Geocaching & Location-Based Games

High-Tech Hide & Seek Set your coordinates to fun

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.

App-Based Gaming Agents of Discovery

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.

 

REWARD ANNOUNCEMENT: MID-FEB – MARCH 2024

Visit Swine Creek Reservation and complete the new Maple Madness mission (published February 21 through March 31) to earn a chance at winning one of five pints of maple syrup (produced in the park where you just played Agents)! To enter, just take a picture (“screencap”) of your completion screen and email it to marketing@geaugaparkdistrict.org with your name and phone number.

 

HOW TO PLAY

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?

What to find Seasonal Caches

Winter 2024

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

 

Fall 2023

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

 

Summer 2023

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

 

Spring 2023

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

 

Winter 2023

Sunnybrook Preserve
N 41° 31.860
W -81° 18.262

Here in these woods, we hid some geocache goods. Just down the trail and over the brook, you’ll find a dead stump that’s worth a good look. Your trail choice is great since it’s a big figure eight. Walk long or walk short and soon you’ll report, a new cache discovered much like many others.

Expires April 1, 2024

Want to strike out on your own? Place Your Own Cache