Lost & Found on the Central Lakes Trail Series LbNA #44139 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Oct 21, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Fergus Falls |
| County: | Otter Tail |
| State: | Minnesota |
| Boxes: | 5 |
| Planted by: | The Happy Wanderer  |
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| Found by: | Dartmoor Dreamer (5) |
| Last found: | Aug 21, 2009 |
| Status: | FFFF |
| Last edited: | Oct 21, 2008 |
“Lost and Found on the Central Lakes Trail Series” (5 boxes) (NOTE: 2 BOXES OF THIS SERIES ARE MISSING AS OF 2012, AND DETAILS ARE NOTED BELOW.)
You'll want to bring along your colored markers for this series--orange, red, grey, blue, and green.
If you ride to the location of the last box in the series (and back to the start), you'll have ridden 8 miles.
The Central Lakes Trail was built on the former Burlington Northern railbed, purchased by the state of Minnesota in 1992. Twelve years and 3.2 million dollars later, the trail was dedicated in August, 2005, and ran between Fergus Falls and Osakis. Later, in August of 2007, with a "Driving of the Green Spike" ceremony, it was connected to the Lake Wobegon Trail at Osakis.
Our search begins at the Trailhead at DeLagoon Park in Fergus Falls. Follow the trail from the parking area, and Where the gravel approach meets the blacktopped trail, turn right, towards Dalton.
Let’s imagine for a while how it was when trains ran along this roadbed. They’ve long disappeared, but you can find one of the “lost” trains in “The Orange Train” letterbox. As you head toward Dalton, watch for a sign on the left side of the trail that announces the Pebble Lake Swimming Beach. Behind this sign you’ll find a large boulder, and at one o’clock behind the boulder as you face it from the trail, is your first box in the series. Please be sure to re-hide the box carefully in the same place.
Now let’s suppose one of the train passengers got off here with his bike and decided to ride awhile. He kept on going away from Fergus Falls, and rode on until he found a sign on his right marking the Continental Divide. Here he stopped for a bit to rest, laid his bike down close to the trail, looked around a bit, and suddenly discovered he’d lost his “Red Bike”. Can you find it? Face the sign and move to your left until the sign is centered in the sky between the two tallest trees behind the sign. Look down. About 5 feet off the trail, under about 2 inches of river rock, is the box. Please rehide as you found it. (NOTE: THIS BOX IS MISSING--WATCH FOR FURTHER NEWS.)
Our traveler continues without his bike, but he has good hiking shoes. He crosses the highway and walks on, eventually coming to a stop sign on the trail where it crosses a gravel road. He thinks this would be a good place to find a bench to rest a while, but has to continue a bit more on the trail until finally finding a creamy white bench next to an evergreen. Perfect! He takes off his shoes and of course, loses one. You’ll find his “Grey Shoe” right at the base of the tree under some rocks. Please remember to replace the rocks. (NOTE: THE BENCH IS NOW MISSING! wATCH FOR THE FIRST LARGE EVERGREEN AFTER THE GRAVEL ROAD, ON THE RIGHT SIDE, ABOUT 6 FEET OFF THE TRAIL.)
Not really able to make good time with only one shoe, our friend switches to his in-line skates, conveniently stored in his backpack. Ah, now he can make good time. However, at mile marker 181, he thinks he has a stone in one of his skates, so he takes it off to empty it out, sitting right by the marker. However, careless fellow that he is, he lays his “Blue Skate” down for a few minutes, and of course, can’t find it again. You can help, if you look under the limestone rock right behind the mile marker. Please be sure the stone holds the box safely when you leave.
Tired and yet determined to take his “Green Spike” on to its destination at the linking of the Central Lakes and Lake Wobegon Trails at Osakis, he moves on. It’s hard going for him, though, and somewhere between mile markers 181 and 180, he has to give up. Not even strength enough left to carry his burden any further. He wants to be able to retrieve it later, though, so he notes a special mark on the trail in the right lane, a newer patch job of blacktop about 2' x 8' or 10'long.) He turns around here and walks back toward Fergus Falls about 20 paces, finds a larger, lone, weepy kind of tree on his right side now, and hangs the “Green Spike” on the back side of the closest trunk to the trail. Please disguise this box with dried grass, leaves, or whatever, to keep it hidden for the next seeker—who knows?—maybe our friend from the train! (NOTE: THIS BOX IS ALSO MISSING--WATCH FOR FURTHER NEWS.)
