Emily (aka Redforkhippie) recently started a new Route 66 project in the Tulsa area.
Noting the lack of geocaches along the two main Route 66 alignments of 11th Street and Admiral Place in Tulsa, she is volunteering to set up such sites for businesses or property owners along the Mother Road.
On her blog, she wrote:
For those unfamiliar with geocaching, it’s basically a sort of treasure-hunting game in which participants use GPS devices to locate hidden “caches,” which are waterproof containers that are placed outdoors, camouflaged to match their surroundings, and contain a log for finders to sign. Larger caches also include small souvenirs, toys, or trinkets for trading.
The advantage of hosting a cache, of course, is that it brings additional traffic onto your property, which is why I’d like to place as many as possible outside businesses along Route 66 here in Tulsa. […]
If a Route 66 business owner outside of the Tulsa area would like help placing a cache, I can do that, too, but someone who lives in your area will have to be responsible for registering and maintaining it.
If you want a geocache on your property on Route 66 in Tulsa, you can comment on her site, or you can comment on this story below. She’ll also contact other geocachers to help set up sites along other Route 66 properties outside of Tulsa.
You can email her at sundayjohn66(at)mac(dot)com.
(Photo of a GPS unit courtesy of graur razvan ionut.)
We love Geocaching and have combined “caching” with traveling Rt 66. We have placed several caches in the Yukon / El Reno areas. One of the things we love about caching is that some of them are placed by local cachers who put them at little known historical or interesting spots. We have found a number of really fun Rt 66 locations that were not in any guide book we knew of but only because there were Geocaches hidden there. We placed one west of El Reno at an old drive in movie theater about a block south of 66.
There are at least two “series” of caches in Oklahoma and a number of individual ones. A quick search on the Geocaching website using the term “Route 66” turned up over 1,000 caches.
Up in Illinois and Missouri the cachers are very active on Rt 66 and have developed a standard page format for them.
Up near Tulsa we met a couple looking for a cache on a bridge on Rt 66. What was really cool is that they were here from Germany to cache all along the Mother Road.
Caching and 66, they just go together!