Checkpoint #19 “B W MB” — where the photo was taken

Grand Strand Grit · Adventure Ruck 2026 · written 08:20 Sat 3 Oct

Verdict: New Town Bark Park, 200 Collins St — the city dog park at the north end of Collins St where it meets Broadway, west side, between a small cemetery and Withers Swash Park. Pin 33.6903, -78.8932. The rack stands on the grass just outside the dog-park fence; look for the inverted-U rack with the BikeWalkMB cut-out and read the number posted there.
Walk there (Google Maps) Back to the route

In the plan it comes right after #5 Yellow & Blue (904 Chester St) and before #15 Blue E (210 3rd Ave S): 0.9 mi then 0.6 mi.

1. The clue photo

Clue photo for #19
Organisers' photo. Circled: a stainless inverted-U bike rack with the BikeWalkMB logo and QR code, on a small concrete pad in grass.
What is actually in the frame

2. The candidates

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New Town Bark Park, 200 Collins St (city dog park, opened Dec 2022) City park (city racks). Two fenced pens. Reviews: “plenty of shade thanks to its many trees”, benches, hydrant-style props. Sits in the Withers Swash pine woods. 0.6 mi from #15 Blue E on the same leg of the course. No street-level photo of the rack itself found online; the aerial below predates the 2022 build.
Bill Wingard GSHS puppy playground, 21st Ave N at Mr Joe White Ave (our earlier guess) It is a fenced dog area and the initials fit “B W”. It belongs to the Humane Society shelter, not the city, so no city rack. The aerial shows a bare, open field with one small tree inside the pen and no pine stand. 2.1 mi off the course.
Barc Park South, Market Common City dog park with pines. That is already #9 Ruff Ruff (“Center S” = Barc Park South). Two checkpoints at one park is unlikely for a find-the-spot puzzle.
Barc Park North, 62nd Ave N at the YMCA City dog park, tree cover. Far north of everything else on the sheet; the organisers kept 2026 south of 48th Ave N.
A trail-side rack (Scott's theory) City racks do stand at trailheads and beach accesses. A trail rack sits on or beside the path; this one is on plain grass hard against a fence. The hydrant-in-a-lawn and the double fence are dog-park features, not trail features. And the nearest city trail system is the Withers Swash Park loop, which is the same block as New Town Bark Park, so the trail theory lands at the same corner.

3. Where it is

Satellite view of the north end of Collins St at Broadway
North end of Collins St. Broadway runs along the top; the park lot is the wooded parcel west of Collins St with a parking spur, with the small cemetery immediately south of it and Withers Swash Park beyond. The image predates the Dec 2022 build, so the pens are not yet drawn in.
Satellite view of Bill Wingard park
For comparison, the Bill Wingard pen on 21st Ave N: open bare field, one tree, no pine stand, no bench or second pen. It does not match the photo.

4. On the ground

Sources: City of Myrtle Beach Bark Parks page (New Town Bark Park, 200 Collins St, opened Dec 2022, separate small/large dog areas); SC Energy Office success story on the BikeWalkMB rack program (50 racks, city locations); barkparkfinder and Yelp listings (“between a cemetery and Withers Swash Park”, “plenty of shade”, benches); WMBF (“3rd Ave S and Collins St” area); OpenStreetMap (Collins St meets Broadway at 33.6908, -78.8928; cemetery at 33.6896, -78.8932); Esri World Imagery.