2012 Woodbury Days Treasure Hunt

This introductory clue welcomes hunters back and tips them off that the medallion will be placed on public land (the opposite of private).

The slow burn continues with a conspicuous reveal: it’s at a public park in Woodbury.

The first line contains the words “grounds,” which is an early hint that the medallion was placed on the ground and not at an elevated position. The last line – paired with the information from two previous clues – gets you in the vicinity: you’re headed to a park off Valley Creek Road. That drastically narrows the field.

“Burning up” is a reference to the Burn it Up 5K event held in the fall at Colby Lake Park. Since that was a relatively obscure clue, we got more obvious at the end. Colby Lake Park was adopted by the Woodbury Islamic Society. A sign at the park’s entrance clearly displays it.

There’s lots of stuff here, in case Monday’s clue didn’t get you on your way. The cover photo of the Woodbury Community Guide was shot at Colby Lake Park (Page 3 of the community guide even lists the location of the cover photo). Some hunters took the bait and headed straight for the trail depicted in the photo. It wasn’t there. (Remember, the clue only said the medallion was somewhere in the park pictured on the cover, not on that particular trail.) And as if you needed more, we embedded “cheesy” as a reference to Colby cheese. Lastly, we give a very specific clue: it’s somewhere in the weeds.

Now that hunters would have known the park (we finally give the name away for anyone still struggling) we get even more specific. Take a trail. Look in the southern portion of Colby Lake Park. Putting all this together, hunters would have been nearly on top of it.

This was saved unless it needed to be spelled out – which this clue does. The hiding spot was on the weeded fringe of a paved inlet just north of Park Crossing in Colby Lake Park.