Geocaching TEXAS Style

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD): Geocaching in Texas State Parks

Texas State Parks Geocache Challenge Coordinates

(Check with the park before your visit to make sure it will be open.)

Want to learn more?

• Attend a geocaching workshop. Visit our Events page to find one near you.
• Sign up for geocaching e-mail updates. Learn about special theme challenges, special event caches and more!
• Purchase a Texas State Park Pass. With the pass, you and your guests can enter any state park for free for one year! Purchase the pass at most state parks or call (512) 389-8900.
• Learn how to hide a geocache on state park lands. Download the Geocache Placements information sheet. You must get approval from a park's superintendent before placing a geocache in that park.
• Questions?  E-mail txgeo@tpwd.state.tx.us 

Introduction to Geocaching - Texas Parks and Wildilfe [Official]

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Texas Parks and Wildlife

Look for online resources like message boards, community geocache associations and Facebook groups.

• Visit the Learn section on Geocaching.com.
• Find a Geocaching 101 workshop in your area on our Events page.
• Join the Texas State Parks Geocache Challenge.
• Download guidelines for hiding a geocache on a TPWD property.
• Sign up for e-mail updates about geocaching.com.

 

Also visit the Texas Geocaching Association - Site News and Updates



Look for

Texas Geocaching Association (TXGA)

Updates and News such as:

• Cache of the Week
• Events
• Contests
• TXGA Store
• Forum
• TXGA Geocaching Education Events Calendar

Geocaching.com Presents: LOST Places - GERMANY 'Stadt im Wald'

Upon discovering this Geocaching YouTube video, I felt reanimated because a few months ago I decided to start trying to learn the German language.  Although, to be honest it has been slow going since I am attempting to teach myself German through various online lessons, etc.  Even though I still have a lot of Deutsch lernen to do, I was happy to be able to understand a few words such as:

• Stadt [shtat] = City
• Wald [valt] = Forest

So then, 'Stadt im Wald' in English means 'City in the Forest'.

• mein Name ist (insert your name here) [miyn nahmuh ist] = My name is ...
• und mein Geocaching Name ist ... = and my geocaching name is ...
• alten Plätze [alten pletsuh] = old places
• klein [kliyn] = small
• The word 'Geocaching' [GEE-oh-cashing] is a no brainer.

Anyways, maybe this will inspire some of you to learn another language, and expand your Geocaching territory!

Check out the German 'Word of the Day' app on the right side of this blog. -->

Note:  This video is spoken entirely in German. Click the CC button for English or German subtitles.



About this video:

 

Watch the first Geocaching.com Presents video from Germany. Join a group of German geocachers as they explore a Lost Place cache. Lost Place Caches takes geocachers to a location that has been all but forgotten by time. Follow a group of geocachers as they search an abandoned Soviet military base. It's located in what used to be East Germany.

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Sehe das erste "Geocaching.com Presents" Video aus Deutschland. Schließ dich der Gruppe von deutschen Geocachern an, als sie einen Lost Place, der sie zur einer ehemaligen sowjetischen Militärbasis führt, erforschen.

 

Geocache Location of reference:

Brandenburg, Germany

N 53°03  E 013° 22

(“Stadt im Wald” GC17K3A GEOCACHE OF THE WEEK – June 6, 2011)

 

This Geocache looks like so much freakin’ fun!   :D 

If you are planning a VaCachen, you may also want to read these posts:

• Planning Your Next VaCachen
• 5 Reasons to Geocache Around the World
• I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For ... Ireland's Best Caches
• Vaya geocaching en Chile!

UPDATE:

Sadly, I have to report that this popular Multi-Cache is no longer.  After the demolition of parts of the site, damage allegedly caused by geocachers, and too many visitors in the late evening hours, the final access point has been sealed forever by the forester.  The owner of the cache (hornesia caches) has terminated the cache.
"City in the forest (GC17K3A) was undoubtedly one of the most famous German Lost Places caches. Was similar to known really just "The Ruins of prow" which was sent to the archive forever also a few weeks ago."

R.I.P. Stadt im Wald

Never fear!  There are still thousands of geocaches to find throughout Germany and Europe.

Geocaching in Deutschland Geocaching.de - Die deutschsprachige Informationsplattform über das Hobby Geocaching in Deutschland.  (The German-language platform for information on the hobby of geocaching in Germany.)

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For ... Ireland's Best Caches

Geocaching Ireland Links:

www.geocaching.com "Ireland - Best Caches (shared, public)"

Geocaching Ireland @ www.geocachingireland.com

JoeVlogsTV's channel (Irishman, vlogger, geocaching enthusiast)

trackable Geocaching Ireland coin

from Geocaching Ireland (www.geocachingireland.ie)

"To Whom It May Concern" by The Travel Bugs - Music 4 Geocaching

Very funny video about the invasion of geocachers from the planet Gee-och-ka-ching!

by SteveWeeksMusic / www.thegeocachers.com, posted on www.youtube.com

"www.thegeocachers.com -
After 3 years of filming in multiple locations around the globe with an all-star cast and a budget of over $300 million, the latest music video by The Travel Bugs for their hit song "To Whom It May Concern" is complete!

The song, from their CD "Found It!", chronicles the woes of a certain Mr. Mug L. Guy and his growing concerns about the strange people he sees wandering around the fields.

If you like Geocaching and music (and big budget Hollywood productions), this video is dedicated to you.

Happy Geocaching!
www.thegeocachers.com"