State Road 4

North Liberty, Indiana

St. Joseph County

Placed August 20, 2001 by Rainbow's End

Difficulty:  Easy

Time:  15 minutes to 1 hour

Enter Potato Creek State Park.  If possible, ask for a park map at the Visitors Center.  Find your way to the Quaking Aspen Picnic Area, close to the entrance gate house.  Begin your hike at eastern point of Trail Head #3 (there are 2 points to this loop trail).  Shortly after you begin your hike into the woods, you will come upon a wonderful overlook of Potato Creek.  Be sure to take the time to read the informational placard!  After you think you have absorbed the information, continue your hike along the trail. 

Soon you will come upon a wonderful bridge.  Cross both legs of the bridge at stop at the end of the bridge.  Take the year in which the partnership was created and the creek was dammed and multiply that number by 1.1% or .011.  Take those number of paces due north from the end of the second leg of the bridge and you will discover a dinosaur egg in the woods.  (Please do not move it)  Now go northwest from the egg 14 paces.  This should bring you to the foot of a fallen tree and the letterbox.

 We encourage you to finish the loop trail…enjoy learning about the deer study area and enjoy the boardwalk with a view of the lake.