313 S. Locust St.
Greencastle, IN 46135
www.depauw.edu

All Field Trips are scheduled for Tuesday, June 27, 2006.  This is at the conclusion of the conference.

Downtown Indianapolis: So Easy to Do So Much

Bus Leaves DePauw 1:30 pm

Return to DePauw 9:00 pm

Cost per person:  $22.00

A revitalization of downtown Indianapolis put Museums, the Zoo, Canal Walk, Parks, shopping and hundreds of restaurants within a 10 block walking area. This self-guided tour provides you with maps, pamphlets and suggestions for an afternoon of adventure and fun in a clean, safe and thriving city.  A 1-hour bus ride through the Indiana heartland will allow +you to begin your journey at the White River State Park. Among the attractions along the Central Canal Walk are the Indianapolis Zoo, White River Gardens and Butterfly Exhibit, the NCAA hall of Champions, IMAX Theater and Indiana State Museum, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial, Old Washington Street Bridge and Sculpture in the Park and Circle Centre Shopping Mall. Downtown Indianapolis is also home to our professional athletic teams of:  The NFL Indianapolis Colts, Pacers Basketball and Indians Baseball. Restaurants are abundant in addition to a food court in Circle Center Mall. You may explore the city, have dinner at the location of your choice and return to the bus by 8:00 pm for your journey back to Greencastle. Some attractions are free but applicable fees for museums/zoo apply and dinner is on your own. You choose what to do. This is a great family event.

The Covered Bridges of Putnam County

Bus leaves 2:00 pm

Bus returns 5:30 pm

Snack Provided

Price per person: $ 35.00

Take a trip through yesteryear as we bus through the rural farmlands of Putnam County and visit a sampling of our county’s nine covered bridges. Learn about the legends of each covered bridge. Find out why they were built, how they were built and the materials used.  Dating back to the 1800’s, these bridges are a true hidden treasure. We’ll also stop along the way at the Keeton Elk Farm for a tour of their operation.  A bit of elk jerky might be a nice souvenir of your trip to Indiana. We’ll also stop at Harris Sugar Bush—an active maple syrup farm—for a tour of their forest, gardens and locally made maple syrup products.  This will prove to be a fun afternoon, leaving you with a true appreciation for Midwest living. You’ll discover why they call Indiana the Heartland.

Geology of Shades State Park

Bus Leaves 1:00 pm

Returns to DePauw 6:00pm

Snack Provided

Cost per person: $18.00 

This field trip will allow participants to explore the geomorphology and geology of one of Indiana’s regional state parks.  Wisconsin-aged glacial melt water carved deep into the region of Shades State Park to create excellent exposures of fossiliferous limy siltstones of the Mississippian Edwardsville Formation (Borden Group) and the Pennsylvanian Mansfield Sandstone along Sugar Creek and its tributaries.  Inverted waterfalls, seeps and springs, and large-scale joints are but a few of the geologic features found at Shades.  The park also contains one of the few remaining stands of virgin forest in Indiana.    

Cagles Mill Spillway, Cataract Lake

Bus leaves 1:30 pm

Returns to DePauw 5:00 pm

Snack provided

Cost per person:  $15.00

Rock walls that bound a few hundred-meter spillway cut in the Pennsylvanian Mansfield Sandstone expose a spectacular 3-D view of an in-filled crevasse splay.  The Pennsylvanian deltaic sands were cut by a distributary that became abandoned and in-filled first with swamp-derived organic material and later silts and sands.  This outcrop is featured in the Decade of North American Geology Field book and has been written about in numerous publications.  Sediments that overly the Pennsylvanian units at Cagles Mill form one of the most complete records of glacial sediment in Indiana.

Guided Exploration of DePauw University’s Nature Park

Leaves main campus 1:30 pm

Guided exploration ends approximately 3:30 pm

Snack provided

Cost per person:  $5.00

The DePauw University Nature Park consists of mid-successional woodlands and fields adjacent to Big Walnut Creek as well as ephemeral and permanent ponds.  The land acquired in 2003 through a gift, lease and purchase of nearly 500 acres.  Between 1917 and 1977 the Nature Park was the site of a limestone quarry.  In the remains the observant visitor can locate fossil crinoids, brachiopods and bryozoans in the rock.  The various trails take visitors through the bottom of the quarry and around its high wall, through the surrounding woodlands, along what were once the quarry’s rail line, and the banks of Big Walnut Creek.  Some DePauw faculty members and students involved in research at the Nature Park will take participants on a guided tour of some of the Nature Park’s distinguishing features highlighting the wildlife, plant life and improvements of infrastructure (Welcome Center, Environmental Field Station and planned Ethics Center).