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Earthquake Awareness Week - News |WJTV - News Channel 12 - Jackson, MS
Tunica, MS is using geocaching to promote earthquake awareness. Participants locate a geocache container at the Tunica Museum and find various preparedness and disaster information. People can then share their geocaching experiences online.
The Dalles Chronicle Local News
"The Dalles (Ore.) Chamber of Commerce has hidden twelve caches throughout Dalles, highlighting historic areas.The plan is to add more caches and buy GPS units that the Chamber can rent out to visitors. Northern Wasco County Park and Recreation District (NWCPRD) already owns 10 GPS units, and loans them to visitors in exchange for their driver’s license number.
"The Dalles’ sister city. Miyoshi City in Japan, sent a group to visit the Gorge from July 23-27. One of the highlights of their trip was late-morning geocaching along the riverfront trail."
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The Dalles Chamber of Commerce has joined in on the fun. Dana Schmidling, the executive director of the Chamber, thought that geocaching would be a great way to attract travelers into the city. They have hidden twelve caches throughout The Dalles, highlighting historic areas.
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The Dalles’ sister city Miyoshi City, Japan, sent a group to visit the Gorge from July 23-27. One of the highlights of their trip was late-morning geocaching along the riverfront trail. Mullins helped them search for caches near the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, with help from Bob and Kris McFadden, who lead the sister city program.
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Hidden treasures stashed in parks | Kansas.com
The State of Kansas is using geocaching to promote its 29 parks and the prizes are attractive The first 50 families or individuals to log all 29 official sites can choose two days in a state park cabin or a 2009 annual camping permit. The first 100 to log 18 or more sites win a night in a cabin or a 14-day camping permit. The first 200 to log five or more sites will get two nights of free camping.
Parks playing high-tech game of hide-and-seek with visitors
The state of Arkansas is placing caches in all 52 of its state parks and challenging geocachers to collect them all.
Using geocaching in destination marketing
The convention and visitors bureaus in Kosciusko, Allen and Marshall counties created the Highway 30 Cache Dash program this spring to draw visitors to nine sites spread out among the three counties. The high-tech treasure hunt, which will last at least through the fall, capitalizes on the growing popularity of geocaching, in which players use GPS units to find their way to mystery sites.
“It’s new and unique, and it’s a hot trend,” said Mary Kittrell, executive director of the Kosciusko County Convention & Visitors Bureau.
The three CVBs developed their geocaching program with three themes based on the highway the counties share. Geocachers can travel the highlights trail, which takes them to better-known attractions; the foodie trail, based on restaurants and other food-oriented businesses; or the famous people trail, which combines local sites linked with historical saints and sinners.
Geocachers can begin in any of the three counties, and the bureaus offered gift baskets to the first from each county to complete all three trails.
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