Mar

Road Trip Geocaching Tool

I was moving from Northern California to Southern California and was doing the big 500 mile drive and thought – this is a great opportunity to find some geocaches along the way to make it a bit more fun.

First I had to set up my GPS with the caches along the route. Could not just load up all the caches in each region and needed to instead set up a “route”.

I went to Google Earth and created a route. I saved the file with a .KML extension so it could be imported into the geocaching website.

You can then run a query to show all geocaches along your route based on your needs. I set it up within 0.5 miles to the route so I would not make a big detour – had to get to the new location eventually! And here is the map with the caches on the route.

Ended up only finding 10 geocaches on the drive because we did the night drive, but it was still a fun break for a morning to geocache in the middle of nowhere!

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