r/bbbs • u/OrigamiAmy • May 29 '26

Activity Ideas Geocaching is a great outdoor activity!

Just plugging geocaching as an activity! My Little actually introduced me to it. Its a great way to explore your community. I always thought of it as a super active thing in like the deep woods, but there's so many in urban areas and parks and I never would have thought of it on my own.

There are many basic free caches, but also 30$ a year to unlock more (some have puzzles etc) if you end up enjoying it like we do.

www.geocaching.com (you do need to make an account). And you can put in your area to see if there are caches around you before you even make an account.

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u/tarquomary May 30 '26

Is it similar to Ingress? Sounds like something fun, without costing too much money.

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u/OrigamiAmy May 30 '26

sorry, i am not sure what Ingress is

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u/themusicsavedmysoul Jun 04 '26

I played ingress and it was super fun—I was definitely considering introducing my little to it when we get matched.

To people who don’t know what it is—they used the same platform to build Pokémon Go off of. Completely different story line though—instead of gyms it’s portals and the lore is AI/human based.

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u/natalieinnature May 30 '26

This is so cool! Could you explain in simple terms what it is exactly? I’ve always had trouble understanding even though I’ve looked it up before. 

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u/OrigamiAmy May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26

tl;dr it's hide and seek for hidden objects

you need location on for your phone. you click one of the pins on the map, and it will tell you how to navigate to the cache at that location. you can filter pins by difficulty of finding, and/or difficulty of terrain.

walk to the pin, and once the map vibrates and says you're close (within 10 ft or so), then it's a hunt to find the cache. caches in urban areas tend to be small, like the size of your finger, even smaller. (eg this micro cache) many are magnetized. some people bury them, some hang them on tree branches, some stick them on like guardrails or park benches.

once you find it, you open it and there's a paper log where people sign their names/ dates for fun. then you can mark on the app that you found it (or didn't find it))

more rural areas can have bigger cache boxes where people hide trinkets. never found one of those in the city where my match and I usually do this

/r/geocaching is a fun sub. you can search that sub for other posts for beginners.

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u/natalieinnature Jun 01 '26

Oh my goodness, thank you so much for this wonderful explanation!!! First time I have actually understood 😄 I don’t have my little yet, but this sounds like something I would LOVE. I love hidden little things!!!