Welcome to Quartzsite, a town with some colorful military and mining history! Every year, Silverheels puts together a tour for the Escapees Geocaching Birds of a Feather group. This WIG leverages some of the locations featured on her 2018 tour.
If you're here in January, be prepared for traffic and parking challenges! For this walking tour of a portion of Quartzsite, I recommend parking somewhere near the posted coordinates and walking. The six stages (including the final) of the Wherigo cartridge will take you just over a mile, round trip. It will help keep your Fitbit happy.
Four of the stages are along the north side of West Main Street. If you park near the posted coordinates, there will be no need to cross this busy street. Follow the streets - there's no need to cut through private property!
Download the cartridge from Wherigo.com here
About Wherigo
A Wherigo cache requires a Wherigo-enabled device. This is one of those times a smart phone is your best friend! The app is available on iPhone and Android ("WhereYouGo" on Android) and is native on some older Garmin units. First download the Wherigo/WhereYouGo application to your device, then download the cartridge you want to play using the link above.
Make sure you have uploaded the most recent version of the cartridge before you go. COs sometimes make changes to the cartridge and if you have an older version you may experience challenges.
While using the cartridge, if you are at a zone and there is a glitch of some kind, step 30 feet away and try to enter the zone again.
Save frequently during cartridge use.
Bring paper and pencil to jot down completion code (or take a screen shot) and to sign the log.
Unique to Wherigos, there are two places to log them once found. Post a find on geocaching.com as usual. Groundspeak created another web site just for Wherigos. There are no GC codes on the Wherigo site; you have to do a search by area. You can also log it there (but not required), and give the cache a rating of 1-5 stars, but you will need your completion code to do so. The cartridge will give you this code after the very last stop of the cartridge. Have a pencil and paper ready, or take a screen shot. Be ready as it is only given once!
Thanks to tammy_b for some of the ‘About’ text. She’s the author of a series of ‘neon’ wherigo cartridges, especially in Tucson. Highly recommended!
Welcome to downtown Quartzsite!