Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Parks

http://www.lfucg.com/ParksRec/

The following is the policy for hiding caches in Lexington and Fayette County parks.

1.  Groups/individuals must stay on trails at Raven Run and McConnell Springs where hiking off trail can cause ecological damage.

2.  Groups/individuals must obey operating hours and park rules and must park in designated parking areas only.

3.  The owner of the cache should provide an email of request to the Recreation Supervisor/Naturalist listed below.

4.  Current cache owners who already have caches in Lexington parks should send an email in the same manner as a new cache.

5.  LFUCG will respond to the request and will issue an approval number. Once this has been received the cache owner may seek approval from geocaching.com

6.  Park staff will remove all caches hidden without approval.

7.  As per standard GeoCaching rules, no burying of caches is allowed anywhere in the LFUCG Park system.

8.  Physical caches are not allowed in the following areas:
 · Phoenix Park.
 · Thoroughbred Park.
 · Gratz Park.
 · Riding Areas at Masterson (including cross-country courses, jump areas, dressage and lesson rings, paddock areas, and indoor arenas).
 · Camp Kearney during the summer.
 · Golf courses.
 · Pool areas.
 · Community Center grassy areas.
 · Model Airplane Facility at Haley Pike.
 · Anywhere there are gates locked/fences to keep visitors out.
 ·  On the surface of any playing fields.

Note: Triangle Park is not LFUCG property so permission would have to come from Lexington Center Corp.

Requesting approval:

Send an email to [email protected] with "GeoCache Request" in the Subject Line.

Please include the following information in the Body of the email:

1. Name, address and phone number of the owner.
2. Include the name the cache will have on Geocaching.com.
3. Coordinates of the cache location and the coordinates any steps to get to the cache if applicable (for multi caches).
4. Name of the park where cache is to be hidden.
5. Include a description of the cache container (Tupperware, ammo box, and film canister).
6. If you include a parking suggestion include this in the request.
7. Include if the cache is existing (hidden prior to May 1, 2003 only) or new cache.
8. Include 1-2 sentences describing where the cache is hidden.

Do not include pictures, diagrams, figures etc.  Requests that are submitted incomplete will be returned. Once approval has been granted, you will be given an approval number. Include this number at the bottom of your cache description when you post the cache for approval from geocaching.com.

The LFUCG Parks and Recreation cannot assume any liability for any geocache placement.  Geocachers place caches in Parks property at their own risk.  This includes damage, destruction, and loss occurring to any geocache placement.

Moving Caches:

If a cache or any part of a cache needs to be moved due to environmental impact, non-Geocachers finding it, etc. please resubmit the new coordinates and a new description of where the cache has been re-hidden.

Parks:

LFUCG maintains a complete list of Lexington-Fayette Parks at http://www.lfucg.com/parks/locations.asp.  Geocky also has a page with downloadable waypoints and a Google Earth Map of at https://www.geocky.org/ lfparks.html

For more information, contact Michael Downs at [email protected]


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