If you love the outdoors, high-tech equipment and adventure then the hobby of Geocaching is for you! Here at CBEC we have over 10 caches to find so spend the day with family, friends or co-workers, bring lunch and explore the various habitats of the Chesapeake Bay. To find out all about geocaching go to www.geocaching.com or read the Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Geocaching!
CBEC Geocache Coordinates
Geocaching Coordinates
Cache the Center (sm) 2/2 GC19FC7
N 38’56.894 W 76’13.692
CAM Bonus: It’s a Little Piney GC71TXP
N 38’57.138 W 076’13.874
CAM Bonus: Just Around The Corner GC717CO
N 38’56.785 W 76’14.011
SSB-Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center GC22AM6
N 38’57.144 W 076’14.024
Life on the Edge (EarthCache) GC19WY9
N 38’56.966 W 76’13.282
Living in a Salt Marsh (EarthCache) GC19GVE
N 38’57.113 W 76’14.127
Opencaching.us Caches
Geo1 – Part 1 of geocaching hike around Lake Knapp OU078E (opencaching.us)
N 38’56.975 W 76’13.762
Geo2 – Part 2 of geocaching hike around Lake Knapp OU078F (opencaching.us)
N 38’57.022 W 76’13.790
Geo3 – Part 3 of geocaching hike around Lake Knapp OU0790
N 38’57.104 W 76’13.836
Geo4 – Part 4 of geocaching hike around Lake Knapp OU0791
N 38’57.140 W 76’14.026
Geo5 – Part 5 of geocaching hike around Lake Knapp OU0792
N 38’57.135 W 76’14.080
Geo6 – Part 6 of geocaching hike around Lake Knapp OU0792
N 38’56.980 W 76’14.002
Geodetic Markers
Site 1: N 38°56.969’ W 076°13.089’
Site 2: N 38°56.663’ W 076°13.779’
Site 3: N 38°56.810’ W 076°13.034’
Site 4: N 38°57.127’ W 076°14.036’
Site 5: N 38°57.122’ W 076°13.755’
Site 6: N 38°56.851’ W 076°14.124’
Paulas: N 38°56.884’ W 076°13.931’
Commemorative Marker: N 38°56.898’ W 076°13.755’
CBEC Partners in Geocaching
The Military Association of GeoCachers (MAGC) is an organization of US military (past and present), their families, friends and allies who mix technology with outdoor adventures to find geocaches around the world. Being military, their home is where the government sends them and as such, the local MAGC chapter (The Beltway Bandits) partnered with CBEC as a way to give back to the community. Each spring the MAGC has a Cache In Trash Out (CITO) event at the center as a way of promoting bay restoration through geocaching. The MAGC has established and maintains numerous cache sites at CBEC, both traditional and Earth caches. For more information on MAGC go to www.militarycache.org
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) branch that develops and maintains the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) is called the National Geodetic Survey (NGS). The purpose of this system is to define with the highest possible accuracy, latitude, longitude, height, scale, gravity and national shorelines throughout the United States. This in turn provides the foundation of accuracy to reliable transportation, communication and defense systems, boundary and property surveys, land record systems, mapping and charting, public utilities, coastal zone management, natural resource conservation and scientific and engineering applications. NGS also does research to improve collection, distribution and use of spatial data. The precise nature of this system has lead to the development and refinement of technologies available to the public, including Global Positioning System (GPS) surveying techniques. Find out more at www.ngs.noaa.gov including access to its data base www.ngs.noaa.gov