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Today at White Rock Lake Park

78° F high

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Good hunting weather today: cloudy skies, a high of 78° and no rain in sight.

  • Low58°
  • Rain0%
  • Wind5 mph, gusts 12
  • Sunset6:41 PM, back before dark

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Forecast updated 6:44 AM CDT · Weather data by Open-Meteo.com · alerts from weather.gov

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White Rock Lake Park

Ages 6-10 · Wednesday, Oct 7 · 8 finds

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Park Finds

  1. Find 1: Where are the 3 areas with a dirt mound in the middle?

    Medium · 3 on the park map · OpenStreetMap

  2. Find 2: Which one pours water into a bowl? Listen for its splish-splashing sound!

    Easy · 2 on the park map · OpenStreetMap

    Stay with your grown-up near water.

  3. Find 3: Hunt for a long seat with bench seats attached.

    Easy · 91 on the park map · OpenStreetMap

  4. Find 4: Check for a play spot with things to slide down.

    Easy · 8 on the park map · OpenStreetMap

  5. Find 5: Notice a metal cooker on a stand that is dark from smoke.

    Easy · 12 on the park map · OpenStreetMap

  6. Find 6: Somewhere you will see a thin spurt of water leap from a spout?

    Medium · 31 on the park map · OpenStreetMap

Wild Finds

  1. Find 7: Watch for a bug with a chunky white body and checkered wings!

    Look: near the water

    Hard · seen 2 times since Sep 23 · iNaturalist

    Look, don't touch. Stay with your grown-up near water.

  2. Find 8: Peek at a bird with a black head, white cheeks, and brown body.

    Look: near the water

    Medium · seen once since Sep 23 · iNaturalist

    Watch from far away. Never chase or touch. Stay with your grown-up near water.

Find This Spot

I am a fenced yard where pups can run off the leash. I have two gates in a row so no one slips out!

Start at START and follow the map to the X.

Map of White Rock Lake Park drawn from OpenStreetMap, north is up. START is at a parking lot; the X is about 290 m west of it, and a dotted route follows the paths. Landmarks on the map: Lookout, Parking, Bridge.LookoutParkingBridgeSTARTN100 m (330 ft)
the spot START (begin here) path or trail road walk this way (the X is 290 m west)Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors

October special: monarch butterflies

10 monarchs seen Sep 23-Oct 6 vs 41 in 2025

That's fewer than last year, so a monarch would be a lucky find.

Monarch butterflies reported within 25 km in the 14 days before today (Sep 23-Oct 6): 10 (iNaturalist, checked Oct 7, 10:11 AM CDT). Same two weeks last year (Sep 23-Oct 6, 2025): 41.

Milkweed seen near this park: yes (227 iNaturalist sightings within 1.5 km, all years).

Tip: look on milkweed and on fall flowers on a sunny afternoon. Look, don't touch: let it fly.

Clues written Oct 7, 10:11 AM CDT by gemma-4-31B-it (open model, Apache-2.0) from this park's data. Code checked each one against its source.

For the grown-up

Start with find 3: it's easy and it stays put. Finds 2, 7 and 8 are near water: stay close.

Answer key (don't peek, kids!)
  1. 1. Baseball fields (3 on the park map · OpenStreetMap)
  2. 2. Fountains (Fogelson Fountain) (2 on the park map · OpenStreetMap)
  3. 3. Picnic tables (91 on the park map · OpenStreetMap)
  4. 4. Playgrounds (8 on the park map · OpenStreetMap)
  5. 5. Barbecue grills (12 on the park map · OpenStreetMap)
  6. 6. Drinking fountains (31 on the park map · OpenStreetMap)
  7. 7. Common Whitetail (Plathemis lydia) (seen 2 times since Sep 23 · iNaturalist)
  8. 8. Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) (seen once since Sep 23 · iNaturalist)

Find This Spot: The dog park (White Rock Lake Dog Park). OpenStreetMap way/439763348 ("White Rock Lake Dog Park"); START: parking lot, about 290 m west of START.

  • Lucky Finds: not on this example pass. On Wed, Oct 7, the example passes had used their share of that day's free visitor-review searches (SerpApi); Grass Pass keeps at least half of each day's searches for passes people make.
  • Some things seen here are left off for safety.
  • 4 clues were removed because they gave away the answer or broke one of our rules.
  • Park map checked Oct 5, 6:53 PM CDT (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
  • Wildlife sightings checked Oct 7, 10:11 AM CDT (iNaturalist observers, research grade, within 1.5 km, last 14 days).
  • Species facts: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), via iNaturalist.
  • Clues by gemma-4-31B-it, an open-weight model anyone can download and run. Our code picks what is safe and writes every number and date; the model only chooses from real park data and writes the words.

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