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05/25/2004 at 5:29 pm #1721285
The WGA Board making arrangements for the 2004 Picnic, which is traditional held in August.
We are currently looking for ideas on where to hold the event. Some requirements are:
[*]Spacious park – must have plenty of room and cover for caching
[*]Shelter – Enclosed shelter preferred. Must be large enough for large group of people. Electricity is also preferred.
[*]Location – We try to move the picnics around to different areas of the state. It needs to be most convenient for the larger amount of cachers.
[*]Permission – If a park needs the above needs, we need to obtain permission from the park.We try to move the picnic around so it’s not in the same area. So far we’ve held the picnics at: Pike Lake, Lapham Peak, and Devil’s lake.
If you know of a large park that would suit our needs, please let us know. We have several in mind, but perhaps you know of a park not on our list.
“There are two kinds of hunting: ordinary hunting and grouse hunting.”
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[email protected]05/25/2004 at 6:30 pm #1746993Being near the lake’s natural air conditioning during hot summer days is nice. How about considering Harrington Beach State park? kbraband’s “Lake by a Lake” cache is there, and we really liked that park. According to the DNR’s 2004 development map there are two shelters and a number of trails. The park is over 600 acres in size.
A little farther up the lake is Point Beach State Forest, also right on the lake, and it has even more trails and has two shelters. Point beach also has family camping if folks wanted to stay over night, as well as outdoor and indoor group camping.
05/25/2004 at 7:22 pm #1746994I would second the Harrington Beach Park. We spent some time there pre-geocaching and it is absolutely beautiful with alot of history too. While it looks as if it is rather primitive at this point I do believe there were several trails running through the park. The central lake shelter is not enclosed but the shelter at the NE is, I think. This is also the only are with electricity (I think). There are no flush toilets, either; only well-maintained, new pit toilets. Oh, and the quarry lake is absolutely fantastic with remanants of the mining works still easily visible below the clear blue-green waters. (Sorry, no swimming) This will defintely be a stopping point for us on any travels south this summer anyway and I believe it would make a fantstic GeoPicnic site!
my 2 pennies
later,
Team GeoPink
Co-conspirators to make the world a better place…05/25/2004 at 7:49 pm #1746995That sounds like a nice park. Never been there though. Anyone been over by Governor Dodge S.P.? We have plans to go camping there in a few weeks..it’s a beautiful part of the state and they do have shelters there.
05/25/2004 at 8:05 pm #1746996Gov Dodge is a Beautiful park, and one of my favorites. It was the location of the 1st WGA Geo-campout.
Harrington Beach has a lot of swamp land from what I remember. Lots of delicate plants off the trails. It’s a nice park though
05/25/2004 at 11:08 pm #1746997One of my favorites is Wyalusing S.P. The only negative is location, as it is in the far S.W. corner of the state. Still, it’s a great park that meets all our needs. How centralized do we want to stay?
Bob05/26/2004 at 12:10 am #1746998Our two suggestions are Mirror Lake and Lake Kegonsa. We have never been to Lake Kegonsa, but it looks like it has what we need, but it is kind of small. Mirror lake we have been to and is very nice.
05/26/2004 at 12:19 am #1746999The only thing I could think of was the Reforestation Camp/NEW Zoo near Green Bay WI. It is a 1600 acre park.
It is a zoo on one end and they have several miles of hiking trails on the other. (There is a current cache stashed here).
They have several shelters for rent also. They do include electricity, stove and fridge as well as being heated.
The website is: http://www.co.brown.wi.us/parks/reforestation-camp/index.shtmlI’m not sure if its central enough or not, or if the shelters are available for the date you’re looking at, but I thought I’d throw the idea out to you all.
AstroD-Team
05/26/2004 at 1:50 am #1747000Just out of curiousity – is there a specific date being looked at yet? Amy and I really want to come but we’re pretty tight on summer weekends right now… (and I just bought a better pancake flipper…)
As far as locations… Buckhorn State Park is a centralized location with a variety of terrain available. Located on a peninsula on Castle Rock Lake (4th largest lake in Wisconsin…)
Perhaps the Kettle Moraine?
I love the idea of Wyalusing! The confluence of the Wisconsin and the Mississippi? That’s “Mecca” for paddlers!
Another idea is the Flambeau River State Forest. Talk about a slice of heaven… but a long drive if you’re coming from Milwaukee…
So many places – so many ideas. Any help on the date would be much appreciated!
Jeff
05/26/2004 at 2:01 am #1747001We are looking at the middle of August for dates. The exact date will depend on many factors such as schedules of organizers, shelter availability, and even driving distance.
05/26/2004 at 2:03 am #1747002We’ll throw in our $.02 worth
If we didn’t have problems with the popularity of the park, Penninsula would be a wonderful place to go! It has the lake nearby. 3800 acres
There are also the Kettle Moraines to consider. Northern is 30,000, and Southern is 20,000 acres–Ottawa is a nice area. Could those be too big?
I guess like the Paddlers, we too are looking for a date to secure on our calendars. Somehow dates fill up fast for us in the summer. Any ideas for that?
06/01/2004 at 3:09 am #1747003I too, would like to see the event at Buckhorn or Mirror Lake. I’d also like to get together with others & make a group camp of the weekend.
06/01/2004 at 3:34 am #1747004quote:
Originally posted by Cathunter:
I too, would like to see the event at Buckhorn or Mirror Lake. I’d also like to get together with others & make a group camp of the weekend.
OOooo… I could see us getting into the group camp idea!
later,
Team GeoPink
Co-conspirators to make the world a better place…06/02/2004 at 10:15 pm #1747005I’ve never been to any of these places they all sound like great places to visit and do some caching.
I have to agree with my fellow geocachers though – I would like to know the dates as I have two weekends in August already booked.
Keep us posted!
AstroD-Team
06/03/2004 at 3:28 am #1747006We hear your requests to know the date of the picnic. Board members are diligently working on the issue — trying to line up both a locaction and a date that will work for said location. Thanks for your patience, and stay tuned.
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