Caching On Wisconsin Shore of Lake Pepin

[EagleXplore]

I noticed that no caching is allowed near the confluence of the Chippewa River with the Mississippi River. Does that also include virtual caching from a canoe, kayak or jon boat on the lower Chippewa and its backwater sloughs? What about the back water sloughs at the head of Lake Pepin above Bay City nearer to Red Wing’s airport which is located on a Wisconsin side prairie?

What is your best guestimate as to caching along the Wisconsin shores of Lake Pepin (cache access accessible only by watercraft) as long as the cache is at least 150′ from the RR tracks?

Also, can a Minnesota resident place caches in Wisconsin if they have roots in Wisconsin?

[This message has been edited by EagleXplore (edited 01-29-2005).]

[Cathunter]

The WGA does not decide where caches can or cannot be placed. Some of the areas you refer to may be NPS lands or DNR SNA’s. You should e-mail a WI approver with actual coordinates you wish to place a cache. He can better answer your question.

If caching is banned on these lands, this would include virtual caches. As a matter of policy, new virtual caches are no longer being approved regardless.

As for you placing a cache, there are no state boundry rules regarding who can place a cache where. As long as you have received permission from the land manager to place the cache, and it is agreed that you will conduct necessary cache maintenance on a regular basis, your “roots” are of no matter to geocaching.com.

I recommend you spend some time reading-

WI Approver- http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=0bc62ba5-e6d6-4d09-ab66-c54aa4d62202
http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx
http://www.geocaching.com/about/hiding.aspx
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/er/sna/bycountylist.htm
http://wi-geocaching.com/hide.html

What I recommend you do right now is go out and find a hundred or so caches to get your feet wet and cause you to re-think what may or may not be a “great cache”.

[Buy_The_Tie]

Hello,

I am one of the geocaching.com reviewers for Wisconsin. Please contact me at my reviewer’s E-mail address, and include the co-ords (roughly) of where you want to place the cache. I will have a look and let you know. You can contact me at wga2 at wi-geocaching dot com.

-Tie

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