Top 10 places to go geocaching

Geocaching is a treasure hunt for the digital generation.Track the co-ordinates on a smartphone app or GPS to find hidden boxes, known as 'caches'.

A rainbow against a stormy sky with a tree silhouetted above the sunny fields in the foreground of the Clent Hills, Worcestershire

Clent Hills, Birmingham 

How many of the Clent Hills' geocaches can you unearth? There are four caches hidden around this special place in Birmingham for you to discover.

Find Clent Hills' treasure
View of the bridge at Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire

Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire 

Bring a smartphone or GPS and take hide and seek to a new level at Clumber Park. With over 20 caches to find, you can enjoy spotting wildlife as you explore the parkland and heath to find the hidden 'treasure'.

Go geocaching at Clumber Park
A family in a summer meadow using a geocache device

Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion 

Hunt for six caches in this wooded Welsh valley. Look out for birds and butterflies as you search the rolling hills and meadows. If you're lucky you may even spot an otter in the river on your adventure.

Go geocaching at Llanerchaeron
Go on a geocaching treasure hunt at Mount Stewart

Mount Stewart, County Down 

Discover the biggest cluster of geocaches in Northern Island at Mount Stewart. With over 40 to seek out, finding some of them is fairly straightforward, while you'll need to solve puzzles to uncover others.

Go geocaching at Mount Stewart
Newark Park, Gloucestershire

Newark Park, Gloucestershire 

Explore Newark Park in Gloucestershire and you'll find more than beautiful scenery. See how many of the nine hidden geocaches you can find.

Find Newark Park's treasure
A girl enjoys geocaching in the great outdoors

Nostell, West Yorkshire 

There's a huge number of geocaches to unearth at Nostell, so grab your friends and family to see if you can find all 22 of them. The geocache locations are spread all over the park, from Obelisk Park to Engine Wood.

Go geocaching at Nostell
Two girls looking at a geocache at Roseberry Topping

Roseberry Topping, North Yorkshire 

Use your smartphone or GPS to discover three geoacaches at Roseberry Topping in Yorkshire, and you'll unlock the secret to find the fourth hidden cache.

Find Roseberry Topping's treasure
Visitors finding a geocache box of treasure at Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve, Cambridgeshire

Tyntesfield, Bristol 

How many of Tyntesfield's six geocaches can you find? Round up your friends and family and go on a treasure hunt in this wooded parkland.

Find Tyntesfield's treasure
Wicken Fen - Geocaching Girls

Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire 

Enjoy our geocaching trail for beginners, as you explore Wicken Fen in search of three geocaches. The three-mile long trail takes around 1.5 hours to complete. You can borrow a GPS receiver with pre-loaded co-ordinates from the Cycle Hire building at Wicken Fen.

Go geocaching at Wicken Fen
GPS devices on a table

Wray Castle, Cumbria 

Go geocaching through the woodland in the grounds of this mock-Gothic castle on the shores of Lake Windermere. You'll be hunting for eight medium sized caches which end up with a a puzzle. Take in some of the best Lakeland views on your way.

Go geocaching at Wray Castle