White Bear Lake Manitou Days Treasure Hunt
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Submitted by Joe Medallion on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 13:17
The White Bear Lake Manitou Days Treasure Hunt is held annually within White Bear Lake and its neighboring communities. It has been going on since 1990. A Cooler Crew find in this one will be a great feather in our collective cap, as it would break a nice dynasty that has found it for about a decade now.
| Year | General Location | Pinpointed Location | Concealer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Lakewood Hills Park | Under an Oak Tree just past the baseball diamonds | A home-made nest |
| 1996 | Bellaire Park, White Bear Township | Inside a hole in a large oak tree | Bare inside the hole |
| 1997 | Clark Avenue Boulevard | ||
| 1998 | Bald Eagle Lake Park, White Bear Township | Underneath a very slanted tree | A amall Ziploc Bag |
| 1999 | Wildwood Park, Mahtomedi | Near Lost Lake | In a bed of soft moss |
| 2000 | West Park, White Bear Lake | At the base of a grill | Wrapped in charcoal briquettes |
| 2001 | Central Park Middle School, White Bear Lake | In a ditch under a footbridge along Bloom Avenue | In a sandwich of rocks |
| 2002 | Rotary Farm Nature Preserve, White Bear Lake | Ten paces from a wooden deck | Inside a Dr. Pepper Bottle |
| 2003 | Podvin Park, White Bear Lake | At a sewer drain near a light pole | Dangling from the drain |
| 2005 | Jack Yost Park, White Bear Lake | 103 paces from the "V" shaped tree on Fourth Street. | In the underbrush near the outfield of the nearby baseball diamond. |
| 2007 | Ramsey County Beach (White Bear Lake Beach) | Placed in an area of high weeds | The medallion was hidden in a bag. |
| 2008 | Wedgewood Park, Mahtomedi | The medallion was slid into moss growing on a fallen tree. | The moss |
| 2010 | Polar Lakes Park, White Bear Township | Between a stand of oak trees and a sign saying “297 feet” | Wrapped in grass and surrounded with a clay/water “muck” |
| 2011 | Moon Lake Park, White Bear Township | Inside a rotted out oak stump | Toilet paper |
| 2012 | North of the Historic Train Depot along Highway 61 | Tucked in the wooded area north of the depot | A clay rock |
| 2013 | Rutherford Park, White Bear Township | ||
| 2014 | Varney Lake Park | On Van Dyke Street North of Orchard in a stand of 3 trees | The Weeds |
| 2015 | Fox Meadow Park, White Bear Township | Tucked within a hole in a tree | |
| 2016 | Railroad Park | Under the big pine tree | Covered in the mulch |
| 2017 | Matoska Park | Near the sluice by the bridge | Under an iris plant |
| 2018 | Lakewood Hills Amphitheater | In an ash tree in the amphitheater | Slid into a 1/2" slot between two roots |
| 2019 | Lakewood Hills Park | In a tree at the end of the wall | Glued to the end of a broken off branch that had been reinserted into the tree |
| 2020 | Goose Lake | Along the shore | |
| 2021 | Bald Eagle/Otter Lake Park/Benson Prairie | In the Homer Bruggeman-planted stand of White Pines | |
| 2022 | South Shore of Bald Eagle Lake | On the public Easement at Bald Eagle Blvd and West Ave. | |
| 2023 | Polar Lakes Park | Just South of the Wihte Bear Town Hall | Under the leaf of a milkweed plant. |
