Hiding Geocaches

Take your geocaching to the next level and hide one of your very own. Use the Geocaching.com planning map and more to create the next great geocache.

As well as finding caches, geocachers hide own caches for others to find. Read our step by step guide on making a geocache with tips on hiding your cache.

Do you want to hide a cache for others to find? Here's how to get started the right way. Provide a great Geocaching experience for other cachers.

Just like in real estate or retail sales, location is everything when it comes to placing a geocache. After you select a container, figure out where to put it — or sometimes you find a perfect hiding place and then select an appropriate container to go with it.

Actually there is no perfect moment for your first own geocache. Cachers do not even need to hide an own geocache, but most people want to give something back to the community. It is very useful to gain as much experience in seeking geocaches as possible.

So, have you ever tried to find a cache only to discover that it is located inside the Madison offices of the Wisconsin DNR? No? How about one under the steps of the Brown County Jail? Not there either?

Great tips on how to hide a geocache for the beginning geocacher.

Here is something to help you meet the Geochallenge this month -- a Geocaching Container Sale and a few tips for hiding a geocache!

Hide a geocache and introduce other families to your favorite places, show your kids the value of giving back and create an outdoor adventure.

So you've found some geocaches and you've uncovered a great location to hide a geocache of your own. There are no rules regarding how many caches you must have found before placing a cache. In fact, you need never have found a single cache before hiding one.

Tried it and loved it. Now is your chance to hide caches in your woods and share the love with your friends and family.

Have you ever found a cache that promoted local businesses? How about one exhorting you to donate to a charity, support a political cause, or pray for a sick person? Well, you should understand that all of these represent a violation of the guidelines.

The relatively new sport of Geocaching involves using a GPS to locate a hidden container (a cache), and signing the log book inside. Sounds simple, right? Wrong.

Hiding your first geocache but not sure what to do, or where to put it? Read here for tips and help!

How to Create and Hide a Geocache. Geocaching is a relatively new, family-friendly hobby where participants use GPS technology to seek geocaches hidden by fellow geocachers. At its heart is creating and hiding geocaches.

Geocaching is a treasure hunting game where you use a GPS to hide and seek containers with other participants in the activity. Geocaching.com is the listing service for geocaches around the world.

I recently attended a the Berkshire Geobash #3 Mega-Event in Massachusetts and came across one of the most devious hides I’ve ever seen.

Hiding your first geocache can be a pretty exciting thing, but it isn’t as simple as just stuffing a tupperware container under a log and calling it a day. There are plenty of things you need to consider, and geocaching.com recently released reworked their Hiding a Geocache page with some fantastic information designed to help new geocachers hide caches successfully and responsibly.

Geocaching HQ - how to hide your cache.

You’ve found them, seen them in blog posts, heard about them from other geocachers, and see the load of Favorite Points next to their names. What are they?

Most of you probably realize that, as geocachers, we play our game at the pleasure of property owners and land managers. Through the hard work of many people, most parks and other public property in Wisconsin are open to geocaching, and, in fact, many park systems actively welcome us to their properties. We need to be careful, however, to retain that welcome by hiding our caches in a way that is respectful to those properties.

It's great that you're thinking of hiding a geocache! We hope that you'll find our advice on this page useful. We advise that, before making your first hide, you find a variety of different geocaches in your area. This will enable you to gain an understanding of what merits a good, and sensible, geocache hide. It's hard to put a number on it, but around 100 geocache finds should provide you with this understanding.

Placing a traditional under a rock is one thing. But why not make the hunt a new challenge by changing the cache type to a mystery? Because that cache type offers endless possibilities. Here are some very cool ideas!

Placing a Geocache A review of the Guidelines and more By mmacgown Considerations: Location.

Tips to help you choose where to hide your cache.

Geocache hiding tips.