Lakeview Park at Elysian LbNA #41552 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jun 29, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Janesville |
| County: | Waseca |
| State: | Minnesota |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | running horse  |
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| Found by: | The Gamer Ruettens |
| Last found: | Aug 11, 2008 |
| Status: | F |
| Last edited: | Jun 29, 2008 |
Lakeview Park at Elysian Letterbox
Placed June 29, 2008
This letterbox is located at Lakeview Park about 1/2 mile north of the city limits of Janesville, Minnesota. From the one 4-way stop in the center of town, drive north on Main St. almost 2 miles to where the street ends at Lake Elysian. Straight ahead of you will be the entrance to one of the parking lots at Lakeview Park. You can park your vehicle there.
Walk through the nearby picnic pavilion towards a small playground area. On your left will be a large hill that is famous for sledding in the winter, rolling down in the summer, and watching fireworks during Janesville’s annual Hay Daze in June. Walk past the playground area to the fishing pier and enjoy a scenic view of the southern end of Lake Elysian. It is common to see pelicans on the lake during the summer months.
If you stand with your back to the front of the wooden fishing pier sign, you’ll be looking at two baseball fields. Follow the outfield fence line of the field on your right. About 2/3 of the way down the fence line, there will be a small wooded area on your right.
Stop when you get to the 6th fence post to the end. Stand with your back against this fence post and walk 25 steps straight ahead. Look about 20 feet into the wooded area (still on your right) for a strange-looking hardwood tree (might be a hickory) that has 3 trunks (used to have 5 but 2 have been trimmed).
Make your way carefully through the brush (we didn’t see any poison ivy) and find the letterbox (a water bottle with camouflaged tape around it) in a hollowed out knot hole at the back of the tree.
Once you have re-hidden the letterbox, you might want to walk down the nearby road toward the lake, veer to the left when it ends, and check out the small dam that helps control the lake level. In mid-summer, you can watch carp and other fish try to catapult themselves over the waterfall caused by the dam.
Before leaving the park, you might also want to hike (or drive on the road) to the top of the sledding hill you saw earlier. There are several white-tailed deer and an emu living inside large fenced areas there. The emu makes an interesting drumming sound as it struts by.
Placed June 29, 2008
This letterbox is located at Lakeview Park about 1/2 mile north of the city limits of Janesville, Minnesota. From the one 4-way stop in the center of town, drive north on Main St. almost 2 miles to where the street ends at Lake Elysian. Straight ahead of you will be the entrance to one of the parking lots at Lakeview Park. You can park your vehicle there.
Walk through the nearby picnic pavilion towards a small playground area. On your left will be a large hill that is famous for sledding in the winter, rolling down in the summer, and watching fireworks during Janesville’s annual Hay Daze in June. Walk past the playground area to the fishing pier and enjoy a scenic view of the southern end of Lake Elysian. It is common to see pelicans on the lake during the summer months.
If you stand with your back to the front of the wooden fishing pier sign, you’ll be looking at two baseball fields. Follow the outfield fence line of the field on your right. About 2/3 of the way down the fence line, there will be a small wooded area on your right.
Stop when you get to the 6th fence post to the end. Stand with your back against this fence post and walk 25 steps straight ahead. Look about 20 feet into the wooded area (still on your right) for a strange-looking hardwood tree (might be a hickory) that has 3 trunks (used to have 5 but 2 have been trimmed).
Make your way carefully through the brush (we didn’t see any poison ivy) and find the letterbox (a water bottle with camouflaged tape around it) in a hollowed out knot hole at the back of the tree.
Once you have re-hidden the letterbox, you might want to walk down the nearby road toward the lake, veer to the left when it ends, and check out the small dam that helps control the lake level. In mid-summer, you can watch carp and other fish try to catapult themselves over the waterfall caused by the dam.
Before leaving the park, you might also want to hike (or drive on the road) to the top of the sledding hill you saw earlier. There are several white-tailed deer and an emu living inside large fenced areas there. The emu makes an interesting drumming sound as it struts by.