Geocaches, Pizzas and Friends - Seneca County

TaGeez, ShelleyJean, and I headed to Seneca County with our new friend, geostasee. For today we are enjoying the Slice of Seneca County Geotrail!

geostasee, ShelleyJean, scrapcat, and TaGeez

Under clear blue skies and with a lovely breeze, we spent our Saturday finding 19 traditionals, letterboxes, multis and a puzzle from Fostoria into Tiffin and out to Attica. Each cache was associate or located near a different pizza place, and, with every find, we punched or wrote a passcode on our passports to earn a really cool (2-piece) Pizza Tour Geocoin served up in a mini pizza box!

Seneca County is very friendly to geocachers - this is not the first tour we enjoyed here. As we stopped at the Caverns, walked the trails of the preserves, or stood outside the parlors gathering puzzle clues, friendly locals cheered us on and were fabulously positive.

We lunched at a Tiffin diner, but dinner was a highlight at Reino's Pizza & Pasta in downtown Tiffin. Founded in the 1950's, the staff was friendly, and the owner stopped at our table twice. Dinner for us was a delicious Hawaiian Pizza Foldover and Garlic Bread with cheese! Next time we visit we'll return to try the pasta.

Our favorite geocaches of the day were the SSCG 04: 🍕 Here Today, Gone Tomato GCA9D2T at the local library and Iron Triangle Rail Park Caboose (Webcam) Virtual GC9P8VX.

Thank you to Seneca County for another fabulous experience. We appreciated the well-maintained caches taking us across the county plus the ability to pick-up our geocoins at the local hotel at the end.

International Geocaching Day - 2023

Seneca County GeoTrail

Strep throat has knocked me on my butt, but I don't regret the adventure we had a little over a week ago.

ShelleyJean and I were perusing the latest lists of GeoTrails with rewards when Shelley discovered one just a hundred miles away offering trackable walking sticks as a reward! I shouted out the good news to TaGeez, and he, with a great sigh, replied, "Ok, let me get my pants." 

Seneca County GeoTrail

I'm glad TaGeez is such a sport. Otherwise he would've missed so much! Giant heads on front lawns. A headstone proclaiming the occupant was at Walmart. Totem Poles and tiny driving paths. The look on ShelleyJean's face when the Shake Shak cashier passed the walking sticks (broomsticks with wrist straps) out the drive-thru window and into Shelley's car! That was priceless!

Trackable Seneca County Walking Stick

We earned the last two walking sticks available. We also visited a half dozen cemeteries and checked off several new Ohio counties on our map. Ah, the memories made with friends! Another geotrail under our belts. Where to next?

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Geotour versus Geotrail?

I was recently corrected online. In simplified terms, a Geotour is an official tour through Geocaching HQ; a Geotrail is an unofficial tour.  

Finding geotrails is not as simple as it would seem. Below are two valuable resources, but we found many, many geotrails (offering geocoins, path tags, t-shirts) simply by Googling local counties. 

• GeocachersCompass.com
• Google Fusion Tables

Before planning your trip, make sure to contact the CO or Visitors Bureau to ensure they still have rewards available (they don't always update their cache pages and websites) and confirm their open days/times for pick-up, where necessary.