2009 North St. Paul Snow Frolics Hunt

So NSP does not offer a list of parks in their city?

Just this.

I just use google maps. It shows everything

1st clue is up.

CLUE # 1

Looping around and back again,

It's time for the 2009 search to begin.

Gather your team, it's time to play.

Remember on public land you must stay!

No, the park and rec area on the city's website leaves much to the imagination. I don't really know why, budgets, neglect, laziness?

I have what I feel to be a complete list.

North St. Paul Parks

Casey Lakes Park 17th Ave. and Dianne St.

Cannon Park Highway 36 and Margaret St.

Colby Hills 7th St. and Belmont Ave.

Country Club Park Eldridge Ave.

Dorothy Park Lake Blvd. and Poplar Ave.

Franklyn Park 1st Street and Seppala Dr.

Hause Park 4th Ave and Charles St.

McKnight Field Highway 36 and McKnight Road

Northwood Park 1st St. and Northwood Dr.

Polar Park Shawnee Dr. and 2nd St.

Silver Lake Park 19th Ave. and Lake Ave.

Southwood Park Charles Dt. and Belmont Lane

Tower Park 13th Ave. and 2nd St.

Rotary Park Charles and Centennial Dr.

I also have a registered button, if anyone finds it and doesn't have one, let me know.

I have a couple good ideas on parks to check, hopefully I'll get some time tonight.

Thanks.

I just remade the list, noting a few things.

Park	Location	Notes
Casey Lakes Park	17th Ave. and Dianne St.	Large park, many facilities. 2003 Medallion Spot
Cannon Park	Highway 36 and Margaret St.	Presumed demolished with Hwy 36 construction
Colby Hills	7th St. and Belmont Ave.	Small park, tot lot, house and ice rink across street
Country Club Park	Eldridge Ave.	No Signage to indicate it's a park (very Small), looks like a neighbor's side yard
Dorothy Park	Lake Blvd. and Poplar Ave.	Playground equipment, blink and you'll miss it park
Environmental Learning Center	13th Ave. & McKnight Road	Run off Pond, Park Benches
Franklyn Park	1st Street and Seppala Dr.	Confusing location, no signage and actual areas could be any park looking space along the downtown area, probably the area used for the 2004 Medallion
Hause Park	4th Ave and Charles St.	Ice rinks, Tot Lot, warming house, 2008 Medallion Spot
McKnight Field	Highway 36 and McKnight Road	Ballfields, Tennis, some picnic areas, a shelter by the High School and 2005 Medallion Spot.
Northwood Park	1st St. and Northwood Dr.	Tot Lot, Ice Rinks, Water Tower, Ballfield
Polar Park	Shawnee Dr. and 2nd St.	Nestled between Houses and backyards, Tot Lot and Ice Rink
Rotary Park	Charles and Centennial Dr.	Presumed demolished with Hwy 36 Construction, parts might remain along gateway trail, I believe the Rotary Park sign was changed to say "Welcome to North St. Paul" presumably for gateway trail users.
Silver Lake Park	19th Ave. and Lake Ave.	Extends along south end of Silver Lake, Tot lot, fishing pier, trail. 2006 Medallion Spot
Snowman	Highway 36 & Margaret Street	Large Stucco Snowman, paved sidewalk, you would be hard pressed to miss this spot. 2007 Medallion Spot.
Southwood Park	Charles Dt. and Belmont Lane	Mostly a Nature Preserve, Trails, Woods, Viewing platform on south end of park
Tower Park	13th Ave. and 2nd St.	Water Tower, Tot Lot, Picnic Tables
Urban Ecology Center	McKnight and Gateway Trail	Used to be called Sod Farm Park due to an old sod farm being here. Marsh area, Trails, Viewing platform and connected to gateway trail. Lots of area here
Veteran's Park	7th Ave. & Henry Street	I believe they moved the Cannon from Cannon Park to this location, Flagpoles and Veteran Memorials, connected to North St. Paul History Museum

loop around?...

