Top 100 Favorited US Caches

[+Ecylram]

The top 100 most favorited caches in the US:

Rank / Code / Cache

1 GC1169 Mission 9: Tunnel of Light

2 GCGV0P Original Stash Tribute Plaque

3 GCK25B Groundspeak Headquarters

4 GCE02C VIEW CARRE '

5 GC30 Mingo

6 GCW6EM DR. Who.

7 GCK12J Last stop for a weary traveler

8 GC729A Welcome to Las Vegas

9 GCEB2 The view of an Honest Man

10 GC10FB Magic Kingdom

11 GC92 Un-Original Stash

12 GC28 Beverly

13 GC2J17A 001-Route 66

14 GCJZDR Cloud Gate aka The Bean

15 GC2B034 Necropolis of Britannia Manor III

16 GCQ596 A Special Memory

17 GC79 Iron Horse

18 GC2K6TW 800-Route 66

19 GC3334 Animal Kingdom

20 GC1MDCE Jolly Green Giant

21 GC7ED St. Louis Arch Virtual Cache

22 GCG71X Cadillac Ranch

23 GCP9G9 Totally Tubular III

24 GC25E1 So We Will Remember Them

25 GC4D7F The Empire Strikes Back

26 GC30CB Sounds of the Bay

27 GC39 The Spot

28 GC64F7 Standin on the corner....

29 GCC859 The Stop and Go,Go,Go Cache

30 GC15RQB A Cool Cache

31 GC10HZW Old Faithful Geyser at Yellowstone National Park

32 GC4E95 LAKE-VEGAS

33 GC2657 I can see Lincoln

34 GCF7A2 Escape From Alcatraz

35 GC2C32 USA, all the way South

36 GC3336 EPCOT

37 GCDE1 Capitol View

38 GC6D43 What in the World Cache?

39 GC37 Missouri's First - Watts Mill

40 GCGFHX Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen

41 GC2E52 Mile Zero

42 GC3798 Covert Cache

43 GC18 Tarryall

44 GCNYKE Totally Tubular II

45 GC10ACW Bridal Veil Falls

46 GC4B24 WD's Original

47 GCZW2C Excalibur

48 GCK08Z Union Square

49 GC8FBF Stone Faced

50 GC7B09 Mall of America Cache III

51 GC9D67 Eiffel Tower

52 GCH657 Don't Drink the Water

53 GCBD0A Laughing Sal's

54 GC31DE The Depot

55 GCEC8 Green Thumb

56 GC12F8M Snug as a Bug in Central Park

57 GC1G3TR Aloha TB Hotel

58 GC253ZN Head Alien #01

59 GC17MX1 Bridges & Arches of Central Park

60 GCNDTN Totally Tubular!

61 GCHH18 13 days in 30 seconds

62 GC24H25 Double Bubble Toil & Trouble

63 GCJ067 The 4 Corners Cache

64 GCB6A8 Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Museum

65 GC3338 Hollywood Studios

66 GC62 Tombstone

67 GC1901 Astoria Column

68 GC1R2JW spicket

69 GCD03B The Summer House

70 GC1B64 Everything is Relative

71 GC2D78C Pinky In The Whitehouse

72 GC3710 The Grassy Knoll

73 GC11C2 FDR Memorial

74 GC57 Geocache

75 GC62C8 Kerry Viewpoint Park

76 GC5165 ORD Layover

77 GC4CE1 MM MM Good

78 GC2D54 Sheldon Ruins

79 GC27N0W The Sword In The Stone

80 GCB0EB Toga Party

81 GCTGF0 Geo MoJo #6 in the Shadow of the TITANS

82 GCKGRZ Reiff's Gas Station

83 GCE0D5 Camp Nasty

84 GC202RG 49 AND HOLDING THE CACHE A GOLD MINER'S DELIGHT

85 GC1375B Full of Hot Air!

86 GCQV5H Hawaii Volcanoes N.P. - Rain Forest & Lava Tube

87 GCHQMX Bryce Canyon National Park- Inspiration Point

88 GCFF01 The Presidential Suite

89 GC1KT61 Shelrik's Happy Cache Inn (For TB's & GC's)

90 GCB57D Dawn of Aviation

91 GC128 The Fort Williams Cache

92 GC1D Beaver Cache

93 GC70 Octopus Garden

94 GC12 GC12 5/12/2000

95 GC9F98 That's Some Water, Eh? - TDR3v

96 GC9165 I-90, Wild Stallions Ride Again

97 GC908D Solar Sailing

98 GC82B5 Manunka Chunk Tunnels

99 GC9E NH #1 - Mines Follies

100 GC1MVYP FLORIDA GEOCAC BENCHMARK PROJECT

100 GCN16W Funk's Grove Rest Area Travel Bug Resort

100 GC2018 Tristate Marker

100 GC4E8 Dune

Edited June 3, 2011 by Ecylram

[+Team Dennis]

Well I've found one of them. Guess I got some work to do.

