Manitoba Geocaching Association

[Hockey_family]

Hey everyone, were going on vacation to Phoenix and were wondering if there are any good places to cache down there. Were in Peoria.
Thanks!

[glacier_ice]

Hey, send a message to MissionMode, he's down there right now.

[Old Billygoat]

If you do some pocket queries by dates you will find several old caches placed in 2000, 2001, etc. Great for ruylopez’s Jasmer challenge caches.

[MissionMode]

So that's why my ears are so itchy.

Good places to cache might be too simple a question.

You've already cached many of the places I have there. My parent's condo is on the other side of town, though... so I don't know how handy my other suggestions will be.

Down near Apache Junction there is a place called Lost Dutchmen state park. There are a lot of nice easy caches there and its a great place to hike and visit. There is an "old mine" there called Goldfield (the truth of which I'm no longer certain due to a few comments I overheard last week) which is a fun tourist attraction, and there is even a new cache right in the tourist area there. I only noticed it once we were leaving. The area around Goldfield has seen a dramatic increase in caches since I was first there 2 years ago. Even a short powertrail less than a mile south.

Past Goldfield on the same road you can find your way to an old ghost town called Tortilla Flat. There are a couple of caches in town and a fun saloon to have lunch in. Between Lost Dutchmen and Tortilla Flat is a river / lake system called Canyon Lake. You can rent canoe and kayak there and if you were inclined there are a few Terrain 5 caches you can only reach that way. My family took a patio boat and we didn't want to bring it close enough to get any of the caches.

I have completed a fair portion of a powertrail that runs along South Recker Road in Mesa. There are about 100 fairly easy caches and you could probably get most of them in about 4-5 hours. I think I have 60 of them now. Also in that area, but further West in Gilbert on E Guadeloupe Road (at Lindsay) is Freestone District Park. We went there because they have a good skate park, but there also happen to be a variety of other things to do and about 10 caches. A beautiful place and a nice 90 minute walk.

Of course you and I have talked about Sedona and Bell Rock. TechDeckPerson really wanted to climb Bell Rock so we made it a destination this year. However we only made it about halfway up. Still a great hike and an amazing view, but clearly a lot of other people of all ages are more sure of their footing than I am. Sadly that meant I got neither of the caches there. In retrospect I might have been able to reach one. I thought it was higher than we went but I'm no longer sure.