According to the New York Capital Region Geocachers there are definite guidelines for where and how you are allowed to place a cache.  To be sure we all are compliant and don’t cause any animosity toward geocachers in general, I thought it would be good to summarize some of the guidelines.  You may remember that Geocaching is currently banned in all National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges. This includes the Appalachian Trail which is a National Park; therefore caches may not be placed inside or in close proximity to it.  There are several other areas in New York State which are specifically listed as off limits to geocaching. They are listed in detail at geocachingny.org, and you may want to take a good look at this list before accidentally placing a geocache where it is forbidden.  As for New York State in general, we have been asked to NOT place caches on mountain tops or right at the overlooks. Please be sure to keep caches down within the tree line.

Most land managers they talked with about geocaching insisted that all containers be labeled as a GEOCACHE on the OUTSIDE. Since that is already in the cache listing guidelines the importance of this should be stressed again.  Well, now that you know some of the guidelines to follow, it is time to grab your Garmin Colorado or other handheld gps units and get out and have some fun finding all those geocaches that have already been hidden.  Maybe you will even be adventurous enough to hide some of your own!