WANTED: PaddleCaches

[GetMeOutdoors]

I’m from Wausau (nice and centrally located) where there are a lot of great caches on the Wisconsin River – on islands! Watercraft or great swimmer arms are needed to reach these, and I’d highly recommend them to anyone in the state. However, I’m looking for some similar recommendations from other places in the state for this summer. Anyone know of some great caches or series on islands?

[Sunshine34]

I know of at least two, that are in and around Sayner. One was on an island on Plum Lake. I believe it was called Star Bay Monster 2. The other one is on the island on Big Musky Lake.

[RSplash40]

Not sure if they’d fit the bill but I can think of three in Eagle River

Mine (2000 Echo’s) would be a great starting point to a paddling adventure.

Then there is one on Pioneer lake, and one on …arg..eagle lake maybe?

You could go to Neenah/Menasha and do Nifty Fifty, but you’d have to get wet on that one :>

[Johnny Cache]

The 2 mentioned above are:

GC150K9 Star Bay Monster 2
GCPF3V Eagles Nest

Others near there are:

GC112DY Gum Drop Island
GC1104P St Germain Little Bass Lake
GC13NZ4 P.L.I. Crappie Cache

Easiest way to find these caches is to run a Pocket Query and specify a terrain of 5. You can then preview the results and check each listing to see if the special equipment needed is a boat.

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

::::Shameless self promotion::::

Be Like Rogheff: If There’s a Will There’s a Wave is my island cache in Kenosha, but it’s not on a river, it’s on Lake Michigan. More specifically, on a breakwater.

[Lostby7]

The Island GCQQ46 (Pewaukee)
Carpe’ Cache’ GC1F93 (Johnson Creek)

[Timberline Echoes]

If you start at the source of the WI River we have one there and as you head down the river there are at least 3 before Eagle River. Several of ours can be reached by boat, I think it would be quite a paddle by canoe on the chain of lakes. If you need names and numbers I can ask Mr TE.
TE

[Pto]

The only one I’ve ever done, but have to highly recommend it-
it has 3 options for different types of paddles-

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=db5a5bf2-a8f2-41c8-b881-c838f7c8b457

Mallalieu Canoe by tricolor

The last dnf log was from a guy who didnt even get out of his canoe, so I doubt it has gone missing. Its an awesome trip!

[Bart Flentje]

In south eastern MN, about 30 minutes south of metro area…

Cannon River Bend GC138K7

and its five other sister caches. This one is disabled at the moment but will be active in the very early spring.

[Grandma & Grandpa]

Ahhhhh, cache searching while paddling – combining two of my passions!

GC144E4 Northwood Island Cache. This cache is in northern Oconto County, WI. Not particularly awesome, but it does require paddling to get to the island. And there are several other great caches in the immediate area.

There are at least a couple caches on the Michigamme Resevoir northwest of Iron Mountain, MI which may be paddled to, altho they are on the mainland. We have also paddled to caches while camping on the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage in Mercer, but these also were on the mainland.

There is a series of five or six micro caches along the Little Wolf River in Waupaca County, leading to a nice ammo can final. These are along the shore, but all can be easily reached while paddling the river. Do a 54983 search, and look for the LWR caches.

I’m thinking a lot about my canoes and kayaks these days! Can’t wait for the spring thaw.

cYa, Grandpa

[RSplash40]

ahh, yes, PLI and this one, 3 hour tour, were the ones I was thinking of:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=20de160c-c287-4ef4-9830-c119449aa7d2

[elfdoctors]

Here’s two options up in the northwest part of the state.

St. Croix National Scenic Riverway: you can make this into a week long trip along the St. Croix and Namekagon rivers but caches are far apart because of the riverway being owned by the National Park Service. Here’s a few caches which are easily accessible from the water which are associated with usual landings on the river.

GC12WZX
GC12Y76
GC12W18
GC161G6
GC168E2
GCP64Y
GCP5PR

…and for a smaller option – here are 3 caches in Burnett County on Clam Lake and River – I’ve only found 2 of them so far.

GC14ZPH
GCWPNR
GCXQ29

[hogrod]

our geocache rubens cave is accessible on foot or by canoe on the sugar river/little sugar river. We listed coordinates for a couple boat landings on the cache page.

GCNVC1

[kbraband]

Cool topic! I enjoyed checking out the links to caches. Some of them brought back some good memories, especially Carpe Cache, which Grousetales and I first found way back in ’02. I didn’t know about the cache in Kenosha harbor when I did a moonlight kayak paddle there a couple of months ago with Cat Hunter.

[cheezehead]

@elfdoctors wrote:

Here’s two options up in the northwest part of the state.

St. Croix National Scenic Riverway: you can make this into a week long trip along the St. Croix and Namekagon rivers but caches are far apart because of the riverway being owned by the National Park Service. Here’s a few caches which are easily accessible from the water which are associated with usual landings on the river.

GC12WZX
GC12Y76
GC12W18
GC161G6
GC168E2
GCP64Y
GCP5PR

…and for a smaller option – here are 3 caches in Burnett County on Clam Lake and River – I’ve only found 2 of them so far.

GC14ZPH
GCWPNR
GCXQ29

Here is one that fits in between the first 2 listed.

GCK71R

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