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CITO 2019
/ Janelle

Cache In Trash Out® (CITO) announcement for 2019

CITO 2019 Season 1
CITO 2019 Season 1

All good cachers go geocaching, what do great cachers do?
Cachers Improve The Outdoors!

This year, Cache In Trash Out® (CITO) souvenir moments will extend from just one week, twice a year, to two entire seasons! That’s right earth-lovin’ geocachers, this year’s CITO dates are:

CITO 2019, Season 1

Friday, March 1 through Friday, May 31, 2019
That includes all of March, April, and May!

CITO 2019, Season 2

Sunday, September 1 through Saturday, November 30, 2019
That includes all of September, October, and November! Continue reading →

/ Brigitte

19 Geocaching New Year’s Resolutions for 2019

The year is now 2019. You probably know that. If not, well, let us be the first to wish you a Happy New Year! And what’s a new year, without a few new goals? We’ve collected 19 New Year’s resolutions for geocachers in 2019. Everyone’s resolution is different, but we bet there’s at least one for you. We hope this list inspires you to push yourself to explore more, see new locations, meet new people, and of course, find more geocaches!

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/ Brigitte

Happy Holidays from Geocaching HQ!

This year we became Official Space Explorers during Planetary Pursuit, traversed forests, deserts, oceans, and up to the mountaintops to discover beings never before known to man during Hidden Creatures, and found ourselves through our geocaching personalities. But out of all of the amazing things that happened this year, it’s the simplest thing that still makes us all warm and fuzzy inside: the smile that happens when another geocache is found. Happy Holidays from all of us at Geocaching HQ!

Share your favorite moments of 2018 in the comments!

/ Martin Kerstein

Geocaching country souvenir: the United States of America

USA Geocaching country souvenir
USA Geocaching country souvenir

The United States of America — the birthplace of geocaching.

At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2) of diverse geography, the United States has the most ecoregions out of any country in the world, making it an amazing playground for geocaching.

From the Atlantic seaboard, across the prairies of the Great Plains, to the Cascade mountain range in the Pacific Northwest, there are lots of unique geocaching adventures to discover.

While it is true that the United States is home to some of the oldest active geocaches that are still around, such as the oldest Traditional, Multi-Cache, as well as the oldest still existing cache with a three-digit GC code, there are plenty of other amazing caching adventures waiting for you from sea to shining sea.

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