Park Department Programs

[RangerKim]

I will be teaching a class to Park Rangers from all over the country on developing a Geocache program for their park departments, at the North Carolina Park Ranger Training Institute in Jan 2006. I am looking for other park departments to share their policies and procedures for enforcing them. The more examples I have the better I will be able to encourage other departments to welcome our sport into their Parks. Thank you for your help Rangerkim@aol.com

Edited November 25, 2005 by RangerKim

[+RideHrs]

Thank you for doing this and being supportive. Hope you get some good suggestions - thought aboutlooking on web sites?? I've found a few examples of policy of USFS sites.

[Pokagon Nature Center]

Ranger Kim,

 

Here's our Indiana DNR policy: IDNR Policy and the permit: IDNR permit.

 

Many parks have used them in environmental interpretation to educate park visitors to certain aspects of their cultural or natural history. We have one here at Pokagon State Park that teaches the Civilian Conservation Corp history in the park. It can be visited at: Great Pokagon Legacy Multi As far as we know, it's the first of its kind in the Indiana State Parks.

 

Pokagon Nature Center

[+Airmapper]

Is this the kind of info you are looking for?

 

Click here.

 

This is a policy from the Daniel Boone National Forest. I believe it was made in cooperation with the GEOcachers of KentuckY (GEOKY) See sig line for link.

[+RichardMoore]

I am a geocaching volunteer for the Cleveland Metroparks.

Carly Martin, a naturalist with the CMP, is also their Geocaching Coordinator. She has advised park managers throughout the country (and in other countries) on setting up geocaching programs.

You can contact her at Geocaching@clevelandmetroparks.com and I'm sure she'll be glad to help.

[+briansnat]

Here is the policy for PA's Dept of Conservation and Natural resources.

 

Arkansas State Park's policy can be found here (I personally think its one of the better ones).

Edited November 25, 2005 by briansnat

[Team Misguided]

Here is the link to the Washington State Geocaching Assoc. page on State Park policies. Please note that the WA state parks have not officially adopted this policy, it's still grinding it's way through the system.

 

In my opinion, on thing you should stress is that geocachers are the type of people that parks should want to have using their lands. The best geocaching policy is one that is simple to follow and easy for the park rangers to enforce.

[+robert]

Maryland park guidelines. Hope it helps, feel free to send me an email if you have questions.

 

edit: adding to what Team Misguided said, you might want to have a bunch of the brochures from Geocacher-U.

 

Edited November 26, 2005 by robert

[+GEO.JOE]

Here is Geocaching polices from all over the US this is the best source of caching policies I have seen.

Geo.JOE

[+huskerrich2000]

our reveiwer in nebraska has policies on her homepage available, look in the nebraska regional forum, she has them posted at the top of the page for ne game & parks, and natural resource districts