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Another year of geocaching is over and what a year it was. 2022 was full of new geocaches and Adventures, “Found it” logs, and exciting Events including our 20th Anniversary Celebration. As we start the new year, we wanted to share a look back at all the geocaching that happened in 2022. Here are 18 statistics highlighting the community’s geocaching achievements from the past year:

2022 Year in Review

Geocaching Hides and Finds

• On average geocachers found 43 geocaches this year
• With 83,720,498 find logs posted, 1,940,875 geocachers found at least one geocache
• August 20, 2022 had the most finds of the year with 640,264 total finds
• Top 5 countries with the most Find logs were:
  Germany
  United States
  Netherlands
  France
  United Kingdom
• Top 5 countries with the most new geocache hides were:
  United States
  Germany
  France
  Canada
  United Kingdom
• 69,661 geocachers hid a geocache
• 23,096 geocachers hid their first geocache
• 13,003 geocachers hosted an Event
• Geocachers awarded 3,681,896 total Favorite points
• The global community of geocachers has 26,577,454 Favorite points available to award to caches

Community

• • The most liked Instagram post of 2022: You don’t need any super-strength to find this cache
  • The most shared Facebook post of 2022: Do your geo-senses immediately start tingling when you’re near a brick wall?
  • The most viewed TikTok post of 2022: How some see geocaching vs. how we see geocaching
  • The most viewed blog post of 2022: Introducing Signal’s Labyrinth

Adventures

• 58,238 active Adventures.
• 25,082 new Adventures created.
• 3,754,998 Adventures were completed
• Top 5 countries with the most Adventures were:
  Germany
  United States
  France
  United Kingdom
  Netherlands

Here’s to a safe and healthy 2023!