Geocaching near GCAX1X1

You’re probably looking at the area around Fall Fest and thinking to yourself “Holy Doodle, that’s a lot of caches!!” You’re right. There ARE a lot of caches around the event. More than 3600 of them, as of early January 2025… and that number is growing on a regular basis. That should be enough to keep anyone busy for a couple of days… and that’s before we have even started placing caches for the actual event!

Whether you’re looking for specific DTs to complete your next fizzy loop, you want to do an entire fizzy loop in a day, you’re interested in challenges, you want easy park and grabs with historical meaning, you’re targeting oldies, you’re looking for rare icons like Virtuals and Earthcaches, or you just want to find some cool caches in the area, Brant County has something to offer you.

The organizing team has created a bookmark list of Noteworthy caches within 32km (20 miles) of Fall Fest. We also have a Bookmark list of Caches placed for GCAX1X1 that we will add caches to as they are published, and a Bookmark list of caches placed for the GeoChallenge. Finding the caches on the GeoChallenge bookmark list and collecting the code words gives you the chance to take home some awesome swag and prizes, such as geocoins, pathtags, trackable tags, and more. Check out the Activities tabs for more info on the GeoChallenge and other prize opportunities. 

On this page, we are going to talk specifically about some of the really cool and unique experiences, series and geoarts you can find in Brant County. This information should be used for planning purposes only - there is no way anyone could complete all of these things in one weekend and still have time to participate in the event. 

GeoArts:

 

Dog GeoArt by Desafio
Type of caching: along paved and gravel rail trails
Type of cache: Mystery
Number of caches in series: 70
Sample GC Code: GCAH9PN

Telephone GeoArt by BrantCountyCachers
Type of Caching: Park n Grabs on mostly gravel roads
Type of caches: Letterbox Hybrid
Number of Caches in Series: 50
Sample GC Code: GC9B5E9

Desafio’s 10 Year Challenges by Desafio
Type of caching: mostly roadsides, park n grabs on paved roads. One short walk on flat surface
Type of Caches: Challenges (mystery)
Number of Caches in series: 22
Sample GC Code: GC9QWC8

Stocking GeoArt by Desafio
Type of caching: Park n Grabs on mostly gravel roads
Type of Caches: Letterbox Hybrids
Number of caches: 23
Sample GC Code: GCB161T

Series along Trails/Hiking Series:

Carni Challenge Trail by carnigrewal
Type of caching: Paved and/or gravel trail (multiple sections)
Type of caches: Challenges (mystery)
Number of caches in series: 100+
Sample GC code: GC4T1YX

Waterford Heritage Trail NATO Series by karen rinora
Type of caching: Mostly paved trail trail
Type of caches: Mystery (with some non-series traditionals and challenges thrown in)
Number of caches in series: 26+
Sample GC code: GCAM8D4

Star-Runner’s Candy Series by Star-Runner
Type of caching: mostly gravel trails in farmland
Type of caches: mostly traditionals
Number of caches in series: 50+
Sample GC code: GC5YMA6

Pac-Man Eats Oxford by squeeky_, Milos and loislynn
Type of caching: mostly gravel, some paved rail trail
Type of caches: Puzzles and Wherigos
Number of caches in series: 37
Sample GC code: GCAW0EH

The Squeek Series (Squeek is Puzzled and Wher did Squeek Go?) by loislynn, Milos, mmsm and squeeky_
Type of caching: mostly gravel trails
Types of caches: Puzzle and wherigos
Number of caches in series: 32
Sample GC Code: GC9V0XK

Series along Rivers/Paddle Caches:

 

Smith’s Mills Pond/Night Sky caches by Desafio
Type of caching: Paddle
Types of caches: Mystery
Sample GC Code: GCABV44

Mohawk Lake series by Desafio
Type of caching: Paddle
Type of caches: Traditional, challenge, puzzle
Sample GC code: GCAA6RZ

Grand River - South Section
Multiple Series by multiple cache owners
Type of Caching: Paddle
Type of caches: Multi, Puzzle, Challenge, Traditional
Sample GC Code: GCAANH7

Nith River - Multiple Series by multiple cache owners
Type of caching: Paddling
Type of caches: Wherigo, Earthcache, Traditional, Multi, Letterbox
Sample GC code: GCAREWY

Big Creek caches by bmuzzin
Type of caching: Paddling
Type of caches: Traditional, Challenge, Puzzle
Sample GC code: GCA9B9J

My Child is… Series by bmuzzin
Type of caching: Paddling
Type of caches: Traditional, Challenge, Puzzle
Sample GC code: GC9GCN2

Grand River - North Section
Multiple series by Multiple cache owners
Type of caching: Paddling
Type of caches: Earthcache, Traditional, Letterbox
Sample GC code: GC8CDNJ

Lake Hunger caches by Star-Runner
Type of caching: Paddling
Type of caches: Traditional
Sample GC code: GC9KFAT

Teeterville W Questions series by Star-Runner
Type of caching: Paddling
Type of caches: Traditional
Sample GC code: GC9FRAV

Paddling Norwich caches by Star-Runner
Type of caching: Paddling
Type of caches: Traditional
Sample GC code: GC712YZ

Roadside Series:

 

3D printed containers by Pasha88
Type of caching: Park n Grabs, mix of paved and gravel roads
Type of caches: Traditionals
Sample GC Code: GC9WYHM

Zombie Series by mmzombie
Type of caching: Park n Grabs, mix of paved and gravel roads
Type of caches: Traditionals
Sample GC code: GC4W0Z8

Tick Series by loislynn, Milos and squeeky_
Type of caching: Park n Grabs, mix of gravel and paved roads
Type of caches: Traditional
Sample GC code: GCA8J3G

Treez Pleez series by loislynn, Milos and squeeky_
Type of caching: mostly tree climbs, roadsides
Type of caches: Traditionals
Sample GC code: GCA41CK

Groundhog Day Series by loislynn, Milos and squeeky_
Type of caching: Park n Grabs, assorted DT ratings
Type of caches: Mostly traditionals, some puzzles
Sample GC code: GCA4FC2

Stars on 45 Series by mmsm, squeeky_ and Milos
Type of caching: Park n Grabs, assorted DT ratings
Type of caches: Unknown, wherigo, letterbox hybrid, traditional
Sample GC Code: GCAKDTY

The Breakfast Series by mmsm, squeeky_ and Milos
Type of caching: Park n Grabs, assorted DT ratings
Types of caches: mostly traditionals
Sample GC code: GCA5RFG

Norfolk Road Trip by multiple different cachers
Type of caching: varied, mostly park n grabs
Type of caches: mostly traditionals
Sample GC code: GC4MG5B

There are plenty of other caches and series that may be of interest to you for different reasons. For example:

-Brant county has caches dating back all the way to 2002, if you are looking to fill in physical cache Jasmer squares.

-Brant Count has 3 of the rarest DT combinations for Earthcaches in the world, and 9 with a difficulty greater than 3.5

-Brant County has some rare virtual DTs as well, including a 3/1 and 3/2

-Brant County has 12 boat-accessible Earthcaches, that are all rated 4.5 or 5 for terrain

-Brant County has more than 200 published challenges, with more being placed for the event

Overall, you’re sure to find some caches in the area that suit your abilities and desires. Get out there and have fun!