Did you know that you can use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (“geocaches” or “caches”) anywhere in the world? It’s a free, family-friendly, high-tech hide and seek! This outdoor treasure-hunting is even enjoyed right here in Geauga County, where naturalists hide a new cache each season for you to find in the parks.
Scroll down for this year’s ongoing caches and rules for placing your own game piece in the parks.
Enjoying location-based gaming, or wanting to give it a shot? Play Agents of Discovery, with new missions and challenges placed every month and a half in 2024! Watch for Part 1 and Part 2 each season.
Visit The West Woods and complete the new mission and show a screencap of your completion screen to Nature Center front desk staff (open daily 10 AM to 4:30 PM) to earn a cool green Geauga Park District reusable tote bag, then email that screencap to marketing@geaugaparkdistrict.org with your name and phone number for a chance to win one of three GIANT 62″ green Geauga Park District golf umbrellas! (April showers bring May flowers, after all!)
To play, download the free app to your smartphone using this QR code:
Then simply open the app while you’re at that month’s designated park and search for available missions. We’ll tell you which trails to walk, and as you approach each challenge, it will become available for you to play. Challenges will change each month and a half, so make sure you come back to this page (or follow us on social media) for information about new missions all year long.
Participants will not only explore the park and learn about its wild inhabitants, but also earn Park District-swag rewards and perhaps also elite leaderboard status…so why not give it a shot?
Troy Wetlands
N 41° 21.659
W –81° 08.568
This might seem like a rather small park, but it has that big-Nature spark. See if you can keep your feet dry while you give this new cache a try. The trails are not long, so there is no way to go wrong. This cache can be found gently laid on the ground.
Expires July 1, 2025
Modroo Preserve
N 41° 26.415
W –81° 21.807
Who really knew about wonderful Modroo? A great place for walks and to gather your thoughts. This meadow trail likely holds lots of memories, but please be warned that this park contains no amenities. Hiding a cache out in the open, this tip should be pretty easy, we’re hopin’. No more hints will be posted where this cache is now hosted. Find it this winter, or wait for spring; we just hope you have fun locating this thing!
Expires April 1, 2025
Whitlam Woods
N 41° 37.878
W –81° 11.440
We must confess, these woods can be a muddy mess. That’s why this one is hid upon a ridge. No need to seek down in the creek; this cache hangs out where two tree trunks did sprout. You’ve got it made, but if that’s too vague, if you want to prevail, search left of the trail.
Expires January 1, 2025
Observatory Park
N 41° 34.972
W -81° 04.940
This tree was made for Cachin’
And that’s just what it’ll do.
One of these days you’ll find it,
it’s just what you gotta do.
Take the Planetary Trail or alternate mowed
meadow edge to find this unique tree.
Definitely head toward the outer planets
to hasten your trip.
This is a fun little cache you won’t want to skip.
Expires July 1, 2024
The West Woods
N 41° 27.320
W -81° 18.268
Let’s try something new, a bit out of the blue.
It might seem a bore just sitting on the forest floor,
but this cache is locked up, and soon you will find
that a twist here and there will open it with time.
A clue you will read to find the right key.
Hope you had fun by the time you are done!
Expires January 1, 2025
Click here to download an application for placing your own cache, munzee or letterbox in a park.
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