Sitemap
Every page on the site, grouped by section. 43 pages in total, each one a reference on a single subject rather than an index of somebody else's links.
Start here
- Home. The six sections, and what the site's name is arguing about.
- Start here: your first find, in about an hour.
- Cache types, what each kind of cache asks of you.
- Glossary, the vocabulary nobody explains.
The alternative listing services
- The alternative listing services, section overview.
- Community surveys
- Geocaching.com and the maps question: what changed in 2012
- How a cache gets published
- Navicache: geocaching's other listing site, and what became of it
- Opencaching networks by country
- Opencaching: one name, several projects
- What happened to the alternatives
Geocaching gear that earns its place
- Geocaching gear that earns its place, section overview.
- Beacons and chirp
- External GPS receivers
- Geocaching apps for Android: what to check before you rely on one
- Geocaching apps for iPhone
- Choosing a geocaching GPS for kids
- Phone GPS accuracy
- Handheld GPS vs phone
Geocaching safety and permission
- Geocaching safety and permission, section overview.
- Geocaching alone, sensibly
- Labelling and permission
- Geocaching and the law
- When a search goes wrong
- Why caches get mistaken for devices
The craft of a cache worth finding
- The craft of a cache worth finding, section overview.
- Containers that last
- DIY and modified gear
- Hiding a cache people remember
- Puzzle and mystery caches
Trackables: travel bugs and geocoins
- Trackables: travel bugs and geocoins, section overview.
- How travel bugs go missing
- Unusual trackables
Find counts, streaks and the argument about the numbers
- Find counts, streaks and the argument about the numbers, section overview.
- Challenge caches
- Counts, streaks and power trails
- Geocaching around the world
- Spoilers and etiquette
- Where the hobby came from
Tools
- ROT13 hint decoder: paste an encrypted hint and read it.
- Coordinate converter: degrees and decimal minutes, decimal degrees, degrees-minutes-seconds.
About this site
How the sections relate
The order is not arbitrary. Listing services comes first because the question of where a cache lives is older than any of the software that answers it, and several later pages refer back to it. Gear follows, because the second question anyone asks is what to find caches with. Safety sits third because it is mostly about decisions made by cache owners rather than by finders, and craft follows it directly for the same reason, the two overlap more than their titles suggest.
Trackables is the smallest section, and deliberately so. It covers a genuinely distinct part of the hobby that does not need six pages to explain honestly. The numbers is last because it is the argument the rest of the site keeps running into: what the hobby is for, and what happens when the thing being counted becomes the thing being pursued.
Pages cross-link where the subjects genuinely overlap rather than for the sake of it. A page about container design links to the page about labelling because the same decision affects both; it does not link to trackables merely to have another link.
Machine-readable
An XML sitemap for search engines is published at /sitemap-index.xml. This page is the human version: the same set of pages, grouped so the structure of the reference is visible rather than merely enumerated.
Checked 24 August 2026