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.
Head to The West Woods anytime to play our new location-based game, Agents of Discovery, with missions and challenges to be placed monthly!
Explore the app now by downloading it on your smartphone using this QR code:
To play, just 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 month, so make sure to come back monthly during 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!
Locate all 19 caches along The Maple Highlands Trail Covered Bridge GEO Trail, then solve a word scramble puzzle, to earn a limited edition trackable GEO Coin.
Activity deadline: November 30, 2023
GEO Trail Passport
Print your own passport to get started!
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.
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
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
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
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
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