[+Semper Questio]

I've gotten 7 of them with a few more on my to-do list.

[+LewisClan77]

I have found #s 29,46,48,53,55,and 82. And a DNF on #81.

[+Flintstone5611]

Hey we even have a few of these and we are some rookie canucks!

[+Ms.Scrabbler]

I've got #40 - got it on my 50th birthday!

[+Ms.Scrabbler]

It would be great if these could be shown on a map

[+LukeTrocity]

I found #98! Looks like I got some searching to do.

[+RIclimber]

Some of these are only Favorited because of the icon (APE), others on the list are some of the most visited in the world (disney)

I'd love to see this list sorted by percentages.

#10 - 8%

#59 - 59%

#100- 16%

 

What one is more 'Favorite'?

Edit: I've found nine, and five were in one day!

10, 19, 31, 36, 38, 54, 65, 95, 100(Dune)

Edited June 4, 2011 by Downy288

[knowschad]

Awesome! How did you construct that list?

 

One thing that it shows very clearly, though... the most favorited caches are most likely also the most visited caches.

[+SwineFlew]

I got 7 of them and so far 3 more will be added to the list this coming summer.

 

I did a recount I found 9 so far. oops

Edited June 4, 2011 by SwineFlew

[+fuzziebear3]

I have one of them. One is also only about an hour away, so maybe I can make a milestone for it, it is worthy.

[+Ecylram]

It would be great if these could be shown on a map

 

Sent you an email with a KMZ file of the caches.

 

I've got the KMZ file uploaded here so the locations can be viewed in Google Earth.

 

KMZ now includes three more geocaches that tied for the 100th spot.

Edited June 3, 2011 by Ecylram

[MisterEFQ]

I would love to see something like this just for the top 100 in my state.

[+Ecylram]

Awesome! How did you construct that list?

 

One thing that it shows very clearly, though... the most favorited caches are most likely also the most visited caches.

 

1. Create a Pocket Query of caches by click-selecting the areas you wish to search. (I chose the 50 states plus DC.)
2. Click on 'Preview the search"
3. Sort the list by 'Favorite points'
4. At the bottom of the page select "Check All"
5. Click "Download Waypoints".
6. Repeat for as many as you wish to download. (I did the first five pages. Each page has 20 waypoints.
7. Import the saved .loc files into a blank GSAK database.
8. Exported the database to a "CSV or Txt" file.
9. Imported into Excel.
10. Copied the relevant columns in Excel to Notepad (this is for formatting reasons).
11. Copied the contents in Notepad to the forum post.

[+Ecylram]

The Container types for the Top 100:

 

Container Count

Virtual 43

Regular 22

Micro 11

Not chosen 9

Large 8

Other 6

Small 4

Edited June 3, 2011 by Ecylram

[+Ecylram]

States with a Top 100 cache:

 

State Count

CA 11

WA 11

DC 10

NV 10

FL 8

OR 6

TX 6

NY 5

IL 4

AZ 3

MO 3

Nil 3

LA 2

ME 2

MN 2

NC 2

NH 2

CO 1

GA 1

HI 1

IA 1

KS 1

MA 1

NJ 1

OH 1

SC 1

TN 1

UT 1

WI 1

Edited June 3, 2011 by Ecylram

[+Ecylram]

Difficulty & Terrain Breakdown of the Top 100

 

Difficulty Count

1 46

1.5 18

2 21

2.5 8

3 8

4 2

 

Terrain Count

1 57

1.5 21

2 15

2.5 2

3 6

3.5 1

4 1

Edited June 3, 2011 by Ecylram

[+SwineFlew]

Two of the caches u forgot to add...

 

Trolls Lair GC11HRQ 85 fav

 

Holy Macro! GC278ME 78 fav

Edited June 3, 2011 by SwineFlew

[+Ecylram]

And...the owners of these caches:

 

