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The second 2025 hiding theme: Back to nature! 🌲🍃

In 2025, we’re celebrating a major milestone—25 years of geocaching! To mark this special anniversary, we’re introducing a new hiding theme per quarter to celebrate geocaches published in 2025. Every three months, we’ll feature geocaches from the previous quarter’s theme on the Geocaching Blog and social media.

We’re leaping with joy at the number of nominations we received for the first theme, Frogs. While we compile a few favorites for the first feature, we wanted to share the excitement as we prepare for next quarter’s theme!

The second theme: Back to nature 🌲🍃

There are countless possibilities for what you can attach a container to, place a container under, or use to make a geocache. Be creative, but make sure to follow the geocache hiding guidelines.

Ways to participate:

  • Hide a geocache with a nature theme in 2025. Nominate your cache by completing this form between March 26 and June 5, 2025.
  • Find a geocache with a nature theme. Nominate the cache by completing this form between March 26 and June 5, 2025.
  • Share on Instagram: Post photos and tag @geocaching. Use the hashtag #GeoHT25 for a chance to be featured on our Instagram Stories.

Examples to inspire:

  • Natural camouflage—logs, rocks, pinecones (the possibilities are endless!)
  • Geocaches with a great view
  • Animals and insects
  • Fairy/gnome garden houses
  • EarthCaches showcasing interesting geological features
  • A geocache at the end of your favorite hike or trail
  • Geocaches in and around the water
This busy bee may not look real, but it sure is cute! Image by gc_lachende_bine.
This camouflaged cache will hide right under your nose as you search everywhere else. Image by geocaching_teamnibu.
Perhaps the most devious cache in existence. Images by martyn_alice.
Delivery drivers can never find this house! Image by geocachingadventure_germany.
You have to really trust nature to try this find. Image by biotonne88.
Not only back to nature, but thriving in nature. Image by filipassuncao.
Catch of the day! Image by don_pipolino_.
Even the tiniest caches can be big in the evil department. Image by mojos_geocaching_adventures.
Actually, this may be the most devious cache out there. Images by azzo.geocaching.

Want more inspiration? Check out the Shop Geocaching Back to Nature collection and the 2024’s Cache Hiding themes! 

We can’t wait to see the creative caches you share this year!

Nikki
Nikki is a Community Manager at Geocaching HQ. Her specialties include making cheesy puns, talking endlessly about coffee, and being the only Californian who enjoys rain. She is passionate about geocaching and loves that it brings communities together.