Fundy National Park – 2013 Geocaching Program

This article was originally published on Cache Up NB. It has been mirrored here for archive purposes only.

Cache Up NB has partnered with Fundy National Park to help maintain and organize their existing geocaching program within the park. We are also responsible for working with the park to create new programs that allow visitors to explore the various regions of this great park through the sport of geocaching.

One of these programs consists of a yearly geocaching “coin” challenge which typically kicks off during the May long weekend. A new series of geocaches is hidden every year and for those who wish to participate in the program, they can receive a limited edition trackable geocoin as a reward for finding all of these hidden caches.

The difficulty, terrain, and number of geocaches differs each year, but the principle is always the same. A geocacher prints off the associated “passport” for the year’s program, and using punches found at each cache location, marks each geocache on their passport with the punch. Upon successful completion of all the geocaches, the geocacher submits their “punched” passport to the Fundy National Park offices, and receives their complientary geocoin. As of 2013, participants in the program must provide a proof of park entry payment in order to receive their coin.

This program was originally started by the Atlantic Canada Geocaching Association (ACGA) but was taken over by Cache Up NB in the spring of 2012. Cache Up NB continues to work with Fundy National Park on creating new programs for the park each year, and other provincial park programs as well.

This year, Cache Up NB has once again partnered with Fundy National Park to bring you another year of geocaching in the park. This year, five new geocaches have been placed in various locations throughout the park emphasizing this year’s theme of Dark Sky Preserve. There are four traditional geocaches, and one multi-cache this year.

The kickoff event for this year’s program is being held this Saturday from 11am to 5pm.  Passports and geocoins will be available at the event location. We will also being selling Cache Up NB lanyards to help support our continued involvement with the program. Please be sure to come by and sign the log.

We are also hosting a breakfast in the park the next day from 9am to noon. Coins, passports, and lanyards will also be available at the breakfast.

For those interested in the Fundy National Park geocaching program, you can obtain a copy of the 2013 passport by clicking the links below. All other previous passports are no longer available as those programs have now been officially retired.

2013 Fundy National Park Geocaching Passport – English

2013 Fundy National Park Geocaching Passport – French

You can also see a full list of all the geocaches in this year’s program by checking out our bookmark listing. This bookmark will contain all of the caches once they are published.