park
that doesn't have a cache nearby!
There is a surprisingly nice network of trails for a park this
small. The trails are mostly wide and well maintained, and are
perfect for small children. The hike to the cache is fairly short,
so please stay and hike the other trails, and visit the
arboretum.
Enjoy!
A more thorough description of the park and trails is below,
copied from
footprintpress.com;
it is included here for convenience of printing. There is nothing
below that will give away the location of the cache.
Webster Arboretum is a 32-acre segment of the 84.5-acre Kent
Park. Gardener Elizabeth Sykes and local garden clubs had long
envisioned a unique garden of natural beauty, which would draw
people for leisure, educational, and cultural activities. Finally,
during the 150th year town celebrations, Webster supervisor Adrian
Stanton had the arboretum land set aside, and Parks Director Donna
Fauth was assigned to develop the park. George Turner, chairman of
the Webster Conservation Board recruited Elmer Smith, Mike Kopicki,
and Dick Finicchia to work on the arboretum design.
Elizabeth’s 20-year dream is being brought to reality through
private donations coordinated by the Webster Arboretum Association,
Inc., a not-for-profit charitable organization. Upon leaving the
parking area, the first thing a visitor notices are the gardens.
Volunteers from the five Webster Garden Clubs have built the Smith
Rose Garden and a series of perennial gardens. They're designed to
attract humming birds, butterflies, and the awe of human visitors
with splashes of brilliant color.
Next to the gardens sits the Norman R. Curry building with a
multi-purpose room and restrooms. According to Webster's
dictionary, an arboretum is a place where many kinds of trees and
shrubs are grown for exhibition and study. Beyond the gardens of
the Webster Arboretum, a trail leads past a pond, into the trees
and shrubs available for your study.
The wide trails are marked with color coded signs so you'll be
able to wander and enjoy the sights and sounds of nature with peace
of mind. Benches are found periodically along the trail, inviting
you to sit and savor your surroundings.
The trails are labeled as:
Red: Old Apple Trail
Blue: Judge Trail
Yellow: Bird Trail
White: Arbor Trail
Purple: Sumac Trail
Green: Kodiak Trail
Grey: Eagle Scout Trail
Trail Directions
• From the parking area, stroll through the rose garden and head
straight back (N) toward an information shelter and sign “Arboretum
Trails.”
• Pass the information shelter and continue straight on the white
Arbor Trail.
• Pass the red Old Apple Trail to the right and continue straight.
(The trail will be lined by a rail fence. Notice the old apple
trees around you.)
• At the intersection the purple Sumac Trail will be to the right
and an unmarked trail to the left. Continue straight on the white
trail.
• At 0.4 mile the yellow Bird Trail will head off to the right,
bear left (NW) staying on the white trail.
• Enter deep woods and the grass trail will turn to dirt.
• At 0.5 mile, cross a small wooden bridge over the creek.
• Bear right (NE) after the bridge.
• Turn right onto the blue Judge Trail (The beige trail straight
ahead leads to the playing fields.)
• The trail bed will return to mowed grass.
• Emerge from the woods and you'll see soccer fields to your left.
Bear right to re-enter the woods.
• Cross a small wooden bridge at 0.7 mile.
• Just after the bridge you'll reach a “T” with a yellow trail to
the right. Turn left (S) on the blue trail.
• Pass through an open shrub area.
• At the next “T,” turn right (SW) on the purple Sumac Trail. (Left
goes to the playing fields.)
• Pass through a sumac thicket.
• At 0.8 mile, turn left (S) on the green Kodiak Trail. (To the
right is the purple trail.)
• Bear right to stay on the green trail at the next junction. (Left
is the grey Eagle Scout Trail back to the garden area.)
• Watch carefully for a left turn to stay on the Kodiak Trail.
(Straight leads through an old apple orchard on the non-distinct
Old Apple Trail.)
• Cross a small wooden bridge.
• Continue straight across mowed grass. The pond will be to your
right.
• Cross through the rose garden to return to the parking area.