WEEK’S EXPLORE OUTDOORS. WHEN WE GET UP HERE, WE’LL WANT TO TURN TO THE LEFT. HIKING THROUGH THE DOWNTOWN COMMONS MAY NOT SEEM LIKE AN ADVENTURE. MAYBE JUST THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MACY’S BUILDING, BUT ...

Geocaching is an outdoor activity using GPS to find hidden containers (caches). Participants use a smartphone app to locate caches, often hidden in public places like parks. Once found, geocachers ...

Bryan Roth had been hiking and scrambling for a while, with drop-offs evident around him, when his guides held out coveralls and pointed between two rocks. “We have to go in the hole,” one said. Roth ...

If on a recent weekday afternoon you saw an otherwise sane-seeming thirtysomething woman running her hands along a chain-link fence in the parking lot of Philippe the Original or thrashing around in ...

Wow — this is a lot of canisters, log sheets and trackables. Geocaching.com, the database of record for the worldwide geocaching community, is poised to reach a major milestone in a matter of days: 2 ...

As physical collections shrink in response to the digital revolution, most libraries are looking for ways to keep the turnstile spinning. In central New York near Syracuse, Liverpool Public Library ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. A tiny geocache was supposed to be ...

Lisa Lopez is one gung-ho geocacher. Lopez, 60, of Manlius, leads Central New York and is fifth in the state overall when it comes to most geocache “finds” with a career total of more than 62,000, ...

On a recent too-hot morning at Papago Park, I try my hand at a high-tech treasure hunt that’s become an international craze. It’s called geocaching, and it’s both tougher and more fun than I expected.

Last July, Elyza Peterson of Manchester and I added a geocache in Manchester to find.It included a little trackable device, which has made it all the way to Texas."It's traveled over 2,000 miles," she ...