2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed

With my visit to Gooseberry Falls State Park, I've officially completed the Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari.  The adventure, sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, is a three year program to help introduce park visitors to geocaching.  Each of Minnesota's 72 state parks has its own collectible trading card depicting a critter that is significant to the area each park resides.  Trading cards are collected by finding and logging the geocache within each state park.  Collect all 72 cards and you are among a very distinct group that has had the privilege to visit every corner of Minnesota.  The program is scheduled to run from May 2nd, 2009 through May 2nd, 2012.

My adventure started on opening day of the program, May 2nd, 2009 when the state park system held an event at Mille Lacs Kathio State Park to introduce the new three year program.  Since I had completed the 2008 Minnesota State Parks Geocaching History Challenge the year before, I had no interest in visiting all of Minnesota's 72 state parks a second time.  It did not take long for me to get absorbed into the program and within one year's time, I had completed the challenge.

Enjoy the photographs (click thumbnails for larger view)..

2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Mille Lacs Kathio State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Crow Wing State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Charles A. Lindberg State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Father Hennepin State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Sakatah Lake State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Nerstrand Big Woods State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Rice Lake State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Myre-Big Island State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Lake Louise State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Forestville-Mystery Cave State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Lake Carlos State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Glendalough State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Maplewood State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Buffalo River State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Red River State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Old Mill State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Lake Bronson State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Hayes Lake State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Franz Jevne State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Moose Lake State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Banning State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Fort Ridgely State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Flandrau State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Minneopa State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Wild River State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Interstate State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed St. Croix River Boom Site State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed William O'Brien State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Kilen Woods State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Lake Shetek State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Split Rock Creek State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Blue Mounds State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Carley State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Whitewater State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Beaver Creek Valley State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Great River Bluffs State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed John A. Latsch State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Frontenac State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Afton State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Fort Snelling State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Camden State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Upper Sioux Agency State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Lac Qui Parle State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Big Stone Lake State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Glacial Lakes State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Lake Maria State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Sibley State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Monson Lake State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Savanna Portage State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Schoolcraft State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Hill Annex Mine State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Scenic State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed McCarthy Beach State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Soudan Underground Mine State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Bear Head Lake State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed St. Croix State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Itasca State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Lake Bemidji State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Zippel Bay State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Garden Island State Recreation Area	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Big Bog State Recreation Area
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Jay Cooke State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Split Rock Lighthouse State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Cascade River State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Grand Portage State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Judge Magney State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Temperance River State Park
2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed George H. Crosby Manitou State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Tetteguche State Park	2010 - Minnesota State Parks Geocaching Wildlife Safari Completed Gooseberry Falls State Park