Geocaching at Fairy Stone State Park

What is Geocaching ?

Geocaching is a fun way to merge technology and outdoor exploration. Folks hide a cache, typically a small container with a log book, somewhere, and people use a GPS receiver or their phone to find it. When a cache is found, the finder goes to www.geocaching.com to log the visit, maybe upload a photo and read what others said about it. Participants visit that website also for lists of caches and coordinates for the GPS-based hunts.

How Does it Work?

Sign the log inside the cache with your name! Next take an item of your choice out of the container and replace the container where you found it!

Fairy Stone State Park has 21 geocaches. They range from simple quick grabs easily reached from a trail to challenging multi-caches that require collecting information at one site before moving on to the next. We also have 2 earth caches, which have no cache box; geocachers usually must log visits to this type of cache by providing information obtainable only by visiting the site.

For more information about Earth Caches visit www.earthcache.org

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