Geocaching
join our high tech treasure hunt; there are three permanent geocaching trails available, including a Harry Potter themed course!
Handsets available ready programmed for you to go!
Bookings
The geocaching handsets are available per session; morning 9-12; afternoon 1-4pm and evening 5-9pm. Please visit our fees page for the cost per session. You can book as many sessions as you like.
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Before booking this activity you need to check if the site is available and first make a booking for a site visit.
If you have already booked the site you can go ahead and book the sledges using the Activity Booking form on our ‘Forms’ page.
We recommend that you pre-book activities as early as possible, but please note they are offered subject to availability; priority at weekends will be given to any residential users at the site. We will inform you if your chosen time is not available.
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How to Use & Book
If you are using the geocaches for the first time then a member of the Outdoors team will contact you before your visit to arrange a time for an induction session.
Full instruction and details are available; please take time to watch the informative videos we have put together to help you
Before booking the activity you must read and download the following:
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Geocaching Instructions
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Conditions of Use
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Risk Assessment
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Booking Form – this should be signed and returned as instructed on the form.
Geocaching is an outdoor sporting activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver to seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world.
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A typical cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook where the geocacher enters the date they found it and signs it with their name. Larger containers such as plastic storage containers (Tupperware or similar) can also contain items for trading, usually toys or trinkets of little value. Geocaching is often described as a "game of high-tech hide and seek".
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Geocaches are currently placed in over 100 countries around the world and on all seven continents, including Antarctica. After 10 years of activity there are over 1,532,000 active geocaches published on various websites. There are over 5 million geocachers worldwide.