Welcome to the Cape Canaveral National Cemetery for Veterans. This cache is ONLY available from sun up to sun down.
The new 318-acre cemetery in Mims, Florida, will serve the burial needs of more than 163,000 Veterans in the cemetery's service area for the next 100 years.
Cape Canaveral National Cemetery was dedicated on November 20, 2015. The first burial took place on January 12, 2016.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) purchased the land in July 2012 for $2.1 million.
The initial phase of construction provides approximately 17,000 gravesites and accommodates both casket and cremation interments. In addition to gravesites and columbaria, the cemetery includes other features such as a front entrance on U.S. Route 1, a public information center with an electronic gravesite locator and restrooms, an administration building, a maintenance building, a flag pole assembly area, a memorial wall with ossuary and walkway, and committal shelters. Other cemetery infrastructure features include roads, landscaping, utilities, and irrigation.
When doing this virtual reward please abide by all rules and be respectful of the graves.
To claim your smiley on this cache you need to drive to the back of the cemetery where you will find burial section #14. Respectfully find the tombstone of the Marine that was born on April 15th, 2000 the same year Geocaching was born. Email us the name of this Marine as well as posting a photo on the cache page of you standing at the flags across the parking lot from the grave. No email and no photo will result in your log being deleted.
Virtual Rewards 4.0 - 2024-2025
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between January 17, 2024 and January 17, 2025. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards 4.0 on the Geocaching Blog.