GGA Best Cache Awards

                 2025

We would like to bring back the GGA Best Cache Awards. This upcoming year we will be looking for your best and brightest ideas and caches in these five categories. Get those creative ideas flowing and let us see what you’ve got.  Winners will get a special banner to place on their Cache Page to show they were selected as GGA 2025 Best Caches.  

Award Categories

1. Most Kid Friendly
2. Best Quest
3. Most Scenic Location
4. Toughest
5. Most Favorite Points

Submission to a category

1. January 1, 2025, to April 30, 2025 window for publishing new caches.
2. The C.O. will submit their cache GC number to the Steering Committee at gageoadm@gmail.com advising which category they wish their cache to be placed in. 
3. A cache can be submitted to more than 1 category if the C.O. desires.
4. Every cache that receives a Favorite Point is automatically considered for that award category.

Voting

1. Voting for the best caches will take place in December.
2. A list of caches in each category will be provided and updated as caches are submitted.  Available on our Website and FaceBook page.
3. You must have found all caches in a category to vote in that category.
4. Voting will be by Google Doc form.

It is time for the 2026 GGA coin design. 

As usual, there are minimal restrictions on the design and we encourage multiple submissions (up to 3 per person). 

Submission will be done via the GGA email - gageoadm@gmail.com

You have from now until midnight Feb. 28th, 2026 to submit your final designs.  You can submit your artwork and then adjust or refine until that date/time.   

Voting opens on March 2, 2026 and closes at midnight on March 8, 2026

The only requirements:

The year 2026 must be included somewhere in the design.

‘GGA’ or ‘Georgia Geocachers Association’ has to be in the design.

Keep the design theme family-friendly.

Submissions need to include a standard image file format (.JPG or .PNG). 

If your design requires a specific color of metal, or has a 3D component, be sure to detail that.  If this is part of the winning design, we will at least get estimates on the cost of these extra items. 

FAQs:

1. The coins will be trackable on geocaching.com. The words ‘Track this coin at www.geocaching.com’ and the six-digit trackable code/number can be on the back of the coin or on the rim; designer’s choice.

2. The winner receives two of the coins.

3. The standard round shape is fine, but other shapes are also welcome.

4. If you have submitted artwork before and it was not chosen in an earlier year, feel free to submit it again -- with the updated information.

5. A limited edition of 100 coins will be made.

The 2025 Best Cache contest has concluded.  Our Winners are:

Congratulations to all the CO'S that participated in the contest.

The GGA SC has been working closely with Geocaching HQ on Adventure Labs and we're thrilled to announce we've published 7 Adventure Labs this year for a total of 70 lab caches! Check them out:

The Heart of Atlanta

Doll's Head Trail @ Constitution Lakes

Midtown Arts and Culture

A Stroll Down the Famous Peachtree Street!

Historic Oakland Cemetery

I Have a Dream

Atlanta Rocks!!

Enjoy!!!

Congratulations to our milestone achievers of 2025.

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