Deer Lakes Notes

The terrain consists of rolling hills around three small (3-4 acre) man-made lakes.  There are patches of green, mostly light and medium; however, most of the forest is open with open-forest corridors though most of the green areas.  There are multiple stream systems with a few marshes; all streams are easily crossable. There are a few moderately steep areas; but even these are mostly in open forest.  There are many places where the contours form a series of reentrants (usually shallow) over a distance of several hundred meters.  The individual reentrants are generally very distinguishable on the ground, even in the light green.

There is an 18-hole disc golf course.  Each hole has three tees, usually rectangular concrete pads about 1.5 meters by 3 meters, that are not mapped.  Each hole has three possible basket locations; each basket is about 1.5 meters high.  Because the baskets can be moved at random by those who manage the disc golf course, the baskets are not mapped.  In some areas of the disc golf course, there are worn areas that are the paths of the golfers; these are not mapped as paths.

The park contains about 75 acres of tillable land and part (usually about 20%) of it is cultivated in any year.  Naturally, any field with a planted crop in it is out-of-bounds.  You may skirt the edges of these fields but not cross them.  Note:  fields with only grass growing in them may be crossed in any direction.

There are several isolated footbridges.  These bridges once spanned a small stream or a marsh and were on a trail or portion of a trail that no longer exists.  They are still mapped as footbridges because of their appearance.  Also on the no-longer-existing trails are sets of wooden stairs, now rotting away; these are mapped with black X's if they are not too deteriorated.  A wide variety of other objects are also mapped as black X's:  junk piles, large sections of unused pipe, swing sets, cutoff utility poles (0.7 m high), and old display stands (0.5 m high).

There are many very shallow ditches, probably once there to prevent erosion.  These ditches range from about 0.25 m deep to about 1.0 m deep.  Many of the shallower ones are not mapped, especially those in green areas.

Features not mapped:
Information signs, water fountains, spigots, disc golf tees, disc golf baskets