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.
Print your own GEO Trail Passport from the link below to enjoy our newest geocaching adventure — The Maple Highlands Trail Covered Bridge GEO Trail — complete with a limited edition trackable GEO Coin that you can earn by locating all 19 caches and solving a word scramble puzzle!
GEO Trail Passport (printable)
Cache #1
North Bridge
N 41° 34.365 W 81° 11.751
Cache #2
Cinderella
N 41° 34.657 W 81° 11.166
Cache #3
Touche
N 41° 34.369 W 81° 11.097
Cache #4
Sign of the Times
N 41° 34.249 W 81° 10.352
Cache #5
Taylor Wells Rd. Bridge
N 41° 33.723 W 81° 09.399
Cache #6
Cuyahoga River Bridge
N 41° 33.667 W 81° 09.284
Cache #7
Pickle
N 41° 33.669 W 81° 08.492
Cache #8
High Point
N 41° 33.475 W 81° 07.708
Cache #9
Time Out
N 41° 33.058 W 81° 07.225
Cache #10
“En Garde”
N 41° 32.412 W 81° 06.776
Cache #11
Many Trunks
N 41° 31.500 W 81° 06.350
Cache #12
Stick or Stake
N 41° 30.981 W 81° 06.105
Cache #13
Do You Feel Lucky?
N 41° 30.356 W 81° 06.101
Cache #14
It Used to Be a Grand View
N 41° 30.064 W 81° 06.190
Cache #15
Reel Me In
N 41° 29.680 W 81° 06.188
Cache #16
Perfect Fit
N 41° 29.518 W 81° 06.060
Cache #17
Tare Creek Bridge
N 41° 28.829 W 81° 05.610
Cache #18
Fits Like a Glove
N 41° 28.053 W 81° 04.773
Cache #19
Way Down South
N 41° 27.967 W 81° 04.687
For more info and clues on individual caches, click the title of each cache for its description on geocaching.com.
Eldon Russell Park
N 41° 25.290
W -81° 09.819
You can access this cache off the main drive from two different trails:
the Duane Ferris Trail or the Eldon Russell Nature Trail.
Along the Duane Ferris Trail you’ll find
a stand of tall white pines
Planted in rows that
may confuse you at times.
This cache is in this place you see,
but it is not found in a pine tree.
Expires April 1, 2022
The Rookery
Part A (multicache)
N 41° 30.329
W -81° 17.299
Where the past remains, but there are no trains,
No tickets needed to take a seat,
Just take a moment to rest your feet.
These wooden chairs aren’t made of spruce. You may need to look under a caboose.
There’s one more stop that can be found; somewhere off these tracks you’re bound.
Expires January 1, 2022
Big Creek Park
N 41° 37.108
W -81° 12.203
Start from the Deep Woods, Meyer Center, or Ruth Kennan Trail parking lot. A triangle of trails box in this cache. Falling water and tree woods are clues to their names. The other is blazed in blue and just a mere 1,400 miles long. Don’t look down or towards the sky; this cache is only yay high. It rests within arm’s reach in the crook of a multi-trunked tree.
Expires October 1, 2021
Whitlam Woods
N 41° 37.897
W -81° 11.363
Two trails you’ll need beneath your feet to find this tiny cache you seek. With step and stair, one travels down a valley where a bridge is found. No need to climb back up again; just make sure not to bump your head.
Expires July 1, 2021
South Newbury Union Chapel
15829 Ravenna Rd, Burton, OH 44021
N 41° 26.296
W -81° 12.341
From the road, pull into Union Chapel’s gravel driveway. After about 200 feet, you’ll find a gravel parking lot behind a row of trees. There is room for about five or six cars in the lot. (Please keep to the gravel path and don’t park on the grass; you’ll probably become stuck in the mud!) To find the geocache, head east from the parking lot along the mowed path. You’ll pass a large, wooden bat colony house. Keep following the mowed path through a thorny thicket until you reach a clearing. The geocache is concealed beneath an old cherry log.
Expires April 1, 2021
Click here to download an application for placing your own cache, munzee or letterbox in a park.
| Event | Location | Date | Time | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scout Day: Wolf Cub Scouts "Finding Your Way" | Big Creek Park | 05/15/2021 | 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Free |
| Adventure Day Camp at Affelder House (Youth entering grades 5-7) | The West Woods | 06/07/2021 | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm | $150.00 |
| Adventure Day Camp at Affelder House (Youth entering grades 8-10) | The West Woods | 06/14/2021 | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm | $150.00 |
| Adventure Day Camp at Affelder House (Youth entering grades 5-7) | The West Woods | 06/28/2021 | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm | $150.00 |
| Park Explorer Adventure Day Camp (Youth entering grades 5-7) | The West Woods | 07/12/2021 | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm | $150.00 |
| Park Explorer Adventure Day Camp (Youth entering grades 8-10) | The West Woods | 07/19/2021 | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm | $150.00 |
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