Geocaching is delightful because of the people who play it — adventure-seekers, makers, parents, astronauts and (sometimes) celebrities. Read their stories.
Cache In Trash Out® (CITO) is an environmental initiative supported by the geocaching community. Since 2002, CITO has helped preserve the natural beauty of cache-friendly spaces. In that time, there have been more than 502,000 logged attendances at more than 26,000 events where geocachers helped improve the outdoors.
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When NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover launched last July, it included a tracking code that you’ll soon be able to log. With the rover scheduled to land in Jezero Crater on Mars on February 18, 2021, we wanted to learn more about the first-ever interplanetary trackable. Longtime geocacher Dr. Francis McCubbin (mikbalt) is a member of NASA’s Mars 2020 SHERLOC instrument team who played a big role in this exciting geocaching milestone!
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“On a nice summer day, I was walking to a cache in the middle of a small urban woods…” We recently asked geocachers on Facebook to share some of their best geocaching stories and the responses did not disappoint! From encounters with wildlife to landing a job, here are some of the stories we enjoyed the most.
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Marcellus Cadd (atreides_78723) writes the blog Geocaching While Black. What started with finding a local cache turned into a passion for finding hidden treasures and writing about the experience of it all. This is a guest post written by Marcellus.
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This Geocache of the Week makes that hotline bling (but not late at night, there are time restrictions with this one).
PhoneBooth (GC87WW6) is never going to let you down if you need to phone a friend – it has a phone book full of them! CacheDweeb constructed this gadget cache out of a phone booth in Massachusetts. To the untrained eye it may look like an ancient artifact from a forgotten time, but to others it’s a high tech piece of equipment.
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