/ Megan Twamley

Visit Mesa Autism Travel GeoTour

Visit Mesa Autism Travel GeoTour is a strategic collection of geocaches anchored at many of Mesa’s participating Certified Autism Centers and city parks — these hidden spots will get the whole family outside and moving! All ages and lifestyles, from outdoor adventurers to tech-lovers, will enjoy the thrill of searching while experiencing this wonderful city. Find five of these geocaches then visit the Mesa Visitor Center to collect a special keepsake! Collect all geocaches to earn the digital completion souvenir on your geocaching profile.

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/ Emily Woerly

Music, geocaching, and unexpected friendships—Interview with Bugsy Travels & The Ammo Boxes

Bugsy Travels & The Ammo Boxes is a cover band that takes well-known pop songs and re-writes the lyrics with a geocaching twist. It all started with playing together just for fun one evening and turned into a band that delights geocachers with fun, relatable lyrics. We spoke with them to find out what it’s like to create and perform music about geocaching adventures.

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/ Emily Woerly

Mesa’s Fresh Foodie Trail GeoTour

Explore Mesa, Arizona and surrounding agricultural communities through geocaching with the Mesa’s Fresh Foodie Trail GeoTour (GT49A). The GeoTour introduces geocachers to the culinary treasures of the Fresh Foodie Trail®.

Here, fresh experiences, a treasured heritage of family farms, and long-standing festivals make for lasting memories. Serving as a culinary gateway to Phoenix and Scottsdale, the neighboring farms in and around Mesa provide a bounty of seasonal goods for visitors to enjoy year-round.

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/ Cathy Hornback

Planetary Geology on Earth: Echo Amphitheater — Geocache of the Week

EarthCache
GC652YV
by hzoi
Difficulty:
2
Terrain:
1.5
Location:
New Mexico, United States
N 36° 21.580′ W 106° 31.716′

Today’s featured EarthCache takes us to New Mexico and Mars, as part of the Planetary Geology on Earth Series. New Mexico’s “Land of Enchantment” moniker is well deserved for its breathtaking beauty on a grand scale. The area features stunning desert landscapes and impressive geological features like tall sandstone hoodoos, volcanic calderas, and lava plugs. Add to that bubbling hot springs, magnificent deep river gorges, the world-renowned Carlsbad Caverns full of spectacular formations and the largest cave room in North America, and you’re sure to feel enchanted too.   

Today we feature another fascinating EarthCache as our Geocache of the Week, Planetary Geology on Earth: Echo Amphitheater (GC652YV).

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/ Geocaching HQ

I thought it was a geocache

How many times have you searched for a geocache, thinking you found it just to find that you’ve been duped? We asked geocachers on Facebook and Lackeys at HQ what sort of items tricked them into thinking they had found the cache, only to realize it really was just a…lawn sprinkler, for example. Read the funny “finds” below.

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