Oshkosh's Kurt Graf Bridge on Yellowstone Trail Multi-cache
Oshkosh's Kurt Graf Bridge on Yellowstone Trail
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This historic multi will take you along the Yellowstone Trail in Oshkosh, going from north to south. From the Edgar Sawyer house, continue south on Algoma Blvd to Main Street. From the Fire Station, stay on Main street, and the route of the Yellowstone follows what is now highway 45 until it turns south on 175 towards Fon Du Lac.
The first stop is the Edgar Sawyer mansion and the historical plauque that describes the home. The mansion is now used as the home of the Oshkosh Museum, but you do not need to go inside the museum or mansion to gather the information for the clues. Many of the galleries of the Oshkosh Public Museum are located in an English Tudor Revival residence built for Edgar P. Sawyer, a lumber baron, banker, and businessman. The home features a gabled roof, fluted chimneys, Bedford stone carriage port, and an elevator. You can visit the grounds of the museum anytime, see the architecture and grab the clues for the final.
The second waypoint is in downtown Oshkosh at a wonderful restored fire station, now used as a wine distributor. It is now private property, but you can get all the information for the clues from the sidewalk, so there is no need to enter the building here either.
The cache is located at the third and final waypoint, the Kurt Graf bridge. The Kurt Graf bridge was the bridge that the Yellowstone Trail used to cross the river here. It has been replaced by the nearby highway bridge for highway 45. The bridge is very interesting to see, and is still structurally sound. The bridge provides a driveway entrance to private property, but the bridge itself remains on public property, and is easily accessed. There is no need to venture into private property here.
To find the cache visit the first 2 waypoints, and then find the cache at:
43.58.ABC
88.31.DEF
A = The number of garage doors for fire trucks at the fire station, minus 2
B = The number of ampersands in the signage on the original fire station
C = The second digit of the year that the Edgar Sawyer house was designed
D = 6
E = the third digit of the year that the Edgar Sawyer house was designed
F = The number of the fire station, from the original signage
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
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BONUS VIRITUAL FOR TECHIES: It is possible to skip a physical visit to one of the first waypoints. If you can discover this shortcut, email me your find, and you can claim a bonus find here.
Additional Hints
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jurrypunve npprffvoyr