waypoint question

[+Weber_and_Sons]

I'm planning on hiding a multicache! the problem is I live in a small town so I don't hide geocaches unless I have awesome ideas which means when hiding a multistage cache its hard to make it so it doesn't take up the whole town so my question is: how close to a physical cache/waypoint can a virtual cache/waypoint be? also in my multi cache I want to hide a virtual stage within a hundred meters of the final stage can I do that and my last question is can I hide a physical waypoint/cache next to a hidden waypoint from another cache? I checked the geocaching guidelines and they don't say anything about these specific questions.

[+barefootjeff]

8 minutes ago, Weber_and_Sons said:

I'm planning on hiding a multicache! the problem is I live in a small town so I don't hide geocaches unless I have awesome ideas which means when hiding a multistage cache its hard to make it so it doesn't take up the whole town so my question is: how close to a physical cache/waypoint can a virtual cache/waypoint be? also in my multi cache I want to hide a virtual stage within a hundred meters of the final stage can I do that and my last question is can I hide a physical waypoint/cache next to a hidden waypoint from another cache? I checked the geocaching guidelines and they don't say anything about these specific questions.

 

From the Guidelines under Check for Minimum Distance:

 

Virtual stages can go anywhere regardless of any other caches nearby.

[+fuzziebear3]

You can't hide a physical stage of your cache, within .1 miles of a physical stage of another cache.   But virtual stages don't matter, and within your own multi, there is no required minimum distance between stages.

 

 

[Keystone]

On 4/9/2025 at 7:00 PM, Weber_and_Sons said:

I checked the geocaching guidelines and they don't say anything about these specific questions.

 

Here is a helpful reference from the Geocache Hiding Guidelines on Cache Saturation.  Also read the Help Center article, "Check for Minimum Distance."  There's a link to that right in the Guidelines.

 

[+JL_HSTRE]

While there is no minimum distance between Virtual Stages, you may want to space them out a little (100+ ft) just to avoid confusion between stages, such as overlapping icons on the map.