Adventures in Geocaching

Geocaching is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called "geocaches" or "caches") anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container (usually a tupperware or ammo box) containing a logbook and "treasure," usually toys or trinkets of little value.

Geocaches are currently placed in over 100 countries around the world and on all seven continents, including Antarctica. This great free family friendly high-tech version of hide & seek, continues in Geauga Park District in 2010. Learn more at Geocaching.com.

Fall 2011

Geauga Park District celebrates its 50th anniversary with a special variation on letterboxing and geocaching that will take you to every park throughout the year.

This time, instead of a physical cache container, you’ll find a small sign with a letter posted at a representative feature of each park — grouped together by location to minimize driving. Use the geocache coordinates or the location clue to find the letter (don’t worry, looking at a park map is fair game), then collect all the letters to build a key phrase.

In the last quarter of the year, one of the parks will have a container with a phrase template. Enter your completed phrase for the chance to win a drawing at a special geocache program in the winter of 2012. Complete riddles must be returned to The West Woods Nature Center by January 31, 2012, or at the geocache event to be scheduled for February 2012.

Big Creek Park (Cache Box)
N 41° 37.271’
W 081° 12.479’
Shelter off Deep Woods Trail

Whitlam Woods
N 41° 37.893’
W 081° 11.362’
Staircase bench

Woodin Road Park
N 41° 36.334’
W 081° 12.025’
Hours sign

Observatory Park
N 41° 35.087’
W 081° 04.844’
Oberle Observatory

The Maple Highlands Trail
N 41° 34.245’
W 081° 10.350’
Claridon/Hambden Twp. line

This cache expires January 30th 2012.

Summer 2011

Geauga Park District celebrates its 50th anniversary with a special variation on letterboxing and geocaching that will take you to every park throughout the year.

This time, instead of a physical cache container, you’ll find a small sign with a letter posted at a representative feature of each park — grouped together by location to minimize driving. Use the geocache coordinates or the location clue to find the letter (don’t worry, looking at a park map is fair game), then collect all the letters to build a key phrase.

In the last quarter of the year, one of the parks will have a container with a phrase template. Enter your completed phrase for the chance to win a drawing at a special geocache program in the winter of 2012. Complete riddles must be returned to The West Woods Nature Center by January 31, 2012, or at the geocache event to be scheduled for February 2012.

Bessie Benner Metzenbaum Park
N 41° 30.601’
W 081° 21.633’
Observation Deck

Orchard Hills
N 41° 33.764’
W 081° 21.815’
Sledding Sign

Bass Lake
N 41° 33.011’
W 081° 13.688’
Brook Trout Sign

Walter C. Best Wildlife Preserve
N 41° 33.203’
W 081° 12.200’
Wildlife Blind

Sunnybrook Preserve
N 41° 31.778’
W 081° 18.014’
Wetland Overlook Bench

This cache expires January 30th 2012.

Spring 2011

Geauga Park District celebrates its 50th anniversary with a special variation on letterboxing and geocaching that will take you to every park throughout the year.

This time, instead of a physical cache container, you’ll find a small sign with a letter posted at a representative feature of each park — grouped together by location to minimize driving. Use the geocache coordinates or the location clue to find the letter (don’t worry, looking at a park map is fair game), then collect all the letters to build a key phrase.

In the last quarter of the year, one of the parks will have a container with a phrase template. Enter your completed phrase for the chance to win a drawing at a special geocache program in the winter of 2012. Complete riddles must be returned to The West Woods Nature Center by January 31, 2012, or at the geocache event to be scheduled for February 2012.

Eldon Russell Park
N 41° 25.302’
W 081° 09.452’
Bridge along River

Burton Wetlands
N 41° 26.628’
W 081° 10.606’
Lake Kelso Deck

Swine Creek Reservation
N 41° 26.384’
W 081° 01.764’
Sugarhouse

Headwaters Park
N 41° 30.506’
W 081° 05.890’
Boathouse

Chickagami Park
N 41° 22.931’
W 081° 04.253’
Lean-To B

This cache expires January 30, 2012.

Winter 2011

Geauga Park District celebrates its 50th anniversary with a special variation on letterboxing and geocaching that will take you to every park throughout the year.

This time, instead of a physical cache container, you’ll find a small sign with a letter posted at a representative feature of each park — grouped together by location to minimize driving. Use the geocache coordinates or the location clue to find the letter (don’t worry, looking at a park map is fair game), then collect all the letters to build a key phrase.

In the last quarter of the year, one of the parks will have a container with a phrase template. Enter your completed phrase for the chance to win a drawing at a special geocache program in the winter of 2012. Complete riddles must be returned to The West Woods Nature Center by January 31, 2012, or at the geocache event to be scheduled for February 2012.

Frohring Meadows
N 41° 24.801’
W 081° 21.841’
Dragonfly Trail Bluebird Box

Beartown Lakes Reservation 
N 41° 21.322’
W 081° 17.855’
Lower Bear Lake Fishing Pier

The Rookery 
N 41° 30.272’
W 081° 17.199’
Interurban Bridge

The West Woods 
N 41° 27.660’
W 081° 17.787’
Ansel’s Cave Boardwalk

This cache expires January 30, 2012.

Interested in placing your own cache in Geauga Park District? Click here to download a permission application.

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