KristinCachin'

Thank you all again for so much help! I'm going to talk with people from a local geocaching league to see about at least a huge chunk of this trail, what we need to do to make cache official - and then start in drafting a Star-Spangled Series of geocaches (or something along those lines). We'll be brainstorming ideas for cache in the next few weeks and I'll report in to get some feedback. You guys have given me a lot of great ideas to get me going. Keep sending ideas if you have them. You're helping to make a huge series really successful (I hope ). Have a great weekend, everyone.

Wow!! Thanks for all the great information, you guys Things like the semantics in question are very important, as are all the types of trail (power trail, etc.) you mention. Knowschad got it right, by the way, - we're looking at doing something like this for the Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail, perhaps in tandem with local geocaching groups, tourism agencies, etc.; we're in early planning stages. I can't promise anything! The area covers about 290 miles, some of which are water trails, in Maryland, DC and Virginia. I understand there are caches in many of the areas the Trail covers, so learning about "owning" an area is also really important; we don't want to step on anyones toes! Maybe we can work with these people. We get around the National Parks prohibitions because National Historic Trails partner with sites along an historic route. So, the places we hope to place (or maybe adopt or otherwise involve) cache won't necessarily be NPS land. We'll see... . Thanks, also, for suggestions of places to see how groups or series of cache have been successfully laid-out. The Alleghany example seems really well put-together. That's the only suggestion I've looked at just yet, but will follow up on the others today. Do you ever look at maps, or lists of coordinates for cache series? For example, if a geocaching booklet were placed at a Trail site, would you pick that up? Or is this and other geocaching websites the right venue to connect to people? Thanks again for all your help!! If you're interested in what I'm doing with the Trail, you can always check out my blog (www.starspangledbannerblogger.wordpress.com), or check out the NPS' Trail site (www.nps.gov/stsp).

Hi everyone, I'm brand new to geocaching, but completely love the idea and can't wait to get started. I've learned about it for my job, which has to do with National History Trail planning. My office is considering working with sites (museums, recreation locations, etc.) to create a geocache trail that coinsides with a history trail and we're wondering if anyone has experience with this that could give some advice. Again, I'm brand new to this - any advice you have about setting up such a project is helpful: what sorts of maps or information do you prefer, are there examples that it would be helpful to check out, what's the best way to reach geocaching communities, what are some ideas for coins or other tokens for completing the trail, etc. I look forward to reading all responses. Thanks for your help!! - Kristin

Hi all, I'm brand new to this so I'm lurking at the moment, taking it all in. I had no idea how huge this is! I can't wait to get going