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.

146,018 taggers from 79 countries have made 35,077 tag designs, completed 761,819 trades, and collected 2,538,565 tags using our online tools. Get in on all the fun! Buy a starter kit today!

At least here in the USA July is about summer, celebrating, fireworks, get togethers with friends and family, sparklers and - free glitter for everyone!

Glitter is available every day now, but from July 4 through the end of August you can pick any Glitter color you want (one per side if two sided) at no extra cost!

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

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Customer Stories

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"This tag turned out perfect! I graduated from Shawnee State, affectionately known as "Floodwall Tech". I'm really please with the tag!"

maggieszoo

"I had a tag made as a present for another geocaching friend of mine. I can't believe how perfect it turned out! She is going to love them. Thanks for adding something new and fun to the geocaching experience!"

"What a great surprise in the mail today. My third pathtag. You guys rock on the production side. It seems like I just ordered it last week. Thanks"

B-Hive

"Wow! My latest tags arrived today & I am really impressed with how they turned out... but then again, I have generally found that my tags exceed expectations. It's always great to come home & find a Pathtag parcel waiting for me! Thanks."

Tealby

"I just love my new tag! I was concerned about the amount of detail not showing up well, but it is beautiful! Thanks so much!"

maggieszoo

"This is our 2nd tag and we ordered maybe a month or two after our first only because we were still trying to decide what we wanted to do or it would have been sooner. We put some ideas together and sent them to Texas Dreamweaver and for the 2nd time he hit it out of the park! Took our ideas and then turned them into something even better than what we knew could be done. From there it was seamless we sent it in to pathtags got the blueprint which was exact the first time and a month later just as promised (arrived 2nd day in the two week window given to us; and that was even during the Thanksgiving Holiday!) they were in our mailbox! They were even better than we thought they would be, finished and in person! Instantly we had a lot of trade requests and have enjoyed every minute of it. We are working on our next tag now; hope to have it submitted in a week. Thanks to all of you that made this happen! cuckootown"

cuckootown

"I thought my first tags were wonderful, so I quickly ordered a second set. These tags came out so beautifully, and the detailed workmanship on them is incredible!! Thank you so much to the entire pathtag team, and you can believe I'll be back for more!"

Caching Kitty

"Darren had told me all about these on the geotalk australia podcast. I never actually got to see one for myself until the Oz Mega event in Wagga Wagga on the Easter weekend. I had some on order, but never got them in time to trade at the event and I got them today. The service was fast and excellent, even though I am an Impatient man. I love them... simple and plain. and with a vanity serial number that I am so proud of and that you will never get to see unless you trade with me. TFTT."

"I started geocaching only about 4 1/2 months ago, and went to my first event when I only had 2 finds under my belt. I met a lot of nice people there, one of whom had brought his collection of over 300 pathtags. Of course I was curious about these little pieces of art, and asked to take a look at his collection. Right then, I just knew that I had to have my own! Later the same evening, I was given a signature tag by the tag's owner, and that only confirmed my desire to get my own! I resisted the temptation to hastily design my pathtag, but within 2 months I had placed an order. The blueprint confirmation process was a bit problematic for me, but now that my tags are here, I am absolutely thrilled with them! I'm so proud of the way they turned out, and am enjoying face-to-face trading with geocaching friends, and a little bit of trading through the mail so far. I can tell already that I will have to come up another design or 2 (or 3, or 4...)!"

Ms.CallaLily

"Tags turned out way better than I expected. They are great! "

MultiKasher