Arlington Parks Mystery Cache

Congratulations to boatchick on being the First to Find.

The cache is not located at the coordinates given. Don't go there unless you plan to play some golf. You must accomplish the task provided below to acquire the coordinates for the cache.

>On 29 September 2011 the cache page has been updated to reflect the current park sign codes. If you started the process prior to March 2011 you might have some sign code errors. In that case just email me the codes that you have and I'll give you the correct ones in return. If you started on this adventure after March 2011, you probably already have the correct code letters. If the math doesn't work out or if you want to confirm your calculated coords, just send me an email..

>See Ham2405 note of 3/10/2011: "I've done 23 of 35 parks on the way towards getting all the letters in the past 8 months. Possible solution: keep the info the same, but have folks submit their finished list of parks with code letters to you. In my example, my list would then have some old and some new code letters. Review my list and provide an old code letter to go with the new correct code letter. Wouldn't be much work since only 8 people have completed this one in 18 months!" .

The city of Arlington has 42 parks with trails. Each of these trails has a sign on it, somewhere, that looks like this:

NORTH ARLINGTON PARKS WITH TRAILS:

a. River Legacy Parks, 710 NW Green Oaks Blvd., 76012 11.10 miles

b. Dixon Holman Park, 2409 Burney Place, 76011 .32 miles

o. Dr. Robert Cluck Linear Park, Randol Mill Rd to Sanford St. 1.43 miles.

q. Richard Greene Linear Park, 1601 E Randol Mill Rd., 76011 1.97 miles.

WEST ARLINGTON PARKS WITH TRAILS:

d. Randol Mill Park, 1901 W. Randol Mill Rd., 76012 .47 miles

e. Bob Findlay Park, 900 Findlay Drive, 76012 North for .60 miles.

f. Village Creek Historical Area, 2605 Dottie Lynn Expy., 76012 5.00 miles

g. Clarence Foster Park, 4400 Woodland Park Blvd., 76013 1.00 miles

h. Kelley Park, 4195 W. Arkansas Lane, 76013 .79 miles

j. Veterans Park, 3600 W. Arkansas Ln., 76014 1.35 miles

k. California Lane Park, 1931 California Lane, 76015 .20 miles

m. Bowman Springs Park, 7003 Polly Webb Road, 76016 .16 mile

n. Marti Van Ravenswaay Park, 4601 Bowman Springs Rd., 76016 .40 miles

p. Mary & Jimmie Hooper Park, 2303 W. Pleasant Ridge Rd. 76015 .43 miles

EAST ARLINGTON PARKS WITH TRAILS:

r. Meadowbrook Park, 1300 E. Dugan St., 76010 .50 miles

t. Carl Knox Park, 1200 Susan Drive .50 miles

u. Bob Cooke Park, 2025 CraigHanking Drive, 76010 .96 miles

v. Marrow Bone Springs, 600 W. Arkansas Ln., 76014 .49 miles

x. Brantley Hinshaw Park, 2121 Overbrook Drive, 76014 .55 miles

y. HAD Dunsworth Park, 1110 Waverly Dr., 76015 .43 miles

SOUTHWEST ARLINGTON PARKS WITH TRAILS:

bb. Cliff Nelson Park, 4600 Bardin Road, 76017 .42 miles

cc. Wimbledon Park, 2300 Wimbledon Dr., 76017 1.09 miles

ee. Stovall Park, 2800 W. Sublett Rd., 76017 1.18 miles

ff. OW Fannin Natural Area, Hardisty Dr. and Fox Hunt Dr. .32

gg. ‘Red’ Kane Park, 6500 S. Cooper St., 76017 .53 miles

ii. Martin Luther King Jr. Sports Center, 7001 Golf Club Drive, 76001 1.64 miles

SOUTHEAST ARLINGTON PARKS WITH TRAILS:

jj Bob McFarland Park, 410 E. Embercrest Drive, 76018 .53 miles

kk. Cravens Park, 400 Cravens Park Drive, 76002 1.50 miles

mm. Fish Creek Linear Park, 400 Cravens Park Dr., 76002 3.01 miles

nn. Fish Creek Neighborhood Park, 2121 Havenwood Dr., 76018 .5 miles

pp. Lynn Creek Park, 6501 Matlock Rd., 76002 .31 miles

rr. WO & Zeta Workman Park , 6701 Tabor Dr., 76018 .48 miles

ss. Webb Community Park, 1100 Mansfield-Webb Rd., 76002 .5 miles

tt. Don Misenhimer Park, 201 E. Lonesome Dove Tr., 76002 .65 miles

FREEBIES FOR N32 & W97:

c. Gibbons Park, 2101 Margaret Drive, 76012 .26 miles.(I=9)

i. Howard Moore Park, 1018 W Tucker Blvd., 76013 .43 miles (E=5)

s. Helen Wessler Park , 2200 Greenway St., 76010 .66 miles (A=1)

w. BC Barnes Park, 3000 Daniel Drive, 76014 .38 miles (H=8)

z. Gateway Park, High Point Rd and Arbrook Blvd, 76014 .31 miles (L=12)

aa. Gene Schrickel Park, 3904 Carol Lane, 76017 .34 miles (I=9)

dd. Deaver Park, 5800 Kelly Elliot Road, 76017 .15 miles (A=1)

hh. Allan Saxe Park, 3501 Curry Road, 76017 .5 miles (W=23)

oo. Founder Plaza / Levitt Pavilion, 100 W. Abram Street., 76010 .2 miles. (Y=25)

qq. Center Street Trail, starting at Abram and Center Street 1.00 mile North. (S=19)

N (z-aa) (oo-hh) (b-f+a-j) (r+v-gg-nn).(e+mm+x-j-p) (o-pp-ff) (bb+x-h-a)

W (c) (qq-w-i+s) (ii+jj-p-kk-ss) (u+h-pp-k).(n+ee-d) (rr+v+k-cc-m) (y-tt-t-g)

Got that all figured out? NO! Well heres some examples:

Lets say you just happen to visit Gateway Park and you find the sign. The sign has the verification code L. Well L is the 12th letter in the alphabet, so subsitute 12 for the letter z in the N coordinate. How did I know it is for the letter z? Because z is identifying Gateway Park as depicted above.

Now you just by chance visit Gene Schrickel Park, that is identified by the letters aa above. You hike the trail and find the sign and it has the letter I on it. Substituting 9 for I and replacing the aa with 9, you now have an equation to solve. The equation is (z-aa) or 12-9 and that equals 3. Amazing enough, 3 is the first number in the North coordinate.

You can practice your mathematical skills by doing the Freebie parks shown above. You should come up with N32 and W97. If you don't, drop Hikeaday a line. Don't write me, I haven't the foggiest idea how this works.

I've indicated, in the attributes, that the cache is wheel chair and stroller accessable. However, neither would be able to make it to the final. If any wheel chair bound cacher is able to come up with the coordinates for this cache, you are welcome to claim it as a find. And for stroller pushing parents, Wee Willy's Mom, Hikeaday, and I would willing keep an eye on the little one while you search for the cache.