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

The April Photo Contest entrants and winners are scrolling just below. The May contest is open. See April Promotions.

In The Beginning Contest starts(ed) May 15 and runs through June 30th. See June Promotions.

MiGO BiRTHDAY BiNGO winners are posted below in April Promotions.

MiGO will have a tent at the Kirtland Warbler Festival in Roscommon on June 4th. A GC101 event is also being held. Stop in and see us. If you would like to volunteer to help, use the Volunteer portal under the About menu.

MiGO will have a table at Midwest Geobash in Wauseon, Ohio July 23rd in the Arena.

GC9K62M: Camp MiGO 4, Weekend of August 20th at Sleepy Hollow State Park.

Save the Date: Winter Social 2023, February 25th-27th, 2023, Manistee.
Planning is well underway. Do you want to help? Send an email to webmaster@mi-geocaching.org.

The 2022 MiGO General Member Meeting was held via ZOOM call at 7PM, January 23rd. To view the recorded meeting, click here.

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Congratulations to
1st Place -Sarahjo27
2nd Place -bgscrabble
3rd Place -llsiki

Prizes will be available to
current and past winners
at the 20th Anniversary Picnic.

The MiGO 20th Anniversary Geocoin is available to order in the MiGO Store. Have it delivered or pick it up at Camp MiGO or MWGB. Get yours before they are gone.

June Promotions

Logo recreated from the banner at the 4/27/2002 Picnic

In The Beginning Caching Contest

In The Beginning there was only one region: A nice, green Michigan. There were far fewer geocachers and far fewer geocaches. Many of those geocachers are still playing the game and still providing fun for the rest of us.

This challenge will involve a blast from the past. You will be looking for geocaches hidden by the old school cachers. Your challenge will be to find geocaches hidden by the Early Michigan Geocachers and by Charter Members of Geocaching.com, no matter when, or where they hid them (up to the start of this contest).

Contest starts:
May 15th

Entry closes:
June 25th

Contest ends
June 30th

Details & Entry

May Promotions

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MiGO Monthly Photo Contest. Winners will get a special trackable to be used in yet another contest.

This contest runs May 1st through May 31st. The theme is:

Memories and Memorials

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

MiGO 20th Anniversary Picnic

May 7th, Grand Woods Park, Lansing

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Thank you all for coming, making this an event to remember. See you again in five years? Don't forget your attended log.

April Promotions

MiGO BiRTHDAY BiNGO

Drawings were held at the MiGO 20th Anniversary Picnic. Congratulations to the winners:

The winner of the first drawing , the March, 2012 Geocoin of the Month Club coin, Ninja Throwing Star shown at left, and a one year membership extension is
Jordand30.

The winner of the second drawing, for players with coverall BiNGO cards, the May 2012 Geocoin of the Month club coin Indiana Jones, is
3bearsmomma.

Three additional drawings were held for the remaining players who received grab bags from the MiGO Store. The winners were:
Sludge_Shoveler, RDC4106 and CCSquire.

$5 off MiGO membership coupons for Trial and Facebook members were won by:
flyguysgal and HetzelMI.

Ongoing Promotions

The Latest from the GeoTour

February 2nd, 2022.

7230 Favorite Points later...
MiGO, the DNR and Geocaching.com
are very pleased to announce that the

Michigan State Parks GeoTour
has been officially extended through

September 24th, 2024!

Here are the latest GeoTour stats, as of April 1st, 2022:

Logged
Finds:
46,809

Individual
Cachers:
6,607

Favorite
Points:
7257

Geocoins
Earned:
Silver:
226
Gold:
191

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.

MiGO/OGA Great Race

The Great Race, hosted in cooperation by the Michigan Geocaching Organization and the Ohio Geocaching Association has been kicked off at Midwest Geobash. The official page for the race and where tracking will take place is hosted on the OGA website. It will be populated shortly. It can be found at:

MiGO/OGA Great Race Page

Official rules for the Great Race can be found at:

MiGO/OGA Great Race Rules

A limited number of official racers will be available from the MiGO Store within a few days. Racers are limited to two per geocaching account.

MiGO Store

Please read the rules before activating your racer. This is not your typical Trackable Race.

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.

Welcome to our new officers:

Executive Committee Members: Rob Nix (Team Nix), taking on the role of Compliance Officer. Joel Wilkins (iatsemedic) has stepped up to fill a vacant At Large position.

Southwest Regional is, again, vacant.

Congratulations to:

Our new Executive Committee Vice President, Jodi Spalding (LiteOnCache). Jodi has been on the EC as a Member at Large for two years.

And a huge THANK YOU to outgoing officers:

Executive Committee Member, Tim Green (Merlin1392) who served 4 years as Vice President. Tim also has been and will continue to be MiGO's representative in an organization of geocaching organizations (official name pending?). Tim has also agreed to continue as a volunteer on a couple of MiGO committees.

Executive Committee Member, Lou Cousinaw (DirtBikeGranny) who served 1 year as a Member at Large and 2 years as the Compliance Officer. Lou has agreed to continue helping on a couple MiGO committees.

We are still in the market for a SW Regional Vice President to help with and represent MiGO at events in the area.

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

Nana Bouwman (welcome)
Dialyn68 (welcome)
flyguysgal (welcome)
AjtoZj (welcome)
STEM (welcome)
Silver91748 (welcome)
leanneapril (welcome)
StarFire (welcome)

Lake Huron

pee-paw (renew)
HetzelMI (new)
Teambaker101 (renew)
Strong Rogues (renew)
PROBOB (ren&upg)
zekefritter (renew)
Ozland (new)
The Seed Spreaders (renew)
TheCrazy8's (new)
bgscrabble (renew)
sci_bugs (renew)
mdshaw16 (renew)
KWGT (renew)

Lake Superior

mdeanbbn (renew)
GeoScout4 (new)
kovuisking (new)
Cinamuck (ren&upg)
jordand30 (winner, BiRTHDAY BiNGO)
Sl0ther (renew)
mkettel (renew)
NightTrails (renew)
LarryRobyn (new)
Paddling Pirates (renew)
8_is_Enough (renew)
Noah's Peeps (renew)
Hooked On U (ren&upg)
IFollowRoads (renew)
DanTMan&Co (renew)
DirtBikeGranny (renew)
SnoringEagles (renew)
mboensch (renew)
2girls1gps (re&upg)
mockingjay3 (new)
IdaLabs (renew)
Dmw2m (renew)
Bapman Crew (renew)
Sarahjo27 (renew)
Red Hat Grandma (renew)
lightkeeperJane (renew)
OakCrestGal (renew)
salplus2 (ren&upg)
thePastoor (new)
angelsunshine (ren&upg)
MoDaRiMa (upgrade)
Ranger4+1 (upgrade)
Cosmo411 (renewed)
iatsemedic (new)
Scook (upgrade)
The BlueDog Team (MiGOCluedo winner)
MsPackrat (new)
candzsloot (renew)
ScoutMom5 (renew)
Harrise1 (renew)
RedhedMary (renew)

Lake Superior
Honor Roll