Design A Tag

Designing your own tag is fun and easy! Feeling creative and adventurous and want tips and templates? Need "professional help" from one of our Design Partners? You can get all that and more on our design page. Learn tips and tricks and find easy links to our helpful, affordable design pros.

What Are Pathtags?

Found a shiny Pathtag and wondering what to do with it? The short answer: Log it here (click the icon in the top) and you are free to keep it for your collection! Now that you found one, we know you can't suppress your curiosity! Click the read more link below to learn about the wonderful world of Pathtags!

The Community

Pathtags are more than a pretty face, as a customer you get access to our Community features too. Since 2006 our community has enhanced the value of Pathtags by allowing you to connect with friends, collect, trade, and track your Pathtags.

147,385 taggers from 79 countries have made 35,475 tag designs, completed 770,558 trades, and collected 2,567,307 tags using our online tools. Get in on all the fun! Buy a starter kit today!

Pacific Lamprey Challenge

When the US Fish and Wildlife Department wanted to create a challenge cache series to educate the public about the Pacific Lamprey, they wanted to give participants something to remember the experience by. They were looking for a gift that would be meaningful to Geocachers, but which is available on a budget. They selected Pathtags!

The only way to get their beautiful tag is by completeing the cache series, located just Southwest of Olympia, Washington.

Here are all six mystery cache sites:

The overall goals of this program are:

Educate the public about the Pacific Lamprey
Educate the public about the Chehalis River Basin and the partners working to conserve/restore it.
Connect People With Nature via geocaching

More information is availble at this website

Walton Robotics FIRST Team 2974 Pathtag

FIRST is a nonprofit organization founded by famed inventor Dean Kamen to promote Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) careers among young people. The vehicle for making this happen is a program of competitive robotics tournaments for children as young as Kindergarten through high school.

In 2013, Walton Robotics Team 2974 decided to do something special to leave a lasting impression on the people they "crossed paths with" at their competition. They created a Pathtag to give to other attendees!

Lisa Malice, one of the team's mentors, said "The pathtags were a big hit with the students because it was a unique give-away and because of the creative approach to spreading our message. Geocachers I met loved it, but the muggle families I talked with were really intrigued! We are starting to see log ins pop up on our tag map, including the ones I sent to Australia and Oregon to collectors who agreed to place them in geocaches."

For more information, please visit the team website, www.waltonrobotics.org

Mega Event Tag Order Guidance

Event	Date	Approve By
The Alexandra Event 2017	11/18/17	09/23/17 3 days left!
SWA*Gs Yuma Mega 15	02/11/18	12/17/17 88 days left!
16th Annual TXGA Texas Challenge & Festival	03/10/18	01/13/18 115 days left!
Hoorns Cache Event 2018	03/17/18	01/20/18 122 days left!
BRUGSE BEER VIII	04/07/18	02/10/18 143 days left!
MOGA 2018	04/14/18	02/17/18 150 days left!
Stashes n Stones	05/12/18	03/17/18 178 days left!
ASP Geobash 2018	05/19/18	03/24/18 185 days left!
Vikingevent 2018	05/19/18	03/24/18 185 days left!
Auf einen Sprung ins Vogtland ...	05/26/18	03/31/18 192 days left!
GeoWoodstock 2018	05/26/18	03/31/18 192 days left!
Cachen im ? Herzen der Stadteregion 2	06/23/18	04/28/18 220 days left!
Project Marchenhaft in Kassel	08/04/18	06/09/18 262 days left!

Dates are estimates for guidance only, they do not constitute a guarantee of delivery. Production times vary. These dates are based on 8 weeks of production & delivery time.

Customer Stories

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"When I found my first pathtag I moved it to another geocache not knowing what I had found. After learning more about them, I found another a few months later and I kept it. Then another few months went by and I had the priviledge of meeting Jellyfish and trippy1976 at an event, within minutes I was hooked! Ed and Mike not only were able to answer my questions, they gave me a few tags to help fuel the desire to create, gift and trade my own. I've since created 2 tags with 2 more planned for the near future, with more to follow. Another pathtag addict is born, thanks for helping with the addiction! ~Lion "

LionsLair

"Wow! We could not believe how good our 1st Pathtag came out! We are fully addicted now & got to trade them at GeoWoodstock VIII in Seattle! We went thru 200 already and have placed a reorder! We plan on order more different tags soon!"

sparrows_gold

"I brought up my Japanese Manhole Series on the forums just to see if there was an interest. WHOA!! I wasn't ready for all the Kudos and WANTS I received. I've got the first two in for production and 3 more ready to go! Getting initial feedback from my peers was an inspiration and motivator to get my series in the works! As Fakk2 put it, "A manhole cover is nothing but a pathtag on steroids!" THANK YOU one and all!"

DragonFly Dreams

"Tags arrived yesterday and they far exceed my expectations. Absolutely beautiful job. I designed these as a gift for my daughter and son-in-law and they were thrilled. Thanks, Pathtags."

"I had this tag made to give away to friends whilst overseas. It was a huge hit. (Most of them use it as a tag to unlock shopping trolleys.) Thanks for another great job!"

crane2

"I received my tags in great time and condition considering they are heading around the world to me. Delighted with my first tag. I will defintely be back for more!!"

pippamer

"Kia Ora. Really happy with my first tag. Even though I am not going to order my second tag just yet - I have already started thinking of what it will be. Even my teenage sons were impressed!! Also extremely appreciative of the people who frequent the forums for their helpful advice. Arohanui."

tinkerbell24

"ROCKY GLEN GROMMETS received their first of two tags in the mail today and they are wicked! Midnightgothicangel has done an amazing job - so good in fact that we've just ordered another 4 designs she's created for us. The Groms are going to be SO excited when they get home from school. Bob Grom is a member of our family at RGG (we picked him up out of a cache on the Eyre Peninsula (Australia))"

Rocky Glen Grommets

"I am just amazed at the response to my first tag. It is AMAZING to me that all the folks that I have traded with here have traded honestly and promptly. What a great group of people to trade tags with. I am not hooked on this Pathtag thing and am looking forward to making a second tag. Kudos to the Pathtag Community!!"

suzyjazz

"Got my first pathtag delivery today and they're just stunning. Going to be hard to give them away! :)"