Geocaching

Countywide Geocaching Project

What you can do in this project:

  • Learn the fundamentals of geocaching and equipment
  • Learn guidelines and rules of geocaching
  • Explore outdoors looking for geocaches
  • Build your own geocaches

Grades: 3-12

Cost: TBD.

Equipment Needed: TBD.

Project Add Deadline: TBA.

Location: Various Locations throughout Ozaukee County & local area beyond. Project leader will provide meeting locations.

2023-2024 Dates:

  • November 5, 2023, 1:00 pm., location TBA.
    • Go geocaching, plant a tracking bug
  • January 2, 2024, 6:30 pm., location TBA. (indoors)
    • Make swag and geocaching containers, Geocaching 101 education from Wisconsin Geocaching Association
  • February 17, 2024, 11:00 am., Cedarburg Public Library
    • Geocaching puzzles
  • March 3, 2024, 1:00 pm., location TBA.
    • Go geocaching at the sites we did the puzzles for at the previous meeting.
  • April 7, 2023, 1:00 pm., Tendick County Park in Saukville.
    • Cache In, Trash Out (CITO)
    • Washington County 4-H Geocaching youth will be invited to participate. Ozaukee County 4-H members to teach them about geocaching while doing an earth-day theme park clean-up project.
  • May 18, 2024, Time TBA., Harrington Beach at Harrington State Park, Belgium
    • WGA picnic and geocaching
  • June 2, 2024, 1:00 pm., Old Plank Trail (near Sheboygan)
  • July 9, 2024, 6:00 pm., Location TBD. – Project members choice of where to go geocaching

Record Books: Project youth should send photo of record book pages to project leader, Jessica, after county fair, and she will make comments and email back to youth. Youth can then print and put pages into record book before turning in to your general leader.

For more information, please contact:

Jessica Heller   414-218-4777  heller_jl@yahoo.com

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