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2025 GGA Best Cache Award

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.

GGA June 2026 - 25th Anniversary Celebration

On June 13th come enjoy fun, being with friends, food, camaraderie, new geocaches, and geocaching stories with your friends. The Georgia Geocachers Association is turning 25! The GGA is the oldest geocaching club in the world and we are going all out to celebrate! Log your attends and guests, let us know if you're bringing a side item dish, and mostly important be ready to have fun!

https://coord.info/GCBKR9A
GGA 25th event

 


GGA 2025 Best Caches contest

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

Category GC Title Winning CO
Most Kid Friendly GCB6EJG Fig the Bookworm's Garden Tales aurora_batty
Best Quest GCB64KM Sword and the Stone aurora_batty
Toughest GCB490F East Bound & Bolted Down! Offspringin
Most Scenic GCB41D2 Ocmulgee River Lookout Dribnak
Most Favorite Points GCB5T3C Operator. I Need An Exit Fast. Tfreck
tied at 28 each GCB3ZZA Child's Play: The Clawesome Cache aurora_batty

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


Adventure Labs!

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!!!


Milestones of 2025

Congratulations to our milestone achievers of 2025.

Congratulations! Now go find some more...


Wildlife Management Areas Open for Geocaches

After working with the Department of Natural Resources - Wildlife Resources Division (WRD), we are pleased to announce an agreement to allow geocaches on Wildlife Management Area's (WMAs). Several of these WMA's have never opened up to geocaching before. [more...]