Geocaching in Framingham
Framingham is part of the world's largest treasure hunt.
People love to visit Cushing Memorial Park in Framingham. It's a fun place to walk around and enjoy the great outdoors. For kids, there's a playground. fun places to ride their bikes, and lots of open space to run around or fly a kite.
Did you know there's a treasure in Cushing Memorial Park? No, not buried treasure.
The treasure is place by people participating in Geocaching - the world's larges treasure hunt.
What is Geocaching
If you're new to the concept of geocaching, think of it as a giant treasure hunt. Players stash goodies in publicly accessible outdoor locations, then post the GPS coordinates of these prizes on Geocaching.com. When other players find these hidden gems, they post their victory on the site's forums and then put the prize back for others to locate in turn.
Geocaching in Framingham
As of today, there are 26 geocaches in Framingham and 16 of those are places in the vicinity of Cushing Memorial Park. That's a lot is a lot considering one of the rules of placing geocache:
Geocache containers and physical stages of different geocaches must be at least 0.1 miles (528 feet or 161 meters) apart.
A physical stage is any object placed by the cache owner, such as a container or a tag.
Five Things We Learned
Some of the things we learned, without giving any clues to the location of the geocaches.
- The geocaches are spread out through the park. It's fun to watch the kids try to find them based on vague hints and generic map locations.
- None of the geocaches are buried - as per rule.
- Some of the geocaches have places to jot down your name in a log. Bring a fine pen to write down your name.
- A few of the geocaches have small trinkets. You can take one and leave small tchotchke for the next treasure hunter. Tchotchkes can be found at the dollar store.
- Some of the geocaches are very well designed and really hard to find. Don't be discorage if you don't find it!
Fun Time at Cushing!
It will take about 45-minutes to find the geocache in the park. This is based on the complexity of the treasure hunt and the distance between the locations.