Nominees for NOVAGO’s 2025 Geocache Awards Thanks to all those who took the time to send in nominations. While not all nominations were able to make the final cut, we were impressed with every suggestion. The hardworking awards committee have compiled the caches on this list from the very best of 2025. We invite all geocachers to go out and find as many of these wonderful caches as possible. For a geocaching friendly list of the nominees: CLICK HERE. Voting will open for the NoVAGO 2025 Geocache Awards – soon. Winners will be announced at our NoVAGO’s 2026 Spring Picnic & Cache Awards Event on May 3rd at Hal and Berni Hanson Regional Park, Stone Ridge, Virginia. Without further ado, here are the nominees: Best Traditional Cache GCAYK2J – Tie this, Chicky – and keep scrolling by frumiousb GCB5X8N – The Ballston Belle by 0xDEADC0DE GCB7D08 – Pirate Battleship by VAPirate GCBAE03  – … Continue reading →

Each year NoVAGO honors some of the best caches that were placed in Northern Virginia. Nominations are an opportunity for you to recognize the efforts of your fellow NoVAGO cachers who have placed hides that you have enjoyed. This list is meant to help you think of some of the best geocaches you found last year. For the 2025 NoVAGO Awards, nominations will be solicited for the following categories, which were approved by the NoVAGO Board. Some changes have been introduced from some of the 2024 categories. Make sure that you refresh your understanding of the categories before submitting your nominations. Also, please note that none of these categories are required to be awarded each year. Cache type awards may be combined after the nomination period.   2025 NoVAGO Cache Award Category Descriptions Cache Type: Best Traditional Cache – The familiar green box on the map, which one made the … Continue reading →