Geocaching

Locate caches hidden throughout the Northstar® Resort hiking trails! Use your own GPS unit or rent one from The North Face in the Village at Northstar™ to find the coordinates. Please call 530.562.3663 for more information.

Geocache Adventure Package

Family time in the great outdoors couldn’t be more fun than a Geocache Adventure.  Kids and adults of all ages can test their terrain and intellectual prowess by searching for caches located throughout the Northstar Resort hiking trail system on the mountain.

• What is it?  Geocaching has been described as a “high tech treasure hunt”. It is the activity of using a GPS (global positioning system) handheld device to locate more than 430,000 caches or treasure boxes, hidden in nearly every country around the world, from city streets to ski slopes to hiking trails. These caches contain treasure, usually toys or other little trinkets.
  
  Northstar-at-Tahoe™ Resort’s caches (rustic ammo cans) contain a log book and trinkets. See who has come before you and add your name to the log book, and please follow the "take-a-trinket, leave-a-trinket" rule. 
  
  
• How Much does it Cost? Only $10 for a GPS rental and $5 adult hiking trail pass - kids hike free! Appropriate footwear is recommended.
  
  
• Skills Required:  None! We will show you how the GPS unit works. If you can use a cell phone, you can use the GPS unit.
  
  
• How Does the Game Work? Cache locations are rated as easy (green circle), intermediate (blue square), or advanced (black diamond). You will dial the cache coordinates of your choice into the GPS, three- to four satellites will lock onto your position, then guide you to the cache location.  Sound easy? A GPS may get you within 30 feet of a cache, and then the real fun begins; searching around logs, boulders and tree stumps.
  
  Coordinates are listed below and have already been entered in each GPS unit that you rent at the The North Face store in the Village.
  
  

  Cache 1	Cache 2	Cache 3	Cache 4
  Advanced	Easy	Intermediate	Intermediate
  N 39’14.760	N 39’14.988	N 39’14.8162	N 39’14.874
  W120’07.525	W120’07.462	W120’07.919	W120’08.275
  Accuracy: 120 feet	Accuracy: 26 - 27 feet	Accuracy: 38 feet	Accuracy: 24feet
  Cache 5	Cache 6	Cache 7
  Intermediate	Easy	Advanced
  N 39’15.044	N 39’15.493	N 39’15.800
  W120’08.351	W120’ 08.413	W120’ 08.953
  Accuracy: 20 feet	Accuracy: 25 feet	Accuracy: 30 feet

  
  
• Equipment Needed: A handheld GPS device (i.e. Garmin), hiking shoes, and a trail pass.
  
  
• Rules:
  1. Take something from the cache
  2. Leave something in the cache
  3. Write about it in the logbook

For more information about geocaching:

• Geocaching.com
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Geocaching