Travel to North Park and the Latadomi Nature Center. This is off of Brown Road in the western portion of the park. Park your car next to the nature barn and choose the "North" (bluebird symbol) trail as your means to get close to the cache. You will not be on the trail when you locate the cache. A pleasant area within which to hike, Latadomi offers wetlands, fields, and woods as well as hilly and some flat terrain. You will see many bluebird boxes along the trail.
Up on a hill
there is a mill
There are no arms
but don't let that
be an alarm
Phil would see it,
and really get a thrill
North Park was dedicated on June 18, 1927. Many of the infrastructure and improvements made to the park were the results of the efforts by men working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the depression. There are several geocaches in the park that tell the history of North Park.
Abe and Nancys’ Place (GCHXA5) Game reserve 1927-1931. The fence post remains adjacent to the cemetery are from the game preserve fencing used for buffalo whose caretakers were Blackfoot Indians from Montana. The game reserve encompassed the area between Walter Road, Pearce Mill Road, and Lakeshore Drive.
Sherman's Plunder (GC1KGNK) archived Civilian Conservation Corps camp 1933-1935
Go with the Flow, H20 (GC5459) archived Filtration Plant 1935 FEA PW
That 70’s Cache (GC21QY7) Standpipe and Lodge 1937 FEA PW
Looking Down at the North Star (GCGP6C) Tree Planting 1937 WPA. Formation of a five-point one acre star with 590 pine trees
It was an Island-North Park Lake Cache (GC10CAF) Bird Sanctuary 1937 WPA
Go with the Flow, H10 (GC5457) Fountain of Youth 1938. Construction of a spring house designed as a grotto typical in every detail of a Roman cavern
Monkey Man/Old North Park Groves: Camp Hemlock (GC5FM0F) archived One of three overnight shelters for underprivileged children 1939
Just Hanging Out (GC1N2T3) Arboretum 1941 WPA
No more Pencils, No more books (GC2R619) Site of Walters one room school house 1941 WPA
Old North Park Groves: Camp Irwin (GC64RQ7) One of three overnight shelters for underprivileged children 1939
Who’d Picnic Here (GCH22A) Nike missile site 1954-1964. Fencing and no trespassing signs are left over from when the area along West Ridge Road was a Nike missile site.
Please visit the North Park History page for more information and pictures.