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.
Enjoying location-based gaming, or wanting to give it a shot? Play Agents of Discovery, with new missions and challenges placed every month and a half! Watch for Part 1 and Part 2 each season.
Download the free app to your smartphone (search your app store or scan the QR code below), create a free account, and then simply open the app while you’re at The West Woods and search for 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 will change each month and a half, so make sure you come back to this page (or follow us on social media) for information about new missions all year long.
The biggest reward is, of course, exploring one of your local parks and learning about its wild inhabitants, but you can also earn specific cool Geauga Park District swag listed below. We think that’s plenty of incentive — now why don’t you give it a try!
“GPD-Spring Part 1: The West Woods Discovery 2026”
Running April through mid-May
In the year 2026, we’re again offering you six different missions to complete — and with them, six reward items to claim! Once you’ve completed the current mission, snap a screenshot of your completion screen and head into The West Woods Nature Center (open daily 10 AM to 4 PM) to choose any single item from our 2026 Rewards Grab-Bag.
Assuming you also enjoyed that day’s mission, we’ll also collect your name and email address so we can notify you when new missions drop every month and a half.
Big Creek Park
N 41° 37.311′
W -081° 12.152′
Some trees might be down, but no need to frown.
They make a good place for this cache to be found.
If you found the winter cache and came here from there,
this one’s on the same long trail, you might be aware.
Now if you are askin’, best park near shelter Aspen.
Follow Blue Blazes to start where the Trillium parts.
Now step off the trail and you’ll surely prevail.
Expires June 1, 2027
Eldon Russell Park
N 41° 25.558′
W -81° 09.528′
Sticking with history, this park holds some mystery.
Not quite a trail, but we still walk these old rails.
It’s been some 100 years now since this spot’s seen a trolley.
Hope the search for this cache is not today’s folly!
With Blue Blazes in sight, and what a delight,
the cache should be near, and its shape, maybe a sphere…?
Expires April 1, 2027
N 41°30.096′
W -081°16.853′
A long-standing silo hints at old hay bales. Woodcocks and railroads highlight the main trails.
No more an old junction or farm fields that function, this wetland paradise can be muggy and a bit buggy.
But wildlife love it and birds soar above it, and no need to cry, this bridge will keep your feet dry.
No troll to fear here, thou the geocache is near. You might think to look just under foot.
Expires January 1, 2027
N 41°35.191′
W -081°04.630′
There are more than just stars in this lovely park of ours.
Take a stroll past Cygnus to get straight to business.
Take a right into the meadow and look down wherever you go.
One of these planks is not like the other,
It opens up like a kitchen cupboard.
Maybe not quite but you’ll do alright.
The cache is so good it looks just like wood.
Expires October 1, 2026
Bass Lake Preserve
N 41° 33.041′
W -81° 13.759′
Enjoy a short walk, but away from the dock.
No need for a paddle or time to dilly-daddle.
There’s no trail sign around to
find this spot off the ground.
Its own little forest, this tree is so great.
It boasts many tree trunks – in fact, it has eight.
I’d like to write more, but by now you have found it.
This park might seem small, but it’s the land that surrounds it.
Expires June 1, 2026
Click here to download an application for placing your own cache, munzee or letterbox in a park.
| Event | Location | Date | Time | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How to Geocache 101 | Big Creek Park | 05/31/2026 | 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Free |
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