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On our geocaching podcast today, we have a discussion of National Parks and geocaching, CITO weekend planning, an FTF hunt with the new Geocaching app, some creative cache logs, the WWFM Geocoin and much more.
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GC HQ Release Notes about the new Worldwide Search
Galaxy Cache: Exploring the Final Frontier
Geocaching Map of Galaxy Caches
Cache In Trash Out® Events
6 Steps to organize a Cache In, Trash Out (CITO) event
7th annual Pick and Pull - CITO in Kentucky
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
National Parks Free Admission Days
MGS CAM Info - in Maryland
2016 CAM Information Page
WWFM XIII Official Event Geocoin - ORDER NOW!
WWFM XIII Bookmark List
The Official WWFM website
Tons of Fun Ideas for a Geocaching Flash Mob: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
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Here’s a thought that combines two topics on the show. Astronut was trying out the new app and ecrane was talking about voice dictation then tweaking the dictated logs at home. It appears there is not a way to do save your found logs for later tweaking and publication in the new app as there was in the classic. Any of creative, intelligent and good looking listeners out there have ideas?
Great question. Hope that is something they add.
Kee-tow? Maybe CITO is spoken like it’s Italian, which would make it “Chee-toe”? Hmm, maybe I’ll bring Cheetos to the next CITO đŸ™‚
Hmmmm. Why am I hungry now?!?
Thank you for another interesting show. As a tourist from the Netherlands, I have been to several national parks, but not those that you mentioned in the show. However, I did visit the smallest National Park in the United States. Let that be a challenge for you to find out which one that is.
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Interesting question! According to https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/faqs.htm the smallest is Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial, PA, at 0.02 acres (although that’s a “memorial”, not a “park”. Wikipedia claims the smallest National Park is Hot Springs in Arkansas (22.5 km2). Another site says “America’s smallest national park takes up only a few square yards in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. The David Berger National Memorial consists of a sculpture on the grounds of the Mandel Jewish Community Center.” So which “smallest” National Park did YOU visit?
Yes, you found it! Wow!
I went to the one about Thaddeus Kosciuszko in Baltimore. I agree, it is not a National Park in the sense of a park. I heard about it once on a podcast from NPR radio and they said it was on the same list as these other big and famous parks. It is 0.02 acres but still it made an impression on me (perhaps because it was so small?) and the site is a page in the History Of America book. But easy to be overlooked.
Now for the fun part! Pronounce it!
Easy for me. Kosciusko (no z) is a little community just SE of San Antonio Texas. I can pronounce Co-chews-co, but if I had to spell it….
Btw it was Philadelphia, not Baltimore.