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

NOTE: 11/28/22 5:00 PM: AN EMAIL TO EXPIRED MEMBERS WAS SENT TO ALL MEMBERS BY OUR WEB SERVICE. PLEASE DON'T PANIC!

The Nomination and Election Process for officers in the Executive Committee and Regional Vice Presidents is moving to the December-February time frame from the October-December time frame. The reason for the change is that terms of office have been updated to be from March 1st through the end of February, two years later.

Susan K. Schug Scholarship application will be open November 1st through January 31st. See the "More MiGO" section below.

MZIP2022 Caching Contest is in its final week. Remember to record your finds using the MZIP2022:FoundOne form by Sunday night.

MiGO Holiday 2022 Contest entry is open so you can do some planning. Contest starts November 16th and runs through New Year's Eve. Scroll down to November-December Promotions to find the contest page.

Winners of the Winter Social 2023 Pathtag Design Contest are shown in September Promotions below. Six tags have been selected to be part of the WS23 SWAG package, along with the first of a series of throwback license plate coins. Watch for a sale announcement on October 1st.

GC9WJ2F: Winter Social 2023, February 23th-26th, 2023, Manistee. Registration will open by November 1st. Do you want to help? Send an email to webmaster@mi-geocaching.org.

Zoom... Focus... Click! - September 2022

Congratulations to:
1st Place -K&A Enterprises
2nd Place -Equine1030
3rd Place -mermaidsh
Honorable Mentions: beenhere & RedhedMary

Prizes have been created and will be mailed.

Only Days left to get this coin!

13 Lake Superior Members are up for renewal by November 30th

39 Lake Superior Members have now allowed their membership to Expire

If you are one of these 52, don't miss your chance to earn this coin.

If you are a Lake Huron, Lake St. Clair or Trial member and not up for renewal, request an Upgrade from the Membership Menu.

ONLY HALF of the Lake Superior Members have told us how they want their coin(s) and how they want to get them. Please visit the Additional Data on your MiGO Profile NOW!

The MiGO 20th Anniversary Geocoin is available to order in the MiGO Store. Get yours before they are gone.

February Promotions

Winter Social, 2023

February 23-26, 2023
A Long Weekend of Winter Caching Fun in Manistee

Registration is now open!

2023 Winter Social Webpage

SWAG Package avaiable in the MiGO Store through November 30th!

2023

Winter Social

Gadget Cache and

Creative Cache Contest

2023 WS Gadget & Creative Cache Contest

November-December Promotions

MiGO Holiday 2022 Contest

A New Objective Every Day! Lots of Bonus Opportunities!

Open to ALL Members
and MiGO FB Group Members

Entry Opens
11/1/22
for pre-planning!

Contest Starts
11/16/21

ContestEnds
12/31/21

MiGO Holiday 2022 Details and Entry

We realize this is overlapping the MZIP22 contest. We are opening entry early to give everyone a chance to plan ahead.

November Promotions

Zoom... Focus... Click! - November 2022

MiGO Monthly Photo Contest. Winners (Top 3) will get a special trackable to be used in yet another contest, coming soon.

This contest runs November 1st through November 30th. Reminder: only photos taken during the contest period are eligible. The theme for the November contest is:

Thankful for the Hunt

Click the button to submit a photo.
You may submit 1, 2 or 3 photos per contest.
Please submit only your own current photos.
Remember, landscape photos look better on our scroller.
Membership picks the winner.

REMEMBER TO WEAR ORANGE
RESPECT THE DEER HUNTERS!

October Promotions

MZIP22 Contest

Six weeks of fun and new targets every week.

Details and Entry

... and the winners are:

Most Points: K&A Enterprises
With 116 points, K&A Enterprises was the clear winner in this category. They scored the only 5 point bonus for finding a cache using all of the two digit codes in a week. To top that off, K&A Enterprises also won the October Photo Contest. Hats off for this achievement.

Drawing Winner: CCSquire.
Since CCSquire won the Michigan Fauna Word Search in September, 2021, and also won a membership extension at that time, they are not elibigle for another membership extension. Because of that, CCSquire gets the first choice of the two vintage geocoins shown below.

Summary of results: MZIP2022 Results

August, 2012 Geocoin of the Month Club coin:

7th Anniversary

Goes to
K&A Enterprises

September, 2012 Geocoin of the Month Club coin:

Sure Footed

Selected by CCSquire

September Promotions

Winter Social 2023 Pathtag Design Contest Winners

We selected 6 of 17 designs to be included in the WS SWAG Bag, available to order October 1st.

Hoosier Sparty Sledding
Hockey
Skating
Nature Mousse Snowshoeing
Skiing
Team Nix Ice Fishing

Ongoing Promotions

Now Live!

