Geocaching Geotour
The Outdoor Treasure Hunt for You and Your Family
Experience the magic of the Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region’s 10 Amazing Places with the Official Amazing Places Geotour!
We’ve partnered with Geocaching.com to bring you a fun and exciting way to experience the region’s most beautiful places. Geocaching is a real-world outdoor treasure hunting game. Millions of players use the Geocaching® app or a GPS to find cleverly hidden containers called geocaches and log their experiences online.
Little Qualicum Falls Provincial Park
Geocaching in the Amazing Places
The Geotour Field guide was written by knowledgeable locals and developed to help you through the geotour. Chock full of helpful and interesting information - including instructions on how to complete the geotour, cache code collection pages, a map of the region, and tons of information on each Amazing Place and its geocache - it will guide you through completion of the geotour so you can redeem your collection page for a prize: a customized Amazing Places Geotour geocoin!
The Field Guide
Download and print the free Geotour Field Guide.
Or purchase a hardcopy for just $10 at one of the following locations during open hours:
Parksville & District Chamber of Commerce, 1275 Island Hwy E, Parksville, BC, V9P 2G3
Tigh-Na-Mara Seaside Spa Resort Gift Shop, 1155 Resort Drive, Parksville, V9P 2E3
How It Works
The Amazing Places Geotour consists of 6 traditional geocaches and 2 multi-caches. To complete the geotour, use the coordinates in the Field Guide or on the geocaching app to find the geocaches.
To get the coin, find each of the Amazing Places interpretive signs and answer the GeoClue in the Field Guide. The sign coordinates are listed in the Field Guide and shown as waypoints on the geocaching app. Read the sign to answer each GeoClue on the cache code collection page.
When you’ve completed your collection page with all 10 GeoClue answers, bring your completed cache code collection page to one of the locations listed above to get your coin!
Please note: Sadly, due to chronic loss or theft of the unique coins in each cache, the rubbings are no longer required on the cache code collection page in the Field Guide to prove your find. Simply log them on the Geocaching.com app and solve for the GeoClue to complete the geotour.
Download the Geocaching.com app or use your GPS to get started on your Amazing Places Geotour adventure today!
New to geocaching? Learn more here:
Try out the Amazing Places Adventure Labs! A series of fun and informative digital challenges on each of the Amazing Places. You don’t need to find a physical geocache container for these. Just download the app, visit each site to gain access to the digital adventure lab, read the clues, and correctly answer each question for the win. It’s less physical and challenging than the Geotour, but just as fun and a great way to experience the Amazing Places.
Learn more by downloading the app to your smart device, or by visiting the Geocaching Adventure Lab website.