Turn Where ? Was -- The End of the Watterson Traditional Cache
TeamArgo: The area had gotten a bit grown up and weedy. Pioson ivy is moving into the area, too. Because of this, I have decided to terminate this cache.
Turn Where ? Was -- The End of the Watterson
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An urban cache, in a "mini" container that has a small log book and pencil. Be prepared; Urban means it will be busy in the area. Wait for a break in the local activity, or just act like you own the place and few people will bother even noticing you. I'll keep an eye on this one, so if it happens to be taken by a Geo-Muggle, I'll replace it quickly. It is not in plain site, but easy to gain access to.
In February 2002, the LEO newspaper published a list of things a person might say or do that would brand them as being from Louisville. Readers sent in the items, and a recurring theme was "giving directions based on things that aren't there anymore or names that have changed, but your directions never confuse any of the other Louisvillians (Example: "Turn where the White Castle was on Eastern Parkway; down the street from the old Sears; take the Jefferson Freeway, etc.)". This is the fourth in a series of caches located at such directional landmarks that aren't there.
First off, DO NOT approach this cache from the expressway itself. Not only would this be dangerous, but you also can't even get to it from that direction. There is another way.
When the Watterson Expressway was completed in the early to mid 1950's, it ran from Dixie Highway at its west end to Highway 22/42 at the northeast end. Both ends were designed to be extended as needed, and both have since been extended past those original ends.
The Dixie Highway end was always called by its correct name in my family, but the northeast end was always called "Where the Watterson ends". After the highway was extended to I-71, the description of the intersection near this cache was lengthened to "Where the Watterson used to end".
Picture, if you will, the ramps still in place where they are now, but instead of an underpass beneath US42, there is a sheer blasted limestone cliff just to the south of Highway 42. That wall used to face you as you approached the end of the Watterson. I remember quite well seeing it as a kid, and trying to imagine what it would look like if the Watterson was ever extended past that point. At the time, I couldn't believe it might ever happen, because it just didn't seem like there was anyplace further in that direction that anyone might ever want to go to!
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