Largest Geocache

[+C&C+COMPANY]

I was planning on setting up a large geocache, I started to wonder what the largest geocache container is??

If you know of any I would like to get some pics of them, to get some ideas.

[+Two Geeks and a GPS]

I was thinking about a large (pick-up truck cargo box sized) cache for really good (and big) trade items. It would have a lock on it and probably be a members only cache at least at first. It would be on my own property though too.

[+Monkeybrad]

The largest one that I am aware of is a 1987 Nissan Pathfinder 4-wheel drive SUV where the entire interior is the cache container. I don't want to give the link since it is a surprise to the people that find it. The size is not listed as an attribute, but on the page it say that the cache is in a "small 4X4 container under a pile of rocks". There are also lots of warnings to place it back exactly as you found it.

[+C&C+COMPANY]

O.K I wasn"t planning to spend that much on a geocache container. I would love to see a pic.

[+Two Geeks and a GPS]

The largest one that I am aware of is a 1987 Nissan Pathfinder

 

I want to see a pic as well!! That is crazy.

[+Monkeybrad]

I will try to go get a pic this afternoon.

[+C&C+COMPANY]

I"ll check tommorrow for the pic.Thanks

[+C&C+COMPANY]

I just was going thru the forums and somebody said they used a old camper for a cache container, they didn't list the cache name.

[+radioscout]

This is the largest geocache I have ever found. It has been stolen some weeks ago. Look at the pictures of the cache box.

[+C&C+COMPANY]

It looks like a suitcase bomb, to bad it was taken.

[+briansnat]

Isn't there one that is a cabin on someone's land?

[+C&C+COMPANY]

I've seen that one also, I just can't remember where. In Canada I don't think we have many like those.

I might have to build a tree fort in the woods somewhere.

[+Monkeybrad]

The cabin one actually just has a cache hidden on the outside of the cabin.

[+ShowStop]

Probably not the largest, but still pretty big at 30" x 20" x 24" :

3x3 mini adventure

 

I dropped a 15" monitor in the cache container.

[+Monkeybrad]

OK I got the pics, but I now realize that I have no idea how to post them. Help please.

[+wimseyguy]

1.Post the pics somewhere on the 'net. I just use alternate avatar pics at gc.com but you might have other options.

2. Click the IMG button. Enter the url in the popup window.

3. Post reply.

Edited October 4, 2004 by wimseyguy

[+GeoCraig]

The largest cache that I've found was a 5 gal. bucket.

 

The smallest had an interior volume of less than 1 cc.

[+Monkeybrad]

See the cache?

[+Monkeybrad]

How about now?

[+Monkeybrad]

The description says it is a small 4X4 container under a pile of rocks.

[+Monkeybrad]

Note the official geocache sticker under the handle.

[+Firehouse16]

OK, why would someone leave a vehicle there? How long has it been there? Any vehicle usually left abandoned is usually stripped pretty quickly or everything broken and ripped out of it.

[+Monkeybrad]

Inside the cache, I need to restock it soon, it is kinda bare at the moment. Although, there is more swag in here than would fit in a double 50 ammo can, it looks bare unles you really load it up. When it started it had two toasters, six vases, two electric can openers, a coffee maker and two lamps in it as well as the other swag. All new stuff still in the boxes. It also had a really tacky three foot tall FTF trophy.

[+Monkeybrad]

It was not left there, I put it there. I drove this thing for 249,000 miles before the tranny went out. A new tranny cost more than the car was worth so I parked it in one of our barns. It sat there for a year before i got involved in caching. I got the idea for this cache so I towed the pathfinder to a set of heavy woods on our farm that is accesible from a side road. It is .17 from the road and you have to walk through some pretty thick stuff to get to it. The best thing is you cannot see it from 100 feet away. Believe it or not it gets no finds occassionally.

 

I removed a section of fencing to allow access and have quit running cattle on this piece of property, plus we no longer mow these pastures to make it more interesting for cache hunters. Another plus of this is that we now have a large deer population that has moved into this area. I jumped two big deer when I went in to take the pictures today. My wife and I intend to build a house here in the next couple of years, when we do I will move the cache so it will not be in our back yard.

Edited October 4, 2004 by Monkeybrad

[+wimseyguy]

As someone we both know well would say:"toooo cooool!"

Now I have to scour your profile, add it to my watch list, and put it on our must do list for the next Cacheville visit. I might even keep it a secret from the rest of the team since I spend more time in the forums than the other five put together.

 

PS- Got it!

Edited October 4, 2004 by wimseyguy

[+Monkeybrad]

That someone was actually FTF and that was what he wrote in the logbook.

[+HoPri]

I guess that the following cache is among the largest caches worldwide. It is a room so that you could trade your sofa... Have a look at the gallery.

 

Das Unten Cache Room

 

Best regards,

HoPri

[+nittany dave]

I might even keep it a secret from the rest of the team since I spend more time in the forums than the other five put together.

 

PS- Got it!

You think because we don't post we don't visit?

You're secret is blown!

[+fly46]

That someone was actually FTF and that was what he wrote in the logbook.

