Mark your calendar for March 9, the 7th annual Geo Cache Desert Bash at Cattail Cove SP

Cattail Cove SP will host the 7th Annual Geocache Desert Bash treasure hunt with a cactus walk, presentations, and food.

For those not familiar with Geocaching, it is related to orienteering where people find their way using a compass, except that Geocaching takes advantage of personal, handheld Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to seek out a specific location.

After the Geocache event treasure hunters and visitors are invited for a free raffle and cake starting at noon. A hot dog vendor will also be on site for lunch. Call the park at 928 855-1223 for more information.

This event won an AZTEC (Arizona Talent in Event Concepts) award for its official Arizona Centenntial Event Geo-Cache Bash on March 12 last year at the park south of Lake Havasu City. The AZTEC awards strive to recognize outstanding examples of festival and event production and promotion in the State of Arizona. The park was honored for "Best AZ Centennial Extra Element" which recognized the park for producing an added element to an existing annual event.

The annual geo-caching treasure hunt event features teams broken up into easy, moderate, and difficult cache groups and based on their specific missions set out to find treasures in the park using clues and their GPS systems.

Following the Geo-caching, teams returned to the campgrounds and were entered into raffles for a brand new Garmin GPS system as well as other prizes such as cooking spices, key chains, and more.

For more information visit the Cattail Cove State Park website.