This was one of the first branded Geocaching promotions. Each year from 2004 to 2007, Jeep had sponsored a contest, the Jeep 4×4 Geocaching Challenge, featuring a different series of special Jeep travel bugs. The travel bugs were released with no specific mission in mind, but every finder was entered into a drawing for an actual new Jeep.
There was a separate contest for photo entries for each Jeep travel bug series. In 2004, five thousand yellow Jeep Wrangler travel bugs were released, followed by five thousand white Jeep Wrangler Rubicon travel bugs in 2005, six thousand green Jeep Rescue concept vehicle travel bugs in 2006, and eight thousand red Jeep Commander travel bugs in 2007.
No doubt these Jeeps are hard to stumble upon today. I think over my years, I may have had all four (red, green, white and yellow) in my hands at one time or another. Unfortunately, many did not last long. For example, the “Copper Mountain (CO)” Green Jeep Travel Bug was released on August 1, 2006, and it does not look like a single geocacher discovered it. If you look at the TB page closely, the TB is now locked and not accepting any new log entries.
So what to do if you find this jeep’s trackable code? Find it, enter it below, and you’ll see.
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