Texas County Challenge

Texas has 254 counties spread across more than 268,000 square miles. Find a geocache in every one of them, and you earn the right to hunt the final container. It is the oldest Texas county challenge, and still the hardest.

Cache

GCRX6F

Placed

January 2006

Difficulty / Terrain

5 / 5

Owner

TexasCountyChallenge

Finishers

Nearly 400

How it works

1. Find a cache in all 254 counties. Any cache type counts except locationless, including events and CITOs. Finds from before the challenge was created count too, as long as you physically found and logged them on Geocaching.com.
2. Check your progress. Project-GC's challenge checker is the official checker for this cache and shows which counties you still need.
3. Submit your list for verification. Put your 254 qualifying finds in a shared or public bookmark list and send it to the verifier named on the cache listing. Once it checks out, you get the final location.
4. Find the final and sign the log. The posted coordinates are a random spot in Texas, not the cache. You can only log the find after signing the physical logbook.

Before you start

County lines are decided by an objective tool, not by where you think you were, so caches near a county or state line are a gamble. Pick ones well inside the county when you can. Only cachers who have completed the challenge can log the find, even if friends come along for the final.

Photos at each cache are not required but are welcome. Post them to the individual cache logs, and your favorites to the challenge listing.

The first five

txoilgas finished first in April 2007, a little over a year after the challenge was placed. Nearly 400 cachers have followed. The cache listing keeps the full list.

Finished?

Finishers can order a commemorative coin and t-shirt. The cache listing has who to contact for each. Then take on the Texas 2-Step County Challenge, which asks for two caches in every county.