The Maryland Municipal League, with the gracious help of our sponsor/partners, the Maryland Geocaching Society, ESRI, KCI Technologies, Inc, Local Government Insurance Trust (LGIT), Stearns & Wheler, LLC, and the Hagerstown-Washington County Convention and Visitors Bureau, is the first Municipal Association in the country to launch a statewide city/town Geocache Trail.

MML created the Geocache Trail to promote awareness of and visits to Maryland's cities and towns, with the goal of helping to stimulate economic development in Maryland's municipalities. This effort taps into the rapidly growing high-tech tourist trade that is not limited to any particular age group. Discovering a geocache, is very much like going on a treasure hunt using a hand-held GPS (Global Positioning System) to plot map coordinates to locate the treasure or "cache." The geocacher must access the official geocache website www.geocaching.com, go to the MML account and download or manually enter the map coordinates for each cache on the Maryland Municipal League Geo Trail; then use the GPS to find the caches. "It is deceptively easy."

A geocache trail is a series of geocaches tied together by a common theme. The theme of the Maryland Municipal League Geocache Trail is Celebrating Maryland's Cities and Towns. The trail is comprised of 78 city/town caches located in the 11 MML Districts (regions) throughout the state. A collectible, highly coveted geo coin will be given to the first 500 geocachers who locate a minimum of 22 city/town caches throughout the state. To be eligible for the coin, geocachers must pick up a passport at any participating visitor center (or download and print one from the link below), use the stamp in each cache on their passports and write in the cache code word. After at least 2 municipal caches in each of the 11 districts are discovered, geocachers may return to any one of the participating county visitor centers and have their passports validated to receive a collectable coin. Passports may continue to be used even after all coins have been claimed as a way for geocachers to keep track of their Maryland Municipal League Geocache Trail discoveries.

Geocaching is fun and a great way to explore all that Maryland cities and towns have to offer.

Click here for a list of participating cities and towns.

Click here for a map of participating cities and towns.

Click here for a list of participating visitor centers with addresses and hours of operation.

Click here or on the icon below to go to the Maryland Geocaching Society website.

Click here to view the MML Geocache web pages on the geocaching.com website.

Click here or on the icon below to visit the geocaching.com website.

Click here to view a video of geocaching in Gaithersburg.

Click here to download an Electronic Version (.pdf) of the Geocache Passport.
Instructions for the Electronic Version of the Geocache Passport: You will need Adobe Acrobat to view and print this document. To download Adobe Acrobat, click the link at the bottom of this web page. The pages on this downloadable version of the geocache passport will fall a little differently from the original passport. If you want it to look more like the original: duplex print, trim to size, staple in upper left-hand corner and fold in half. However, it is not necessary to do so if you are seeking a geo coin and need to have the pages validated. Full-size, individually printed pages are acceptable.