This is great thanks.

too bad Rotary's out. Loop around=rotary

Maybe its not out? could it be hidden on the trail?

possibly...

Interesting idea.

looping around should be a complete circle

reminds me of a nine or something

a sign near by that the lights go around one way and then reverse back the other. or something on the playground the goes around one way and then the other like a tire swing.

Merry go round?

The best approach to NSP is just go check the parks under this and that....not that many parks

Just what I did today for a bit. Tower has 2 merry go rounds. Not many hiding places though. I did notice the logo on the med is on the water tower as well.

Polar has one merry go round. If it's there we should get a lot of Indian references because of the street names around there.

Gather your team, it's time to play makes me think it has ball fields. although it could just mean a play area for kids.

The place formerly known as Rotary looks totally different now. It is still kind of a park there along the trail. Helen St ends and theres a pedestrian bridge a little to the west. Google maps is not showing it correctly.

Ball fields and "looping" trail at Casey Lake.

Looping

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Looping may refer to:

* in computer programming, control loops including the main event loop

    * in film production, automated dialogue replacement

    * in music, music loop.

    * in aviation, performing a loop as an aerobatic maneuver

    * a repeating drawings in an animated cartoon

    * a foreign translation for the animated TV series TaleSpin.

Just to get cha in a "tailspin"

Checking the Clue and what do I see?

THE MEDALLION HAS BEEN FOUND!!!!!

IT WOULD SEEM THAT A NEW RECORD HAS BEEN SET

FOR FINDING THE MEDALLION

IT WAS HIDDEN AT CASEY LAKE PARK

Found!

what!?!?!?!

Dang it, I didn't go to that one!

Whats the point of having a hunt if you leave the thing in broad daylight. They really need to hide them a smidgen harder.

Actually they haven't mentioned how it was hidden yet. Perhaps someone just got really lucky.

Granted North St. Paul has a history of hidding it a bit easy.

I keep saying one of these years I just have to take the monday off and go look. Of course now that the cluewriter has this embarrasment, it'll probably be a long hunt next year.

They are making up for the fact last year sucked and was never found!

Actually that was 2 years ago. Last years was found in Hause Park on the morning of the 2nd clue.

2007 was the year of the snowman incident.

BTW, I was glad it was at Casey Park this year, secretly it was the park I wanted to check out. For Three main reasons.

1. The clue mentioned looping back. The medallion was hidden in Casey Park in 2003, thus they looped back to hide it in that park again. (On a personal note, this might mean that the cluewriter is either the same person, or has notes from previous hunts, kind of nice to know).

2. The clue mentions teams, which obviously made me think of sports fields, either baseball of hockey. Casey Lake has ballfields.

3. If the first reference of looped back wasn't refering to the previous hide, it might have been the trail loop in the park. Or, maybe the looped back had a double meaning. I guess we won't know unless the clue explanations are published.

So, at least I had the right park in mind regarding the clue :smile:

wow wasnt that fun :eyeroll:

Want to buy one now?

:wink:

j/k I could still win a drawing I suppose.

"Often adolescents and young men experience (PEC) premature exploration completion during their first treasure hunt encounters, but eventually learn control and enjoy the stimulation of the hunt."

Sigmund Find

tagline!

dibs!

Thank God we created a new thread for this bang up job of a hunt :eyeroll:

We had our registered button and had already looked at McKnight fields and Tower park :neutral: ....

we also went with the "loop around" to mean hidden in a park were it was before and of course "gather your team" we thought of baseball/softball and off we went to McKnight fields....oh well.....next year :pbpt:

Next year I'm going to go look around Sunday evening before the first clue comes out :wink:

Probably not a bad idea.

Bwaahahahaha!!!

That was so fast we didn't even get a chance to obsess!

When does the North Branch one start? I am just a hop skip and jump away!