Geocaching

A new game is in town, called Geocaching. Geocaching is an outdoor "treasure-hunting" game in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) to hide and seek caches that are hidden on certain Kansas Wildlife & Parks lands. Geocaching has been around for a while and is becoming very popular as another thing to do in the outdoors. Kansas Wildlife & Parks has started to put caches on each of the State Parks and some of the Public Lands for people to hunt.

This year the Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks is sponsoring the 2nd annual Geocaching Contest.

Participant Guidelines (printed on the back of the entry form)

  1. Kansas Wildlife & Parks (KDWP) Statewide Geocaching contest has 31 official participating locations that will each have two geocaches. They will be marked First Geocache and Second Geocache. ( Any other caches will not be in the statewide contest).
  2. The coordinates of first cache site for each official location will be posted on the KDWP Geocache website. Only after a cacher finds and opens the first cache, and signs and dates the log sheet, will they be able to find the coordinates of the second cache site.
  3. Upon finding and opening the second cache site, the participant will sign and date a log sheet and take a cache site certificate ( proof of finding cache) and personally turn it in to that cache site’s office where they will receive a location site-specific “I found the Geocache” ink pen, and the official statewide KDWP Geocaching entry form with instructions on the back. Entry forms will only become validated at the site office by stamping it with the office’s inked check stamp, for each second cache found.

Please Do Not give anyone the coordinates of any second geocaches because it may jeopardize your contest!

  1. Geocachers can mail in their completed and validated forms anytime during the contest, but final deadline is November 1, 2009. All forms must be mailed to ATTN: Geocache, KDWP Pratt Office, 512 SE 25th Ave, Pratt, KS 67124, and received by deadline date to qualify for statewide contest prizes.
  2. Prizes will be limited to ONE WINNER PER HOUSEHOLD.
  • First Place Prizes will be awarded to up to 50 geocachers who earn ALL OF THE 31 POINTS and who are first to mail their forms to the Pratt office. Cachers who earn ALL points but who mail their forms after the first 50 will automatically roll down to the second-place prize category. First-place prizes (50 winners) are a choice between a two-night stay in a Wildlife & Parks camping cabin, or one annual camping permit for 2010.
  • Second Place Prizes will be awarded to up to 100 geocachers who earn 18-31 points and who are first to mail their forms to the Pratt office. Those who earn 18-31 points but who mail their forms in after the first 100 qualifiers for second-place prizes will roll down to the third-place category. Second-place prizes (100 winners) will be a choice between a one-night stay in a camping cabin or a 14-day camping permit for 2010.
  • Third Place Prizes will be awarded to up to 200 geocachers who earn 5-17 points and who are first to mail their forms to the Pratt office. Third place prizes (200 winners) will be two nights free camping and utilities at any Kansas state park during 2010.

In the table below are the 1st cache locations on each of the areas.

Area

Geocache #1

Cedar Bluff

N38 46.139 W99 47.534

Cheney

N37 43.976 W97 50.643

Clinton

N38 56.201 W95 22.623

Crawford

N37 38.614 W94 48.360

Cross Timbers

N37 46.836 W95 56.720

Eisenhower

N38 30.942 W95 43.893

El Dorado

N37 50.493 W96 49.663

Elk City

N37 15.317 W95 46.453

Fall River

N37 39.954 W96 03.237

Glen Elder

N39 30.178 W98 19.690

Hillsdale

N38 38.597 W94 56.098

Kanopolis

N38 36.385 W97 59.000

Kaw River

N39 03.956 W95 45.096

Lovewell SP

N39 54.235 W98 02.995

Lovewell WA

N39 53.072 W98 01.401

Maxwell WA

N38 28.568 W97 27.495

Meade

N37 09.750 W100 26.004

Milford

N39 06.146 W96 54.864

Mushroom Rock

N38 43.501 W98 01.850

Perry

N39 08.193 W95 28.868

Pomona

N38 39.337 W95 35.716

Prairie Dog

N39 48.069 W99 57.517

Prairie Spirit Trail

N38 30.017 W95 16.395

Pratt Operations Office

N37 37.908 W98 41.624

Rocky Ford WA

N39 14.244 W96 35.005

Sand Hills

N38 07.009 W97 51.332

Scott

N38 41.489 W100 55.549

Smoky Hill WA

N38 41.260 W98 02.994

Tuttle Creek

N39 14.967 W96 35.433

Webster

N39 23.871 W99 25.394

Wilson

N38 55.365 W98 30.237

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