Roche-A-Cri State Park, established in 1948, includes a 605-acre
park area. Roche-A-Cri comes from French words meaning "crevice in
the rock." The park has a 300-foot-high rock outcropping with a
wooden stairway to the top. There are Native American petroglyphs
and pictographs.
Please note that the stairs to the top of the mound have been
closed and deemed unsafe - RAC does plan to replace the stairs but
it will not be in time for the picnic.
Geocaches in the area: There are 22 currently published
caches within the park (with more possible as the date draws near)
as well as > 120 currently published caches within 15 miles of
Roche-a-Cri State Park. These include Virtual Caches, EarthCaches,
Letterbox Hybrids, Traditional caches, Multi Caches and
Puzzle/Mystery Caches. There are also 8 Benchmarks that have been
"found" as well as 9 "unrecovered" Benchmarks within approximately
5 miles of the park. Along with the Event Cache ,the Pre-Picnic
CITO Event and WhereIGo, this may allow you to have a "very busy
day".
Please consider joining us before the picnic at the Pre-picnic CITO
event sponsored by the WGA at Burt Morris Park in the City of Adams
from 8am - 10am:
Pre-picnic CITO Event Page. We'll have coffee & donuts
available for breakfast and cleanup the park before heading over to
the picnic.
Event Schedule
| Check
In/Registration |
8:30
– 11:30 AM |
| Nametag
Pickup |
8:30
-11:30 AM |
| T-shirt /
Geocoin Sales |
8:30 – 11:30AM
|
| TB/Geocoin
exchange |
All Day
|
| GeoGolf
Contest |
10:30 – 4:00PM
|
| Lunch /
Grills Ready |
12:00 PM
|
| Kids
Activities |
1:30 – 3:30 PM
|
| Turn in
Bingo cards and GeoGolf slips by |
4:00
PM |
| Group
Picture |
4:30
PM |
| Bingo
Drawing / Attendance Raffle |
4:40
PM |
| Grills
Ready Round 2 |
5:00 -
6:00 PM |
What To Bring To The Picnic
- Your own meat to grill
- Table setting for you and your family (or guests)
- Lawn chairs in case we run out of table space
- Beverages for your group
- A food item to pass. Because everyone will be bringing
food,
please don't bring a large amount (enough to serve your group
is
sufficient) as we want to minimize leftovers.
To ensure variety, please bring an
item
based on your last name, as shown below:
- Last name A-H: dessert or
cookies
- Last name I-P: salad,
fruit, and/or vegetables
- Last name Q-Z: chips,
pretzels, and/or snacks
Children's Activities
- Arts & Crafts
- Nature Scavenger Hunt
- Kid's Cache
Geocacher Social Bingo
Learn a little bit about your fellow
geocachers while playing a fun game of BINGO.
We will be drawing for a special prize from the "blacked out" cards
and more from the cards turned in with at least one bingo.
Tickets will be handed out when you turn in your card. Be sure
to write your name and contact information as this drawing will not
require you to be present to win
GeoGolf
Pick a point somewhere in the park
and write down those coordinates. The three closest to the "Pin"
will receive WGA prizes!
1st place: WGA 2010 Geocoin and a gas card
2nd place: WGA "Cachin' Wisconsin" T-shirt
3rd place: WGA 2010 Geopicnic T-shirt
Must be present to claim your prize
Attendance Raffle
We will be holding a door prize
raffle following the Group Picture at 4:30
For this drawing, you
must be present to win. We have secured many great geocaching
items from the following Vendors, Businesses and Cachers:
CacheAdvance, Cache Addict, Landsharkz, hotdogs_off_trail,
Wal-Mart, Spacecoastgeocachers, -cheeto-, Geolivestrong, labrat_wr,
CoinsAndPins, 2nd time around, Team Black Cat and CH Quality
Coins
Check back to see what else we are doing at the picnic as the
activities are finalized.
Please post your "Will Attend" note on the cache page
also include on your note:
- number attending
- what you are bringing
- nametag requests (team name/team member name)
You will be required to have a State Parks sticker to park within
the Roche-a-Cri Park. Daily and Annual Stickers are available at
any DNR service station or State Park office.
Late season camping at Roche-a-Cri is on a first come first
serve system. No reservations are available. RAC rangers have
offered to open the second loop of campsites for us if needed
raising the available site number from 25 to 41 sites. Hopefully
there will not be a shortage of space.