Brown's Creek Landing Multi-cache
GPSr: Not sure if the city has any plans to rebuild park after the new Municipal Service Center is complete. The cache may be resurrected in a similar setting along the creek at an undisclosed new location.
Thanks to all for finding it.
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In 1822, seventeen-year-olds William Joseph Snelling (son of Josiah Snelling), Joseph Renshaw Brown and two other young soldiers canoed Minnehaha Creek. They traveled 2 days through lush wetlands, tall hardwood forest and savannah to reach Lake Minnetonka. They camped overnight on Big Island and returned to the fort the next day. They were the first Europeans to record a trip to the lake. For another thirty years, few white people ventured up the creek which settlers called Brown’s Creek. The Dakota kept quiet about sacred Lake Minnetonka and prevented mapmakers from further exploration for decades. As late as 1850 government maps didn’t even refer to the existence of the lake.
This park is one of the seventeen canoe/kayak stops along Minnehaha Creek that begins at Gray’s Bay Dam and continues 22 miles through the cities of Minnetonka, Hopkins, St. Louis Park, Edina, and ends at Longfellow Lagoon (just before Minnehaha Falls) near my old neighborhood in south Minneapolis. Minnehaha Creek is rated as a class I or II stream with a variety of rapids scattered among the sections. It would take you six to nine hours to paddle it today when the water levels are good. According to a canoe map I located, it lists the original site of where Globe Mill (later renamed Schussler Mill) in St. Louis Park was located. It milled flour here between 1874 and 1898. It produced 125 barrels of flour per day and was located east of this landing. There were a total of six mills along the Minnehaha that were mainly used to grind flour. From these mills our suburban cities developed. The nearby Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad first crossed the creek just upstream, along what was then the millpond.
The last cache placed here was muggled recently so I will try something a little different. The above coordinates will get you to the sign at the park entrance. Continue into the parking lot. Count the number of large wooden posts. Starting with the original coord’s project a waypoint (using true north and changing to meters) based on the following:
If there are 12 posts then go .12 km at 176°
If there are 20 posts then go .16 km at 145°
If there are 24 posts then go .15 km at 159°
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