Hi, Jessica!

Glad to see that you are taking your students into the outdoors for some of their education. You didn’t say how much time you were going to be spending at Devil’s Lake or when you were going, but there is quite enough to keep you busy there without doing any geocaching.

But since we’re a geocaching group, we’d say, “Of course! Go geocaching!” 😉 As far as access to GPS receivers, most Wisconsin state parks should have some units for individuals and groups to check out for use while they are in the parks. These would be basic handheld units that would require hand-entering of coordinates of geocaches before the search, unless park personnel have done this already for their parks. The units should have instructions and directions that go along with them.

You might want to contact the people at Devil’s Lake Sate Park directly to see what they have there. They might even have a naturalist or activity person to help you and your group when you visit. As for actual geocaches in the park, there are not that many for the size of the park. Some of those are in the rockier areas and would require strenuous hikes to them. If you work with park personnel to get something set up, you might be able to have them hide temporary caches as part of their program just for your group to look for the day(s) you are there.

For all of the basics of geocaching, you can go to the main geocaching website to look up everything you might want to know about the activity. That would be at: http://www.geocaching.com … And keep coming back here with your questions and concerns. If you don’t get around to doing all of this on your upcoming visit, you can save it until next time, or you can even check out parks and rec programs closer to you to become more familiar with geocaching. There are often free workshops and presentations to help people learn about this activity that we all enjoy so much!