+TeamTardis Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 (edited) Hi Geo-Citizens, I have an idea for a cache hidden in a mini golf course in a fake sprinkler. Is this a bad idea? Edited June 16, 2010 by TeamTardis Quote Link to comment
+roziecakes Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 Do you mean gold or golf? Anyhoo, sometimes fake sprinklers can be a good idea unless they are near real sprinklers, because folks really don't like having their real sprinklers torn apart by folks looking for caches. And be sure to get permission! Quote Link to comment
+silksmybaby Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 I would be careful with this because families like to mini golf and I don't know if I would like to be golfing around a stranger wandering around looking suspicious and poking at the ground Quote Link to comment
+Jayman11 Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 Agreed, keep it away from real sprinklers for sure. Other than that it sounds like an interesting area to put a cache like that! Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 I would certainly think that if you could get permission to hide a cache in a mini-golf course, that you could do a whole lot better than the tired old fake sprinkler head cache! That would be an awesome place to get creative!! Quote Link to comment
+BBWolf+3Pigs Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 Wouldn't this run afoul of the "no commercial caches" rule? Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 Wouldn't this run afoul of the "no commercial caches" rule? yup - unless the owner was allowing a free round to Geocachers?? Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 I would be careful with this because families like to mini golf and I don't know if I would like to be golfing around a stranger wandering around looking suspicious and poking at the ground Right, because they know all the other folks golfing on the course. Wouldn't want to play around strangers. Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 Wouldn't this run afoul of the "no commercial caches" rule? yup - unless the owner was allowing a free round to Geocachers?? Nope - not if the cache listing does not promote the business. Quote Link to comment
+silksmybaby Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 I would be careful with this because families like to mini golf and I don't know if I would like to be golfing around a stranger wandering around looking suspicious and poking at the ground Right, because they know all the other folks golfing on the course. Wouldn't want to play around strangers. You know what I mean... Quote Link to comment
+BBWolf+3Pigs Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 Wouldn't this run afoul of the "no commercial caches" rule? yup - unless the owner was allowing a free round to Geocachers?? Nope - not if the cache listing does not promote the business. Most mini golf courses I've played on required an admission fee to get onto. Quote Link to comment
+Jayman11 Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 hmmm maybe they meant near the mini golf course. Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 hmmm maybe they meant near the mini golf course. Then why did he use the word, "in"? Quote Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 I found a cache on a mini course. You could walk by the pay booth, tell them you were geocaching, and they'd let you in, no charge. Some cute little bit of yard ornament - I no longer recall what exactly. That cache wouldn't be published today, with its "tell the ticket guy you're geocaching" language, as the commercial section today says any interaction with employees = commercial intent. Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 .....just as a side note...... Someday, I'd like to own a mini golf course and Geocaching has helped me dream up some fun twists on the course. Someday. Quote Link to comment
+TeamTardis Posted June 16, 2010 Author Share Posted June 16, 2010 Yes I meant in but your right maybe its not a good idea. And also I meant golf not gold...typing too quick for my eyes I guess. Quote Link to comment
+Coldgears Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 .....just as a side note...... Someday, I'd like to own a mini golf course and Geocaching has helped me dream up some fun twists on the course. Someday. As a huge fan of mini-golf I'd love to hear the twist! Quote Link to comment
+Walts Hunting Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 Most mini golf courses I've played on required an admission fee to get onto. They have caches in Yellowstone and I think you have to pay to get in there. They have left over virtuals in disneyland and to get in their takes a new mortgage. Having to pay to get in is not a bar to a cache site. That doesn't even take into account all the times you have to pay for parking when you cache. Quote Link to comment
+brslk Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 I have played mini-golf in about 7 states and 9 provinces. It's what the wife and I do... The first thing we look for while on vacation is where the nearest mini-golf course is. Quote Link to comment
Keystone Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 Most mini golf courses I've played on required an admission fee to get onto. They have caches in Yellowstone and I think you have to pay to get in there. They have left over virtuals in disneyland and to get in their takes a new mortgage. Having to pay to get in is not a bar to a cache site. That doesn't even take into account all the times you have to pay for parking when you cache. Please, let's not mislead the OP. Public Parks (whether national, regional, provincial, state or local) are not covered by the commercial caches guideline. The Disneyland virtuals are grandfathered and no cache of any type would be published inside a Disney property today. Even at Goofy's Mini-Golf Adventureland. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 Most mini golf courses I've played on required an admission fee to get onto. They have caches in Yellowstone and I think you have to pay to get in there. They have left over virtuals in disneyland and to get in their takes a new mortgage. Having to pay to get in is not a bar to a cache site. That doesn't even take into account all the times you have to pay for parking when you cache. We're going to Disneyworld at the end of August and I'm glad for the virutals there as I doubt that I'd have a chance to go for any of the physical caches in the area. We're staying in one of the Disney resort hotels and going straight to/from the airport and won't have a vehicle. Coincidentally, we're also refinancing our house but that has nothing to do with the vacation (a nice reduction in interest rates). There are lots of State parks around here that have day usage fees and pretty much all of them have caches (by permit only). One can often go real early or late in the day when the entrance booth is closed. At one park I told the person at the booth that I wanted to go in just to find a geocache and would be back out in 15 minutes or so and he didn't charge me. We also love putt-putt golf and always took for mini-golf places when on vacation. My six year old son loves it. During a long weekend vacation last year in Lancaster, PA we hit three different mini-golf places in two days. There is one near Strasburg, PA that was, by far, the best I"ve seen. It was very large and on the side of a heavily landscaped hill. There were several man-made and natural waterfalls and just a really pretty spot to spend some time. Unfortunately there wasn't a cache there. Quote Link to comment
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