Owner name Count

Dayspring 3

jteate 3

mtn-man 3

addisonbr 2

buddhavista 2

goblindust 2

Groundspeak 2

Team Stevecat 2

9mil 1

adventuretom 1

Bailey Ave. Boys 1

BAMBOOZLE 1

bluegillfisherman 1

bthomas 1

Cachew 1

camp637 1

chloew 1

Chooch 1

Clay4&whtwolfden 1

cybercat 1

Dale n Barb 1

designer 1

diehard50248 1

Fattuhr 1

GeoMimi55 1

GeoNap 1

gpsfool 1

Greenback 1

HackAttack 1

Haicoole 1

IceG8r 1

iwcotton 1

Jack Black 1

javapgmr 1

Jbond 1

JoGPS 1

jstrout 1

Jug & Roon 1

Kansas Stasher 1

kayakerinme 1

KD7MXI 1

KLifeMom 1

Lacomo 1

legna and sOulbAit 1

LordBritish 1

lucyandrickie 1

LV Hiker 1

Ma n Pa 1

majorbonnet 1

metacognate 1

mikefrazier 1

Moose Mob 1

Moun10Bike 1

Mr. Gadget #2 1

MR57 1

nashuan 1

NGA 1

NotThePainter 1

P.T. Barnum 1

Pharmacache 1

pitufo 1

Planet 1

plotthound2 1

ponyryder 1

RobAGD 1

robamy 1

Roostermiesters 1

sbell111 1

Sceddar 1

Scottmandude 1

Serendipity94123 1

shelrik 1

surfcal 1

Suzyfishn 1

Team Capsaicin 1

Team Dragon Racing 1

Team Family Affair 1

TEAM SNAKEBUSTERS 1

Team Tigger International 1

TECGeoJim 1

The Gecko's 1

thehairyhillbilly 1

tregate 1

tromboneman 1

WAAS-up 1

WalruZ 1

WE4NCS 1

Web-ling 1

webscouter. 1

wv-explorers 1

WYO R 1

Yosemite John and Debbie 1

Edited June 3, 2011 by Ecylram

[+Ecylram]

Two of the caches u forgot to add...

 

Trolls Lair GC11HRQ 85 fav

 

Holy Macro! GC278ME 78 fav

 

 

Trolls Lair is disabled. (Though finds are still being logged.)

Holy Macro is archived.

 

[+SwineFlew]

how about Tristate Marker GC2018. Its tied at 100.

[+Ecylram]

how about Tristate Marker GC2018. Its tied at 100.

 

I grabbed the first five pages and did not look at the sixth page. There are three more caches tied at 100. I'll add them.

 

Edited to add: List, stats, and KMZ have now been edited to include three more caches that were tied for 100.

Edited June 3, 2011 by Ecylram

[MisterEFQ]

Thanks for the info. Im going to run one for my local area so I can find all the favorited ones.

[+Harry Dolphin]

What is bizarre is that I have been to nine of those caches! Fla, DC, NJ, NY and ME. And I have added a favorite to 5 of them. Special congrats to addisonbr for having two on the list! 7, 25, 29, 38, 56, 59, 69, 98, 100

[+GrateBear]

I've found 6 of them--will have to try harder!

[+Coldgears]

Accidently deleted the post while trying to copy it. What's the point of a delete button again?

Edited June 4, 2011 by Coldgears

[+dfx]

I would love to see something like this just for the top 100 in my state.

 

That's easy to do: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?state_id=5&sortdir=desc&sort=fav

[+cache_test_dummies]

I was going to place all those caches first, but a bunch of other people beat me to it.

[+d+n.s]

We've found 3

The Necropolis is maybe my favorite of them all

This shows that easy PnGs won't get all the points despite some of the early fears I read. Many of these are either old or complicated

 

EDIT: Make that 5

Edited June 4, 2011 by d+n.s

[Mr.Yuck]

Found five, but three of them are Walt Disney World in Florida Virtuals. And I haven't found two of the virtuals there, and they're on the list too!! I saved them, because last time I was there (2004) there were actually a ton of physical caches there too. But that ended badly, and physical caches are no longer allowed on Disney property.

 

Post #15 is a little difficult for me. I have an Earthcache with 49 Favorite points, and #100 the list is at 60 favorite points. Just wondering where I place, if you went to more pages.

Edited June 4, 2011 by Mr.Yuck

[+BaylorGrad]

I haven't found any of them... And I have DNFed one of them... Twice. I'm going back for a third try tomorrow. Anyone who wants to give me a hand with Tombstone can drop by, haha!

Edited June 4, 2011 by BaylorGrad

[+FunnyNose]

Looks like I have found 22 of the caches on the list. And FTFed 2 of them... (not that FTFing really matters)

[mtbikernate]

If I was thinking about geocaching when I went to Hawaii Volcanoes NP, I could have gotten the one on this list that was there. I walked right by the location. But since I wasn't thinking about the logging requirements when I was there, no go for me.

 

Tombstone is on my watchlist, though. There are a couple caches in the Dallas area I've got my eye on, and I'm going to make a daytrip up there to snag them one of these days.

[+Ecylram]

Found five, but three of them are Walt Disney World in Florida Virtuals. And I haven't found two of the virtuals there, and they're on the list too!! I saved them, because last time I was there (2004) there were actually a ton of physical caches there too. But that ended badly, and physical caches are no longer allowed on Disney property.

