Quests in New Palestine, Indiana

Hancock County

• Sugar Creek to New Palestine: A Main Street WalkA town that answered to two names for fifty years. Walk its Main Street, its railroad trail and its creek.
• The Road to CincinnatiNew Palestine’s Main Street is an old state road. Drive five miles west to the marker that tells its story.
• Sugar Creek Township Park Nature LoopEighty-eight acres at the west edge of town: a gravel trail, open fields, woods and an outdoor classroom.
• Buck Creek Woods at Southeastway ParkEighty acres of forest, a pond, prairies and Buck Creek, ten minutes from Main Street.
• New Palestine Kids’ Explorer DayA morning at Sugar Creek Township Park: a playground, a disc golf challenge, a quiet salute and a nature bingo.
• New Pal Date Night: Golden Hour on the GravelA stroll down Main Street, a picnic at the park and the last light over the fields, together.
• The New Palestine Photo MarathonEight photo challenges from Main Street to the railroad trail to the township park.
• Blue Star Kindness QuestSeven small, good things around New Palestine: thank a helper, honor the banners, leave a park better.
• The Dragon Egg HuntA clutch of dragon eggs has hatched out all over Sugar Creek Township Park. One of them is solid gold.
• The Case of the Missing Parade DragonThe night before the parade, a twenty-foot papier-mâché dragon vanished from its barn. Four clues. Four suspects.
• Schramm Woods at First LightA 31-acre island of old woods in the farm fields north of town, and a quiet loop as the birds wake up.