A recap of our fourth 2025 hiding theme: Blast from the past! ⏳

In 2025, we celebrated a major milestone—25 years of geocaching! To mark this special anniversary, we introduced a new hiding theme per quarter to celebrate geocaches published in 2025. Every three months, we featured geocaches from that quarter’s theme on the Geocaching Blog and social media.

For our fourth and final hiding theme of the year, each nomination helped us revisit memorable moments in geocaching. We struck retro gold with your ‘blast’tastic nominations and discovered caches that could make a highlight reel titled “geocaching’s greatest hits.”

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Echoes Beyond the Gate — Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GCAWZTF
by WVangler
Difficulty:
4
Terrain:
1.5
Location:
West Virginia, USA
N 39° 37.722’ W 079° 52.044’

Geocaching has a way of revealing the magical hidden layers of familiar places. Each step feels like the world is offering up a new secret. Often, geocachers report their discoveries of beautiful views or historic landmarks they didn’t know existed.

One such geocache, Echoes Beyond the Gate (GCAWZTF), is cleverly hidden in a unique feature of the West Virginia Botanic Garden, a peaceful sanctuary for wildlife and vibrant blooming flower species.

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Joey’s Cache — Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GC8Z57B
by MoDaRiMa
Difficulty:
2
Terrain:
2
Location:
New York, USA
N 40° 43.557’ W 073° 25.854’

Geocaches are more than just containers; they’re about outdoor adventure, exploration, and community. Sometimes they’re even the gift that keeps on giving.

Attached to a fence in New York is a creative gadget geocache published by MoDaRiMa as a thank you to another geocacher. If you’re on the fence about which cache to try next, may we suggest Joey’s Cache (GC8Z57B)?

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World Postcard Day wrap-up

We’ve officially signed, sealed, and delivered World Postcard Day!

This year, over 20,000 geocachers attended Events around the world to celebrate their shared love of postcards and adventure. We looked through every Event Cache gallery and were awestruck by the creative postcards, log sheets, and group photos.

We’re still seeing attended logs and postcards arrive, but here are some standout moments so far.

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Building community through passion: An interview with Micha and Karo of Rucksackabenteuer

Passion, creativity, and community spirit—these are the qualities that define Micha and Karolin, the geocaching power couple from Hamburg, Germany, better known as Rucksackabenteuer. What started as curiosity for geocaching in 2018 has since grown into an influential voice in the German geocaching community.

Read about Micha and Karo’s motivation to inspire others, build connection, champion creativity, and turn their passion into a powerful platform for community engagement.

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