Table of Contents:
Geocaching Resources
Tutorials
Trade Goods and Signature Items
Clubs and Organizations
Mapping Resources
Lat/Lon Conversions and Calculations
Miscellaneous
Geocaching Resources
The granddaddy of all geocaching sites. This is where you'll find the heart and soul of the geocaching world. Be sure to visit the forums and check out the caches in your area.
See a list of upcoming and recently-passed events, view the latest caches, see Travel Bugs on the move, and search for caches by city.
Use this mapping tool to visually plan out your geocaching run.
Want to be FTF? This is an indepensible tool!
The second largest geocaching site. There isn't much here for Washington State, but there are a greater number of listings for some other areas such as New York and the UK.
A new up-and-coming caching site developed by skydiver. Were you addicted to the old skydiver Geocaching Point System (SGPS)? Then this might be the site for you!
A great resource for cache maps. This site will make planning your next geocaching run much easier!
One of the best sources for visually determining the locations of caches in Washington.
A wonderful guide for all things geocaching, with many useful topics of interest to beginning and experienced cachers alike.
The world's first online magazine for geocachers!
An online form to help you determine the proper difficulty and terrain ratings for your cache hides.
Texas Geocaching's online applet that will generate code for your cache pages with standardized icons for common cache attributes.
The primary Internet newsgroup for discussing geocaching. If you do not have easy access to a newsreader, then try this link to Google's web-based reader.
Tutorials
A helpful tutorial on how to get started by Clan_Barron of the Florida Geocaching Association.
Another take on going paperless from the New Zealand Recreational GPS Society.
Want to spice up your cache pages? Look here for some helpful tips.
GPSBabel's helpful step-by-step procedures for taking geocache data and viewing it in Microsoft Streets & Trips.
Geocaching Gear, Trade Goods and Signature Items
Each purchase that you make supports our organization. Plus, it's just great gear!
Your source for Geocaching.com gear.
Great t-shirt designs that will help you express your love of geocaching!
The best collection of geocaching signature items on the web.
A complete listing of all of the geocoins in circulation.
Handmade and engraved to order!
Beautiful custom buttons that make great trade loot, signature items, or whatever you decide!
Geocoin designs.
Geocoins with a Canadian flair.
American geocoins trackable on Geocaching.com.
The official information and tracking site for the California State Geocoin.
Discounts on GPS systems from Garmin, Magellan, and Navman, plus GPS software, GPS accessories, Fishfinders and Chartplotters.
Clubs and Organizations
The site for our neighbors to our east. Many Eastern Washington cachers also frequent this site.
Visit the forums, check out upcoming events, or track your Oregon geocoins.
The premier community site for Portland, Oregon.
The premier communication forum for Missoula and other Montana geocachers.
The official site for our neighbors to the north.
Resources, articles, tips, opinions, helpful aids, etc., etc., related to geocaching within the Calgary area.
A little far away for those of us in Washington, but a very slick site composed of cache stats, maps, and much, much more.
A project dedicated to promoting and helping to build geocaching communities through peer support and collective development of technical solutions.
Mapping Resources
An online utility that allows you to grab GPS coordinates from any web page, then download them as a LOC file into your mapping software and your GPS receiver.
Free download of any DRG (scanned and georeferenced USGS topographic map) in Washington State.
Free download of Idaho geospatial data, including DRGs and DEMs.
Online maps based on the US Census Bureau's TIGER data.
This page will aid in the generation of a proper URL to use the TIGER/LineŽ Map Generator provided by the United States Census Bureau.
Create an online USGS photo image or USGS topographic map with overlaid markers.
The web's center for USGS topographic maps, orthophotomaps, and aerial photographs of the entire United States.
Use MapQuest to find everything from airports to local businesses.
High resolution USGS aerial imagery and USGS topographic maps. This link will allow you to search using coordinates.
Find nearly any place on Earth and view it by population, climate, and much more.
Want to convert an address to a set of coordinates? This web page will let you.
Our nation's official repository of domestic geographic names information. Here you can look up a feature's location by state, county, and geographic coordinates.
Provides access to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names' (US BGN) database of foreign geographic feature names.
Want to create your own maps for upload to a Garmin receiver? Here's how.
Aerial photos of the entire Washington coast.
Lat/Lon Conversions and Calculations
Translate coordinates (WGS-84, NAD-83, and NAD-27) to and from Latitude/Longitude and UTM.
A helpful online utility for computing distances and bearings between waypoints.
Another helpful utility for computing a waypoint by projecting a given distance and bearing from an existing waypoint.
Miscellaneous
Maps and GPS data for a variety of hikes and mountain bike rides.
Manually updated lists showing those geocachers most addicted to this activity.
Another ranking site that is semi-automated.
A brief outline of the events of May, 2000 that spelled the birth of our favorite activity.
Another perspective on the birth and early history of geocaching from Scout's GPS Games web site. This page is biased against Geocaching.com and distorts many of the facts, but can still be a useful resource.
A list of the world's oldest geocaches.
Are you always wondering what locationless caches are out there and which ones you've already logged? This page will help you keep that information at hand for the next time you run across a target object.
The #1 web site for GPS receiver and mapping software reviews, FAQs and information.
Practical guides, tips, tricks, equipment, software reviews, and other related information about GPS use.
A worldwide database of GPS coordinates.
Want to know what GPS reception will be like in a given spot at a given time? This online application will help.
Want to know what GPS reception will be like in a given spot at a given time? This online application will help.
Another helpful online applet for determining the effect of GPS satellite geometry on DOP.
Screen protection for your GPSr and PDA.
The ancestor of geocaching, letterboxing uses hints rather than coordinates to lead seekers to hidden treasures.
Pictures and stories from visits to each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world.