GCR1E1 Elk Creek's Haunted Wayside on the YST (Traditional Cache) in Wisconsin, United States created by zuma!

This cache has been archived.

zuma!: Archiving this one as there seems to be too many muggles here for an ammo can. Will replace with a new cache, new hide, slightly new location.

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Hidden : 10/19/2005

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Size: Size: regular (regular)

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From Eau Claire, the Yellowstone Trail went west to Menomonie on what is now highway E. The bridge across the Elk Creek has recently been removed, and the highway rerouted to the south of the lake (though Mapquest does not know this yet). The highway wayside is now on a neglected dead end, with a fantastic view of the lake, the creek and the Elk Creek Lake Dam. Watch your step here because it is a long way down.

According to a cheesy book, called Wisconsin's Haunted Places, this wayside is said to be haunted by the ghost of "Mary."
People say they see a girl in her 20's wearing a pink angora sweater and white capri pants haunting this wayside. According to the book, there was a Mary who was hitchhiking from Minneapolis to Chicago, whose body was found near here in the 1970s. The crime was never solved.

This is one of several caches I have placed along the route of the historic Yellowstone Trail. The trail is a historic motor route that went across Wisconsin from 1918 to 1930. The Wisconsin portion of the Yellowstone Trail is 406 miles long, starting at the state line south of Kenosha and going north, and then west to Hudson.

The Wisconsin segment is just a part of one of America’s first transcontinental auto routes, a 3,754-mile long road that started in Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts and went to Puget Sound, Washington. More information on the Yellowstone Trail, including maps can be found at
http://www.yellowstonetrail.org/id18.htm