2025 Hastings Rivertown Days Medallion Hunt

Centers search for rivers and bridges in Hastings.

Meant to throw people off by including Mississippi, not being specific about two rivers or two bridges. The intentional use of the singular river and plural bridges guides you to look between two bridges.

as you follow the stream, the recent trail bridge west of the location, and the Hwy 61 bridge you walk under

The location is in front of a large river birch tree

Located in a Greenway (Mississippi or Vermillion River)

Near a floodplain (Vermillion and Mississippi have a flooded area along public land)

Wearing his number weekly, every Sunday, also 52 weeks in a year. Dorian Mausi now wears #52 at Linebacker

Centers search within Vermillion River Greenway.

Vermillion was named after its reddish clay shores the Dakota (part of the Sioux) used as a red paint, calling the river "Wa Se Sa Wa Kpa," meaning Red Paint River.

Vermillion is from the french "vermil" which is from the latin "vermiculus", or "little worm" a reference to a reddish insect that was used to make a scarlet dye in

Medieval Europe

The medallion is hidden high on the signpost.

Narrow down to the correct section of the Greenway to search

All of these are referenced in signposts along the Vermillion River Trail system:

The medallion is upstream from The Old Mill Ruins, owned by J.C. Hartin and E. Van Voorhis at the time of the fire,

upstream from the old High & Dry train bridge (now a pedestrian bridge), upstream from Ardent Mill (originally Gardner Mill) and site of the American implementation of the roller mill,

But along the spillway created in 1979 in response to the flood of 1965.

Maybe a little U2 allusion to throw off some fans

Charles Powell Adams, or commonly known by his initials CP Adams, as a Hastings Mayor, MN Senator and Civil War hero of Antietam and Gettysburg. The location is 1.6 miles west of CP Adams Park as marked on a signpost at the site on the south side of the trail. The signpost directly north contains the medallion, taped to the back of it.

Meant to be a red herring, to move people towards CP Adams park but also contains a warning to NOT look at CP Adams (out of place).

Intentionally capitalized V R L P - initials for Vermillion River Linear Park

The Dale Lewis sturgeon statue, titled "Sturgeon", made out of stainless steel, along the bike path is looking right at the hiding spot

Along the bike trail at the intersection with the path to 3lst St.

At the top of a signpost

On the north side of a signpost