Stay tuned for details about the new location-based game Agents of Discovery coming to The West Woods, with missions and challenges to be placed starting in April 2023!

Explore the app now by downloading it on your smartphone using this QR code:

To start playing in April, then, open the app while you’re at The West Woods and search 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 in this park will change each season, so make sure to come back all four seasons to play them all! Participants will not only explore the park and learn about its wild inhabitants, but they’ll be rewarded in prizes and elite leaderboard status…why not give it a shot!

Psst…! Registration for how-to programs led by Naturalist Trevor on April 1 will open for Geauga County residents on March 20 at 10 a.m., then out-of-county residents on March 27 at 10 a.m. under Programs & Events above (filter by program activity “Geocaching & location-based games”).

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

Fall 2022

Veterans Legacy Woods
N 41° 28.994
W -81° 11.122

This park has a great view and is still fairly new.
Still a bit wicked, a descriptor not undeserved, this park now honors all who have served.
To choose the right path, please reference the map.
The cache is held tight between red and white in a mighty old tree that still stands upright.

Expires January 1, 2024

Summer 2022

Burton Wetlands Nature Preserve
N 41° 26.601
W -81° 11.222

Though you walk on this kettle,
it’s not made of metal.
No way you can fail
heading northwest on this trail.
Was once a live cherry, but now to the contrary.
This cache can be found
four feet off the ground.
Like it or not, it’s in a tree knot.

Expires July 1, 2023

Spring 2022

Walter C. Best Wildlife Preserve
N 41° 33.216
W -81° 12.028

The trail is a big loop, but who gives a hoot?
‘Cause where you are bound, few trails can be found
and fish can’t be caught on unfinished knots.
This lake is too small to fish from a yacht.
Some rhymes hold no clues, but don’t get the blues. Just south of sunset would be a good bet.
No, the cache won’t be on the wet solid ground —
however, it will be found near the drive’s turnaround.

Expires April 1, 2023