Travel Bugs

Travel Bug - Trackable

A Trackable is a sort of physical geocaching "game piece." You will often find them in geocaches or see them at geocaching gatherings. Each Trackable is etched with a unique code that can be used to log its movements on Geocaching.com as it travels in the real world. Some of these items have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles thanks to geocachers who move them from cache to cache!

There are three main types of Trackables: Travel Bugs®, Geocoins and other Trackables.

A Travel Bug is a trackable tag attached to an item that geocachers call a "hitchhiker." Each Travel Bug has a goal set by its owner. Goals are typically travel-related, such as to visit every country in Europe or travel from coast to coast. Travel Bugs move from cache to cache with the help of geocachers like you.

Each Groundspeak Travel Bug* has its own unique tracking tag and own page on geocaching.com where you can track its progress as it passes on from person to person or cache to cache.

Each Travel Bug comes as a pair; one bug gets attached to an item (or on its own) and the other is a copy that you can hold on to.

*Please note that the word "Travel Bug" and the Travel Bug design logo are registered Trademarks of Groundspeak Inc.