Other Hunts

Benchmark Hunting with Geocaching.com - a fun alternative to hunting geocaches...this hunt leads you to benchmarks placed by various US agencies through a mix of gps coordinates and landmark-based direction, some of the benchmarks are over 100 years old.

Extreme Benchmark Hunting - A cool site with a map leading to the oldest, highest, lowest, northermost...benchmarks in every state.

GPSGames.org - A neat site with a host of GPS games including Geodashing, Geogolf, Minutewar, Geopoker, and their own version of geocaching.

Ecoscavenger.com - a scavenger hunt for beautiful places rather than cache containers.

The National Map Corps - a project run by the USGS where volunteers seek out and mark/confirm waypoints on USGS quad-maps for the government.

GeoSnapper - GeoSnapper.com is the birthplace of GPS Photography.

The Corner Corner - a site that leads GPSrs to spots where 3 (or 4) states meets, as well as the compass point spots of each state and provinces.

Backpacker Magazine GPS Center - this magazine has a collection of trails marked with waypoints in some beautiful spots around the country. You will need to open a free account here to acces the trails.

Soaknet - lat/long coordinates to hot springs in many of the US states.

Skysite Recovery Program - recover communications packages with your GPSr for cash..

Waypoint.org - a huge datebase of waypoints all over the earth, grouped by area and/or category.

Cloo - just one example of the clever games UTAG plays with their GPSrs.

Travel by GPS - a site with maps and waypoints to help the traveller see amazing places they've never been to like the locals do.

Swimming Holes - a database of waypoints leading to great swimming spots in the USA.

Geodiving - a database of waypoints for great dives all over the world.

Geodining - a database to help geocacher find restaurants near caches they are visiting.

GARETH`S GPS WORLD - a big database of waypoints all over the world.

GARtrip Waypoints - a collection of waypoints in many countries around the world.

GPS Waypoint Lists - a collection of highpoints around the US and the world

Terrestrial Impact Craters - waypoints to meteorite craters all over the world, with some fascinating information about the craters given.

County Highpointers Association - a website with waypoints and information about highpoints in every county in the USA.

Swopnet GPS Waypoint databank - a huge database of waypoints all over the world.

Geographing - a GPS game involving taking your picture in the exact same coordinates another player did, making sure to include your GPSr in the picture.

NGS Datapoints - a searchable database of benchmarks.

NGS Datasheet archive - a download site for all of the benchmarks in the county of your choice.

The Degree Confluence Project - the goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location.

Canada's Geodetic Survey (for Canadian Benchmarks) - a searchable database of benchmarks in Canada. You will need to sign up for a free account to access this database.