Celebrate International EarthCache Day 2024!

Since 2004, EarthCaches have encouraged geocachers to explore and celebrate the extraordinary geologic features of our planet, like the Torres del Paine in Chile. This towering laccolith is as breathtaking as it is fascinating.

Earn the International EarthCache Day 2024 souvenir by visiting any EarthCache and completing the logging requirements from Friday, October 11 through Sunday, October 13, 2024. Continue reading →

4 handjes – Geocache of the Week

Traditional
GC9KEDV
by prulleke2
Difficulty:
3
Terrain:
1.5
Location:
Netherlands
N 51° 41.036 E 004° 56.553

Have you ever needed a helping hand while geocaching? Well, this cache requires one!

4 handjes (GC9KEDV) has all the hallmarks of a fun and interesting geocache: field puzzles, TOTTs, and, most importantly, teamwork.

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If you host it, they will come: Planning your first geocaching Event

2025 marks the 25th anniversary of geocaching. We’re excited to share this milestone with the global geocaching community through Community Celebration Events!

But what’s the secret to a spectacular geocaching Event? We asked the co-hosts of Maine’s second-longest running Event, Get Useless In Eustis (GUIE), for their advice.

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Geocache of the Week Flashback Edition: Taipei Beimen Post Office / 臺北北門郵局

Letterbox Hybrid
GC3NXZV
by Kakoui
Difficulty:
1
Terrain:
1.5
Location:
Taipei, Taiwan
N 25° 02.820 E 121° 30.668

You’ve got mail!

This Geocache Of The Week blog is a love letter to a fantastic Letterbox Hybrid geocache hidden in the last (or maybe first) place anyone would think to look—inside a post office! And it’s not just any post office, it’s the historic Taipei Beimen Post Office in Taiwan.

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