Welcome!!!!

You have reached the homepage of the Michigan Geocaching Organization (MiGO). The purpose of our organization is to promote the sport of geocaching in Michigan via improved communications and to provide information to the public about our activities and the sport of geocaching. Please spend some time on our site. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us or visit www.geocaching.com for more details.

Join MiGO today! Membership gives you many benefits. MiGO is one of the oldest and most respected geocaching organizations in the country. Since our inception in April 2002, we have grown both in size and stature. In 2007, we were granted an organizational land use permit by the Michigan DNR. This permit enables MiGO members to place caches on permitted DNR lands, with the appropriate permit where required, at no fee. This is just one of the many benefits of your membership. You'll also become part of a local and tight-knit geocaching community with an active interest in caching in our state. Members have access to our forums and are encouraged to participate. We also have a very active Facebook group, which is a great place to meet cachers and learn the game.

To join, renew, or upgrade your membership, pull down the Membership menu.

Announcements

Camp MiGO 2025
August 2, 2025
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For more details, please see the event page.
Please check the event page often for updates!

We are looking for financial supporters for the upcoming Michigan State Park GeoTour.

A GeoTour is expensive, and MiGO operates on a limited budget. You can help support the new GeoTour through the Cache Appreciation Program (CAP).

Each $12 donation will get your cacher name displayed on a GeoTour cache page with "Special Thanks." Each cache has room for two cachers to help and be recognized. Click on the links below for additional information:

Northern Lower Peninsula CAP
Southern Lower Peninsula CAP
Upper Peninsula CAP

MiGO Which Way? Challenge
Your challenge this month is to find or hide geocaches containing the words North, East, South, or West. There are also 4 secret directional words you can receive points for.

This challenge runs from March 15, 2025, to April 30, 2025. Results must be submitted no later than May 5, 2025. For more information, click on the links below:

MiGO Which Way? Challenge
Results Form
Project-GC Checker

Ongoing Promotions

Michigan County
Grid Challenge

A really BIG challenge for everyone! This is not a contest. Everyone can qualify for a reward, not to mention bragging rights!

The challenge is a multi-year commitment by the MiGO Challenge Committee, EC, and Board. Can you cover half of the state (Bronze), three quarters of the state (Silver), or the entire state (Gold), finding an assortment of geocache types in 42, 63, or 83 counties? Who will top the leaderboard out of the gate? Who will be the first to claim a prize? Who will be first to reach for the Gold?

Check your progress here: Checker

DNR Centennial Geocache Trail -
Trust the Tradition

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is celebrating its centennial year in 2021. Jay's Sporting Goods is celebrating their 50th anniversary. To celebrate, the DNR is partnering with Jay's Sporting Goods with help from MiGO putting together a geocache trail (not a GeoTour) of fifty caches in four regions of Michigan, one region at a time. Jay's is supplying the actual geocaches that will be hidden with our assistance. Search the state for caches named "DNR TTT - Adventure" in their name.

We want to recognize the following cachers for stepping up to help. Numbers in parenthesis indicate multiple sites:

2277, aghudley, Bainers1103, bgscrabble, ccsquire, Cinamuck, coolmamaof5, DanTMan&Co (2), Gdpunkgirl73, Grayseelou' HelloLola, iatsemedic, IFollowRoads, K&A Enterprises (2), kirtlandii (2), kitedancer, LiteOnCache, Loumiester, Mermaidsh, Piperollie1, Pirate Sunflower (3), Ranger4+1, redwings01win, SeasonsGuide (3). Stuffedcabbage, Team Nix (2), The Macho Homemaker, theworldisoutthere (5), TJPost (2), Traveling Dave, usyoopers (5), Ypsimom (2).

We would also like to recognize the following additional cachers who volunteered as backups for the primary hiders:

beenhere, DirtBikeGranny, epoch13, Working4Cache

Thank you all so much for helping bring this joint effort to fruition.

Promote MiGO on your Geocache Page

MiGO members are encouraged to identify geocaches as being owned by a MiGO member. We have a page containing sample logos and other graphics for MiGO cache owners to include on their own cache pages:

Add a MiGO logo to your cache page

MiGO Newsletter

MiGO encourages members to submit content for its quarterly newsletter. Submissions should be related to caching or the MiGO community and can include (but are not limited to) write-ups on specific caches or events, a story about a caching experience, a tribute to another cacher (past or present), or even caching tips. Please use this link to submit your content for consideration:

Newsletter Submissions