RiverExplorer: Well folks, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this one's back "Over the river, and through with - for good". Seems the good folks at the IDNR want all the Turkey Run caches removed. I spoke to a very nice Ranger lady today at the Nature Center, who informed me that everything on the North side of Sugar Creek is a nature preserve, and the new IDNR geocaching policy prohibits caches in these areas, and that they were in the process of removing all caches.
She was nice enough to give me a copy of the policy, and an application for a permit to place one on the South side of Sugar Creek if I wished. She also showed me 3 geocaches that had been picked up by rangers as they rid the park of existing caches, asking if one of them was mine. Unfortunately, mine wasn't among them, so she encouraged me to go remove it for her. I headed out by kayak to comply, only to find it was gone already. I don't yet know if that's because another Ranger has picked it up, but not turned it in yet, or if it's gone missing, but nevertheless, it is gone, and can't be replaced here. She did say that they would attempt to contact the cache owners, and give them 30 days to pick up their containers. I believe the caches she had at the Nature Center were "Dean and Jerry", "Let's Try This Again" and "Pawpaw Cache"
So, it looks like Indiana's premier park is no longer the cache heaven that we enjoyed for a while. Bummer. I'll post pictures of where the cache was, for posterity. A sad day for geocaching!
Sorry,
RiverExplorer