 

Post #15 is a little difficult for me. I have an Earthcache with 49 Favorite points, and #100 the list is at 60 favorite points. Just wondering where I place, if you went to more pages.

 

As of a few minutes ago, you were in a tie with a few other caches at #155.

 

You're the #11 Earthcache in the US.

[+TK7464]

I have 12 of them

1,2,3,8,11,17,32,46,51,57,77&80

[+fizzymagic]

So now we see the dark side of favorites.

 

Why on Earth are people insistent on making everything a competition?

[Mr.Yuck]

So now we see the dark side of favorites.

 

Why on Earth are people insistent on making everything a competition?

 

Oh, c'mon, it's fun. It's not like any of them are bad caches or anything. Sort of proves what I had already observed though, most of them are virtuals or Earthcaches. And those that aren't are often "historic" caches. Such as Mingo, which is basically a park-n-grab.

 

Other than a few I've seen where people favorite caches just because they were FTF, and a few "evil micros" that I've observed having several favorite points (which isn't my cup of tea), I think the system works pretty durn good.

Edited June 4, 2011 by Mr.Yuck

[+Ambrosia]

Interesting list. It looks like I've found 26 of them, DNF'd 4 of them, and almost did 2 more but ran out of time.

 

I was going to post about favorites when I came back from my trip down south in February. It was one of our best caching trips in many years, because of the favorites system helping us to find great caches.

[+Dgwphotos]

Interesting list. It looks like I've found 26 of them, DNF'd 4 of them, and almost did 2 more but ran out of time.

 

I was going to post about favorites when I came back from my trip down south in February. It was one of our best caching trips in many years, because of the favorites system helping us to find great caches.

 

It's also interesting that many of them are PNW caches.

[+d+n.s]

Interesting list. It looks like I've found 26 of them, DNF'd 4 of them, and almost did 2 more but ran out of time.

 

I was going to post about favorites when I came back from my trip down south in February. It was one of our best caching trips in many years, because of the favorites system helping us to find great caches.

definitely helped us plan our Seattle trip

[+power69]

It would be great if these could be shown on a map

And how many points each has.

[+Ecylram]

It would be great if these could be shown on a map

And how many points each has.

 

For now, .loc and .gpx files do not include the favorite information. Perhaps as soon as later this month, Groundspeak will be including the favorite information in GPX files which will make creating "Favorite" lists quite easy.

[+LukeTrocity]

So now we see the dark side of favorites.

 

Why on Earth are people insistent on making everything a competition?

Favorites don't have to be used for competitive purposes, they can be used for when you're visiting a new area and want to see a great cache without going crazy with the prep beforehand. Probably one of the coolest things this site has added.

[+NYPaddleCacher]

Interesting list. It looks like I've found 26 of them, DNF'd 4 of them, and almost did 2 more but ran out of time.

 

I was going to post about favorites when I came back from my trip down south in February. It was one of our best caching trips in many years, because of the favorites system helping us to find great caches.

 

It's also interesting that many of them are PNW caches.

 

I also noticed that California and Washington State had the highest number of favorited caches in that list. Does that mean the CA and WA have better caches than other states? No, it doesn't. In order for a cache to get a favorite point, it has to be found. I suspect that if the stats were available we'd find that CA and WA have more active geocachers than other states, and because of the cache density in those states is very high, geocachers have accumulated more favorite points and have more to award. There might be a lot of really great caches in Wisconsin, Maine, or Utah but because there fewer geocacher finding them, the total number of favorites is going to be lower than caches located in states with a larger population of geocachers.

[+dfx]

Why on Earth are people insistent on making everything a competition?

 

Human nature.

[+LewisClan77]

Why on Earth are people insistent on making everything a competition?

 

Human nature.

Life is a competition.

[+BaylorGrad]

Found my 1st cache on this list exactly 30 minutes ago--finally got it--Tombstone.

[+wimseyguy]

Geez, you couldn't have made that list using links so we can easily see if we've found them or not?

Seriously, big thanks for putting it together, it is an interesting list, but does not contain many surprises. As others have posted, many caches get points for being old, or having a harder to get icon, or simply because they get found a LOT in a tourist destination.

Since I do travel a bit, and always cache when I travel, I have been to 32 of these caches already.

I'm not likely to ever get the ones in the Magic Kingdom, but there are a few others on this list that are already on the to do list, others will get added. I do look at the fave score when planning road trip target caches, but it is only one criteria I use.

[+Ambrosia]

 

Since I do travel a bit, and always cache when I travel, I have been to 32 of these caches already.

 

 

Ok, fine. You win.