WOW!!! We’re celebrating 10 years of geocaching at the zoo!
Skoki along with friends at the Assiniboine Park Zoo, the Manitoba Geocaching Association and several local schools are hosting an event at the Assiniboine Park Zoo on Saturday, September 29, 2018. Join us in the fun, that was started at the zoo in 2008, by our geocaching friends, Flotsom and Jetsom!
The event will begin in the zoo classroom (posted coordinates) with a brief introduction to geocaching, along with some tips and tricks of the game for beginners. Please feel free to sign the event log book as you check in, and pick up your game sheet. These will be located on a table in, or in front of, the zoo classroom (weather dependent.) The log book and game sheet will be available between 9:00 and 11:30AM.
Limited GPS units will be available for those who don't have one and would like to find out more about this fun and addictive family-friendly activity.
Several new caches will be unveiled and made available for finding throughout the Zoo area for this event. FTFs (“First-to-Find”) will be available for the event, so come early if that interests you. The zoo opens at 9:00AM and closes at 5:00PM. Feel free to stay after the event to find the rest of the caches, enjoy lunch at the Tundra Grill (or bring your own), and visit with the animals.
- Zoo opens and ten new caches are available for FTFs: 9:00 a.m.
- Geocaching Tips and Tricks for beginners: 9:30 to 10:00 a.m.
- Geocache Challenge: 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
- Event wrap-up and draw prizes: 11:30 a.m. at the zoo classroom
Admission or membership to the Assiniboine Park Zoo is required to participate in this event.
Your pre-registration fee will include your admission, and Zoo Members need not purchase tickets to participate. Proceeds from advance registration support Zoo education programming.
A special “Zoo Geocaching Event” admission price is now available. A limited number of discounted tickets are available online, and will be available until 8:59AM on September 29. Discounted tickets will not be available for purchase after opening on the 29th. All proceeds from online ticket purchases will go to Educational Programming at the zoo. Please visit:
https://www.assiniboineparkzoo.ca/zoo/home/learn-play/programs-for-adults
Please visit: http://www.assiniboinepark.ca/zoo for regular admission rates.
Please note: All current traditional zoo caches will be available until closing on Monday, September 3, 2018.