You may go further from here, or turn back, but at any rate, you can find a bonus box on the way back. As you return to DeLagoon Park, just past the Pebble Lake Swimming Beach sign, where you found “The Orange Train”, keep going on around the long curve, and watch for where the blacktop widens just a bit on each side of the trail. Go on 27 more steps and find a large boulder off the trail on your left, and down the slope. Just in front of this boulder, under the roots clump of a fallen tree, you’ll find “Der Wandersmann”, (“The Hiker” in English)—perhaps our friend from the train?? Please recover with debris.
You'll want to bring along your colored markers for this series--orange, red, grey, blue, and green.
If you ride to the location of the last box in the series (and back to the start), you'll have ridden 8 miles.
The Central Lakes Trail was built on the former Burlington Northern railbed, purchased by the state of Minnesota in 1992. Twelve years and 3.2 million dollars later, the trail was dedicated in August, 2005, and ran between Fergus Falls and Osakis. Later, in August of 2007, with a "Driving of the Green Spike" ceremony, it was connected to the Lake Wobegon Trail at Osakis.
Our search begins at the Trailhead at DeLagoon Park in Fergus Falls. Follow the trail from the parking area, and Where the gravel approach meets the blacktopped trail, turn right, towards Dalton.
Let’s imagine for a while how it was when trains ran along this roadbed. They’ve long disappeared, but you can find one of the “lost” trains in “The Orange Train” letterbox. As you head toward Dalton, watch for a sign on the left side of the trail that announces the Pebble Lake Swimming Beach. Behind this sign you’ll find a large boulder, and at one o’clock behind the boulder as you face it from the trail, is your first box in the series. Please be sure to re-hide the box carefully in the same place.
Now let’s suppose one of the train passengers got off here with his bike and decided to ride awhile. He kept on going away from Fergus Falls, and rode on until he found a sign on his right marking the Continental Divide. Here he stopped for a bit to rest, laid his bike down close to the trail, looked around a bit, and suddenly discovered he’d lost his “Red Bike”. Can you find it? Face the sign and move to your left until the sign is centered in the sky between the two tallest trees behind the sign. Look down. About 5 feet off the trail, under about 2 inches of river rock, is the box. Please rehide as you found it. (NOTE: THIS BOX IS MISSING--WATCH FOR FURTHER NEWS.)
Our traveler continues without his bike, but he has good hiking shoes. He crosses the highway and walks on, eventually coming to a stop sign on the trail where it crosses a gravel road. He thinks this would be a good place to find a bench to rest a while, but has to continue a bit more on the trail until finally finding a creamy white bench next to an evergreen. Perfect! He takes off his shoes and of course, loses one. You’ll find his “Grey Shoe” right at the base of the tree under some rocks. Please remember to replace the rocks. (NOTE: THE BENCH IS NOW MISSING! wATCH FOR THE FIRST LARGE EVERGREEN AFTER THE GRAVEL ROAD, ON THE RIGHT SIDE, ABOUT 6 FEET OFF THE TRAIL.)
Not really able to make good time with only one shoe, our friend switches to his in-line skates, conveniently stored in his backpack. Ah, now he can make good time. However, at mile marker 181, he thinks he has a stone in one of his skates, so he takes it off to empty it out, sitting right by the marker. However, careless fellow that he is, he lays his “Blue Skate” down for a few minutes, and of course, can’t find it again. You can help, if you look under the limestone rock right behind the mile marker. Please be sure the stone holds the box safely when you leave.
Tired and yet determined to take his “Green Spike” on to its destination at the linking of the Central Lakes and Lake Wobegon Trails at Osakis, he moves on. It’s hard going for him, though, and somewhere between mile markers 181 and 180, he has to give up. Not even strength enough left to carry his burden any further. He wants to be able to retrieve it later, though, so he notes a special mark on the trail in the right lane, a newer patch job of blacktop about 2' x 8' or 10'long.) He turns around here and walks back toward Fergus Falls about 20 paces, finds a larger, lone, weepy kind of tree on his right side now, and hangs the “Green Spike” on the back side of the closest trunk to the trail. Please disguise this box with dried grass, leaves, or whatever, to keep it hidden for the next seeker—who knows?—maybe our friend from the train! (NOTE: THIS BOX IS ALSO MISSING--WATCH FOR FURTHER NEWS.)
You may go further from here, or turn back, but at any rate, you can find a bonus box on the way back. As you return to DeLagoon Park, just past the Pebble Lake Swimming Beach sign, where you found “The Orange Train”, keep going on around the long curve, and watch for where the blacktop widens just a bit on each side of the trail. Go on 27 more steps and find a large boulder off the trail on your left, and down the slope. Just in front of this boulder, under the roots clump of a fallen tree, you’ll find “Der Wandersmann”, (“The Hiker” in English)—perhaps our friend from the train?? Please recover with debris.