My 10-year-old son walked in front of me down a trail through the woods, head bowed, staring at a cellphone in his palm. Really, I wasn’t letting him text in nature. We were geocaching. Ten years ago, ...

A game of hide-and-seek using GPS technology is a joyful distraction for many. By A.C. Shilton If it feels as if you’ve already explored every last nook and cranny of your cramped lockdown life know ...

NOT long after Morgan Lawless, now 13, took up geocaching last year, he asked his mother, Lisa, if she could drive him to a cache near their home in Mamaroneck, N.Y., and let him seek hidden treasure ...

LINCOLN, Neb. – Emergency personnel and a bomb disposal expert have determined that a suspicious "banana" hanging in a pine tree in Nebraska is simply a harmless ...

On a sunny afternoon at Seattle’s Carkeek Park, Dave Baumchen appears to have his mind set on getting to know each and every one of the gnarled, nearly 120-year-old fruit and nut trees at Piper’s ...

Just about every weekend, the Stevens family heads into the woods in search of treasure. Well, maybe not what you would call “treasure” — plastic trinkets, keychains, collectors' coins and the like.

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Emergency personnel and a bomb disposal expert have determined that a suspicious "banana" hanging in a pine tree in Nebraska is simply a harmless geocache. A utility worker spotted ...

7:02 p.m. Update: A suspicious item in a treeline near University Avenue and 48th Street in Grand Forks was identified as a geocache in a PVC pipe by police Sunday but only after bomb squad officers ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Maryland officials are using the popular hobby of geocaching to promote awareness of the state's forests. Geocaching is an outdoor treasure hunt that uses GPS technology to find ...

A woman had to be rescued after she became stuck up a tree in Dorset whilst trying to retrieve a capsule used in an internet-based treasure hunt. Firefighters and a technical rescue team were called ...

HARBOR SPRINGS -- We're a little more than a mile into our first geocaching adventure in northern Michigan, and we already have fallen off course. It isn't the GPS unit that's the problem: it's Pond ...