Michigan Waterways Adventures

7 Adventures in 4 Regions

10 Labs per Adventure

5 Labs per county
Record the Key Words

visit
Michigan DNR Geocaching Page
for details.

Download the Waterways Adventure Labs Log to record your keywords to earn the prizes.

For questions and help with the Waterways Adventures email MichiganWaterwaysAdventure@gmail.com

Note: Many of the Lab locations are in places without cellular service. ALs can easily be completed without cellular service. Click HERE for instructions.

Update:

October 8th, 2022.

Unfortunately for most who played this contest and for Jodi herself, LiteOnCache was not able to get much of a start on the Waterways Adventures. There were 30 entries in the contest. All guesses have passed with the last being September 15th.

MiGO has declared the player with the last guess, Wayward Wanderers, the winner of this contest. Since none of the other entrants had a chance of winning, a random drawing was held of the other 29 entrants. DanTMan&Co was the winner of that drawing. Prizes for the two will be sent from the MiGO Store Manager.

MiGO would like to apologize to all participants and thank them for playing. We had good intentions, but unfortunately, they did not work out. We do hope this does not sour the players for future promotions.

The Latest from the GeoTour

November 10th, 2022.

We reached 7500 Favorite Points!

Michigan State Parks GeoTour
has been officially extended through
September 24th, 2024!

Here are the latest GeoTour stats, as of November 3rd, 2022:

Logged
Finds:
50,546

Individual
Cachers:
7,828

Favorite
Points:
7500

Geocoins
Earned:
Silver:
249
Gold:
210

News from the DNR: For those of you who have earned your Silver and/or Gold coins, the DNR has more coins ordered, so please be patient. It takes time to get them.

As many of you know, our own "Kneel More" is an avid and prolific filmmaker with regards to the game of Geocaching. Kneel and his friend Bob Billy have dozens of informative and often hilarious videos in his YouTube collection. Kneel has created a series of videos while caching the MSPC GeoTour. To view the videos, click on the images below.

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 celebreating 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 backupsfor the primary hiders:

beenhere, DirtBikeGranny, epoch13, Working4Cache

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

MiGO Susan K. Schug Scholarship

In memory of one of its past members, the Michigan Geocaching Organization will be sponsoring a $300.00 scholarship aimed at assisting our next generation of Michigan youth in their studies of outdoor recreational activities, in hopes of helping them gain an appreciation of the outdoors while learning to be good stewards of Michigan's land conservation and the environment in general.

Any active MiGO member, their spouse or their child or grandchild, who will be attending a college or university, is eligible to apply for this scholarship. Details and a link to the application form can be found on the

MiGO Scholarship Page

Promote MiGO on your Geocache Page

MiGO members are encouraged to identify geocaches as being owned by a MiGO Member. We have had a page containing sample logos and other graphics for MiGO Cache Owners to include on their own cache pages. Recently, HQ tightened their security, breaking many COs links to graphics and other pages. Neither our old host or our new one were included in the acceptable list.

The good news is, we have placed the graphics on our own Google Drive space and updated the page with the logos and code to go with them.

The bad news is, we would like all of our members to update all geocache pages that used our older host with code for the new location of the graphics.

Click the link below to see what is available and copy the new code to your cache pages.

Add a MiGO Logo to your cache page

Notable Membership Activity over the Last Two Months

Trial Members

Lokie Beast (welcome)
WolfeBeast (welcome)
Winos_Seattle (welcome)

Lake Huron

sgerbs (renew)
AlphaRK9 (renew)
GreatLakesCacher (renew)
Sunshinegang (new)
kirtlandii (renew)
K&A Enterprises (renew)
marshajean (renew)
lusterlady (new)

Lake Superior

Ranger Sue (renew)
Acker3Family (renew)
K&A Enterprises (upgrade)
jtcoffee (renew)
Team Peterson (renew)
CynJa (new)
VBClan4 (renew)
HelloLola (renew)
Stuffedcabbage (renew)
Piperollie1 (renew)
AACacheHoppers (new)
The Trent's (renew)
Ypsimom (renew)
periwinlke128 (renew)
Princess&Dutch (renew)
M0m0f5 (renew)
Sky'sRiders (renew)
iMerge (renew)
siamesedrummer (renew)
Silent Whistles (renew)
SpartanHope (renew)
singingstoker (renew)
PairOMedicChick (renew)
M0m0f5 (renew)
RXWranglers (renew)
loumeister (renew)
ekotus (renew)
indenyl (renew)
xpird (renew)
Merlin1392 (renew)
JHBDFamily (renew)

Lake Superior
Honor Roll