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Windmill at Bob Evans LbNA #69808

Owner:Captain Kirk
Plant date:May 15, 2016
Location: Bob Evans Farm, Rte 588
City:Rio Grande, Ohio
County:Gallia
State:Ohio
Boxes:0
Found by: Not yet found!
Last found:N/A
Last edited:Apr 17, 2016
Bob Evans Farm is a valued member of the community. Not only do they run a family-friendly restaurant and farm, but they open their field to musical concerts, special events, RC Airplane fly-ins, and model rocketry launches. For this reason, we want to make certain not to annoy them or cause them any grief. Technically, this private land that is open to the public, and so we have access.

The village of Rio Grande is small, and features a university, Bob Evans Farms, a couple of shops or stores, a pair of rest areas and not much more. US Route 35 runs a mile north across the region between Gallipolis and Chillecothe.

Take the Rio Grand exit and travel one mile south on Route 325 to Route 588 west. You will pass a McDonalds and a gas station/convenience store on your right. YOU MUST STOP AT THE INTERSECTION OF ROUTE 588. Not all directions must stop, but you DO!

After turning left, east onto rte 588, you will travel up a small rise hilltop for about a mile. During this mile, you will pass a Subway and a pizza chain on your right. Just after the small local No-Tell Motel on the right is the brick entrance to Rio Grande University athletic fields. Turn right through the gate and pause. From this location you can view the entire Bob Evans Farm valley. On your left across rte 588 is the Bob Evans Restaurant and farm complex. On the right side of the highway far ahead, you can spy a small windmill. In the middle of the farm field stands a small white bldg which is not your goal. To your far right are the athletic fields of Rio Grande which are too far and out of bounds.

If you didn't know better, you might think this was an airport. And it serves as one for the Radio Controlled airplane flying club Rio Grande Fliers,. It is also festival parking for music concerts and the annual Fall Farm Festival.

The shortest distance to the windmill is to continue East on Rte 588 about a half a mile. Counting the brick gateway to Rio Grand as the first entrance, skip the second gated entrance with the sign board on your right, and turn in at the third entrance, a gravel road that passes in front of the windmill and then curves back toward the athletic fields.

What you seek is hidden in the bushes and flowers that surround the Windmill in Bob Evans farm field. You will spot a Camo-wrapped JIF jar letterbox with a bright yellow lid. Remove from the jar a store-bought stamp and a simple log book. Hope you brought your own stamp pad, pen and some paper towels to clean up. Please reseal both baggies after doing your business, and replace the jar ,tucked far enough back not to be seen by the mowers, but able to be found by letterboxers. Please leave the jar with the writing readable from the outside.

Perhaps a later box will be secreted there, if a suitable concealment can be found that won't annoy the mowers and maintenance people.

Do not molest the windsock tower nor the windmill. Return to Rte 588 by driving past the windmill and returning carefully onto the highway when traffic allows. Consider a meal or refreshment at Bob Evans Restaurant just across the street before heading home.

Hike length: 0.1 miles