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Are there any Must Do caches in the St. Louis Area? We will be coming over there Saturday.

 

Hi. My sister lives in St Louis. Castlewood Park is da bomb! here's my log from that park, with pics, Also, check nearby caches for more pics. A great hike in a beautiful place.

 

cache log Castlewood park

 

We also enjoyed Tower Grove Park. Not nearly as dramatic, but a very nice park in the city. More pics on nearby caches:

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...6f-975d43e30a48

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I will be looking forward to your trip. "Cant Miss caches" is a rather tall order as there are so many good caches here. I have listed parks with a high concentration of caches, a mix of easy and hard. Looking at the list, there are a high number of "walking in the woods" kind of caches. There are caches in every park you drive past in St. Louis but these are some of the more "bang for the buck" parks.

I have been wanting to put together a series of Bookmark lists of STL caches. Best city caches, best containers, best caches for out of towners, Best walks in the woods ect, then let other folks manage a list. When anyone wanted info on "the best of..." we would have lists. So far, I have not had any takers on my bookmark idea. This may be the start of that list!

 

Generally, when I go out of town, I would not spend all day on one cache. We are looking for fast easy get them and go caches and there are plenty of those around . Search for 1/1's or possibly 2/2 and below and there will be hundreds of grab and go's BUT if you are here for quality these are a good place to start.

 

In general, Good Creative caches that offer a mix of head scratchin, trail walking and/or cleaver containers in the South and south west part of town, look for caches by RGS and Digi Guy. Shameless plug..... I still have a few caches but they are nothing special just good basic caches. "Lost Caverns" (very easy good for kids), "Freddies Hide a Way (easy in a nice park), Choices (a hard one), Eddies Picnic Friends" (Easy nice walk in the woods) , a virtual "Mienrods Curious Spot" (it is also a waymark) they are worth a look.

 

HappyKraut and Brawney Bear have many good caches out in St. Charles county/Weldon Springs area.

 

Caches listed by High density parks:

 

Forest Park. In the City of St. Louis. http://tinyurl.com/opnqy 20+ Caches Nice mix of caches in beautiful Forest park in the City. Some are in the zoo (free to get in).

 

Don't miss WhiteCliff Park and "Just an Ammo box in the woods" (RGS cache) AND "Just ANother Ammo Box in the woods" (RGS & DigiGuy cache) these 2 should NOT get together!! I had a hand in a tiny bit of the planning but not enough to take credit for anything. :-) http://tinyurl.com/rl6sh

This is another group of about 15-20 caches and will take several hours. Not as remote as Greenfelter and West Tyson but nice wooded area with trails. This park features the 1st park sponsored Geocaching hunt.

 

Another good park is Kirkwood park. Nice mix of caches here too. I think there are 8 or 9 caches here. Estate Sale is one that will be a head scratcher. http://tinyurl.com/okryr

 

Greenfelter County Park http://tinyurl.com/pk2g4 These are "walk in the woods " caches. I have one here. (Choices) that not may prople do but the folks that do it, like it. These could take all day. Nice mix of easy and hard. Terrain is a little tougher. Off trail bushwacking. Nice views.

 

West Tyson County Park http://tinyurl.com/p7lgu There are probably 20+ caches here. You can warm up scratching your head with an easy RGS cache, "Tail of 2 City parks" then move to Daryl and Daryl. D&D is my favorite of the well planned, puzzle, hike in the woods and find a big box" cache. It is NOT easy. D&D will take 4 or 5 hours but you will pass near the other 15+ caches in the park that you can get while you are there. The terrain here is hilly and wooded. You will do a mix of on and off trail hiking. Heck, I did D&D (twice) and it didn't kill me so it isn't that bad tho. The caches range from "go here and find a easy box " to "solve the puzzle and have a list of phone numbers ready" If you want to do D&D, drop RGS a note. He may have hints for you or we could announce a possible "group hunt" to knock out all of the caches in the park. This park would take probably all of one day. D7D is not a cache that "out of towners" generally do just because it is a big investment of time but they don't get much better anywhere. The other caches you can get while you are out make it more worthwhile.

 

Weldon Spring Area contain lots of caches by Happy Kraut and brawney bear. Some are easy and others hard. there is a string of OLD lost cemeteries that BruceS highlighted. they are nice.

See http://tinyurl.com/n8f2j there are more than 20 caches here and more than will fit on the map. You can scroll around and see more. This will take all day or probably 2 days.

 

As an exercise in cryptography look at Know Futures series of caches. Fun to read thru but I can't do any of them. I just dont know how to do it. They are the most creative caches I have read but... I cant do them. The Fascist Femme Enigma by Know Future GCPM99, The Lost Treasure of Thomas Beale by Know Future GCX1DF, Nick Danger and the Case of the Dancing Men by Know Future GCKDMF. There are many more too. Know Future is a geologist in real life and if you want to learn about geology check out his "Roadside Geology" cache. For me, it was too much driving but is very interesting stuff.

 

There are other areas that also contain great caches but you just cant get to everything.

There are several caches downtown now if you like urban caches. If you want to pick and choose good caches. You cant go wrong with RGS caches.

 

Best containers RGS and Digi guy for sure.

 

I will ask around to see what others think so this list may change but this will give you something to look at and links to cache pages that you can read.

 

Glenn

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