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Category Archives: Milestones

Travel Bug® Travels – The Video

  Click here for the latest active geocache count on Geocaching.com (updates every 15 minutes) Let’s celebrate the crisscrossing global journey of thousands and thousands of Geocaching Travel Bugs. The Travel Bug Travels video shows the movements of each and every Travel Bug in Geocaching history as it moves around the world from geocache to geocache.  Can you find your Travel Bug? Watch and share this video to wow your friends with the worldwide phenomenon of Geocaching.   There’s much more to see and experience as we close in on the 2 millionth active geocache. Check out and share the Geocaching Celebrating [...]

2 Million Geocaches – The Infographic

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Celebrating Two Million Geocaches – List by Country

Click here for the latest active geocache count on Geocaching.com On February 4th, 2013 there were no active geocaches in just 7 of the 193 U.N. recognized member states: North Korea, Liberia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, the Solomon Islands, Central African Republic and Somalia.    

Tips on Developing EarthCaches in U.S. National Parks

Editor’s Note: The content in this article were first presented by Stuart West and Marcia Keener of the National Park Service during the 1st International EarthCache Mega-Event in Maine, USA on 2 September 2012.     By Stuart West and Marcia Keener of the National Park Service, Edited by Jenn Seva Are you interested in developing EarthCaches on lands managed by the National Park Service (NPS)?  Our friends at the NPS provided pointers so that more EarthCaches might be permitted. Remember that geocaches are prohibited on these lands until they are permitted. You must ask for permission first. There is no [...]

FTF 10 Years in the Making

Belterra, Brazil seeps back into the rainforest. It’s a small town on the wrong side of progress. It’s getting smaller. A few thousand people now call the community home. The population has fallen from more than 10,000 when Belterra was at its peak as a rubber production hub. At the beginning of 2012, a cache placed in Belterra in 2002, “Belterra” (GC3DF7), had never been found. The FTF (First to Find) on the cache remained unclaimed. The cache was without a log, without a DNF. No one logged even an attempt to find the cache for a decade… until this [...]


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