Detroit is My Home

06
Oct

Have you caught on to Geocaching yet?

Author: Teresa, Category: Uncategorized

The Detroit Zoo has created six caches, or hiding places, throughout the 125-acre park. Geocaching is a high-tech outdoor treasure hunting game in which players use a Global Positioning System (GPS) to hide and seek containers. Participants log on to one of several geocaching Web sites to download the GPS coordinates of cache locations and the search begins.

The GPS coordinates of the six Detroit Zoo caches can be found on www.geocaching.com. All of the Zoo caches can be reached from public pathways. None are buried underground but they are camouflaged.

Once a zoo cache is discovered, participants open a container, record their names on a log and replace the container in the exact place they found it for subsequent geocachers to discover. Later, they log on to a geocaching Web site and complete a process to earn a point for each cache they find.

The Detroit Zoo is open daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April through October, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. November through March.

Admission is $11 for adults 13 to 61, $9 for senior citizens 62 and older, and $7 for children ages 2 to 12; children under 2 are free.

For more information, call (248) 541-5717 or visit www.detroitzoo.org.