Somehow I can picture that propped up on his television or something. lol!

[+Pyewacket]

Isn't there one that is a cabin on someone's land?

I wrote this article for September's issue of Today's Cacher. Located in Slovenia, the cache is the entire cabin.

[Curious George]

This is a cool one I did in Amsterdam during the summer. The car contains a cache, a garden and even a fish pond

 

http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/log/4f5d7...ee6b2f37acf.jpg

 

Note the left hand corner of the bumper!

 

Here is the cache page:

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...08-91ecfd616047

Edited October 5, 2004 by Curious George

[+Dagg]

This is a cool one I did in Amsterdam during the summer. The car contains a cache, a garden and even a fish pond

 

http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/log/4f5d7...ee6b2f37acf.jpg

Thats SO cool

[+Monkeybrad]

Those are all cool, but they are really small or average size containers placed in large places. The cool thing about the pathfinder cache is that the entire interior is the cache container. If someone wants to trade for the ashtray or steering wheel that is perfectly acceptable. I am not sure that would be the case if you traded out the furniture in the cabin, I may be wrong. I am really curious to see if there is anything larger than the pathfinder out there.

[+fly46]

Those are all cool, but they are really small or average size containers placed in large places. The cool thing about the pathfinder cache is that the entire interior is the cache container. If someone wants to trade for the ashtray or steering wheel that is perfectly acceptable. I am not sure that would be the case if you traded out the furniture in the cabin, I may be wrong. I am really curious to see if there is anything larger than the pathfinder out there.

I think you win - for now.

 

When I become a billionaire, I'm going to hire the people that made the FREE stamp for Cleveland and the arrow for San Francisco to make an ammo box that's 100 feet long.

 

*Checks pockets*

Hmm... 19 cents down, $999,999,999.81 to go.

[+Marky]

Probably not the largest, but still pretty big at 30" x 20" x 24" :

3x3 mini adventure

 

I dropped a 15" monitor in the cache container.

Now that you have to walk to the cache, I doubt anyone would want to carry the monitor back out. (I didn't check the logs to see if anyone ever traded for the monitor.)

 

--Marky

[+Team Perks]

Probably not the largest, but still pretty big at 30" x 20" x 24" :

3x3 mini adventure

 

I dropped a 15" monitor in the cache container.   

Now that you have to walk to the cache, I doubt anyone would want to carry the monitor back out. (I didn't check the logs to see if anyone ever traded for the monitor.)

 

--Marky

Just wait. When I get out there, I'm bringing a fireproof safe. Try carting THAT back home!

[+PittCaleb]

I love monkeybrad's cache - still LOL "4x4 container under rocks" - rotfl

 

We were recently doing a multi-cache and along the path while searching out the first stage, we passed near an old, classic, stripped and rusted out VW Bug. I said to my newbie caching partners "want to bet the cache is in the bug?" We searched through the bug without success. I was bummed out.

 

Considering going back and planting a cache in the bug, but there are already 2 caches in this pretty small and remote area/park.

 

Congrats on the "outside the box" thinking monkeybrad!

 

Caleb

[+Mikro-John]

I'm actually making a 600 US gallons Cabin which i'll place on our farm =) It will probably be one of the biggest caches in the world =)

 

Follow my Youtube account: http://www.youtube.com/user/MJgeocaching?feature=mhee

I will upload a video of it 12 November 2011 because it is a cache that is going to be published during my Extreme MJ Event same day =)

[+DanOCan]

"World's Largest Travel Bug Hotel"

This is the largest cache I have found so far.

[+A & J Tooling]

Wow, and here I thought my truck tool boxes were gonna' be big ones.

[+JL_HSTRE]

I recall seeing a photo a small shack/building that I think was somewhere in the Pacific NW that was geocache.

[+wimseyguy]

I have heard of but not found a self storage unit that was rented out for a year and used as a cache. Depending on the size, it's possible for the Pathfinder to fit inside that one.

[+sshipway]

I heard of a cache the size of a house somewhere in central USA. It was a huge abandoned grain silo. However I no longer know the link...

[+mucek4]

The largest one I found was in Austria (didn't know that we have one in Slovenia too - it's market as other size and not large)

Here is link

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC2AQHQ

Edited September 28, 2011 by mucek4

[+Team Dennis]

I think I remember hearing about someone who used a 20' (30'? 40'???) shipping container as a cache. Maybe down in Phoenix, AZ? Somebody help me out on this one.

[knowschad]

I think I remember hearing about someone who used a 20' (30'? 40'???) shipping container as a cache. Maybe down in Phoenix, AZ? Somebody help me out on this one.

 

I seem to remember that, too. I'll see if I can find it. Meanwhile, here's one of the classics (and somebody talks about building one from a shipping container in one of the posts in the thread) http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=142034

 

More talk: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=138491

And more talk: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=162878

Still more: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=130416

And http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=70565

[+geocat_]

These containers were actually on someone's back patio at their apartment. It was a multi with the coords and combo to the padlock on the fence at stage one.

 

 

Here was the biggest one I found. A refrigerator full of stuff...