President's Welcome     2/22/2025 updated

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  On behalf of the officers of the Northern New Jersey Cachers (NNJC), a non-profit geocaching organization, come join the fun!

Let’s get this BLOCK PARTY started!
After celebrating our last and 10th mega event in June 2024, then lots of arm twisting and requests on hosting the Block Party! How could I say no!
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2025 is the 25th anniversary of Geocaching, as well as the 90th anniversary of Atlantic City NJ's Monopoly Game and NNJC's 20th anniversary!

All attending will receive the Block Party icon!

Mark your calendars and come join the 6/21/ 2025 Block Party Event !
John Neale SAR, Old Navy


History of 10 years of the Metro Mega Events 

​Its hard to believe that 2024 was our 10th Metro Gathering Mega Event,
it should be our 11th, but lets not talk about life in 2020.  

Our first year was in 2014 in Union County which we pulled off producing this new event in less the 5 months after HQ's approval. We spent the next 5 years, 2015 - 2019  at a larger venue at NJ State Waterloo Village which we produced some great themes, Historic Canal, Haunted Village,
Headless Horseman, Witches of Salem, and Pirates of  Port Royal.

In 2021 we moved the Mega event to a new location with our Middlesex County Partners at
historic East Jersey Old Town. We embraced NJ's American Revolution with mega themes in 2021 with NJ's American Revolution War history and in 2022 with Washington's Spies.
In 2023 we profiled NJ with theme with "Postcards from New Jersey" 
In 2024 the Mega event celebrated the "Tree of Life” with 10 years of interconnections of strength,
growth and friendship that has been made over the past ten years, and enjoyed by the
entire the geocaching community.

​Metro Gathering Mega Promotions
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In 2017 We created the very popular search for the Golden Ticket promotion program, which started prior to each Mega event to get the mega event excitement building!  In 2021 we added a new game called "Capture The Flag", to find an American flag pathtag and pre order a limited coin. Both promotions are rewarded with a cool limited geocoin. In 2022 we continued the search for "Golden Spy Notes" and "Capture the Spy". ​In 2023 it was all about capturing the Jersey Devil and in 2024 hunt for Green Man!
in 2025 you will be searching for a Monoply Card!

Mark your calendars and come join the 2025 Block Party Event !
​ Please support the event! 
John Neale SAR, Old Navy
 Club INFORMATION  BE FOUND ON NNJC'S WEBSITE  LINK 
INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND ON NNJC'S FACEBOOK  LINK ​
Come join The 
Metro Gathering's
​ BLOCK PARTY
​Event!
​06/21/2025  ​link
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BLOCK PARTY MONOPOLY THEME
PictureAll attendees who attend the event will receive this ​ Block Party icon in your profile!
AN ENCORE PERFORMANCE
​Welcome to the 2025 Metro Gathering
BLOCK PARTY
to celebrate 25 years of Geocaching!
​After our 10th and final Metro area Mega​
event we decided to officially end with a Block Party!

​ Date: Saturday, June 21, 2025Time: 10:00am to 4:00pm! 
East Jersey Old Town, 1050 River Rd, Piscataway, NJ 08854-5645

IN 2025 WE CELEBRATE
25 YEARS OF GEOCACHING,
20 YEARS OF NNJC,
& 90 YEARS OF NEW JERSEY'S OWN 
MONOPOLY BOARD GAME

Block Party Games! 

"ICONIC NEW JERSEY" 
The Monopoly board game took its inspiration from the real streets in
​Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The Monopoly board game is about to celebrate 90 years in 2025. The version based on real-life streets from Atlantic City came out on March 19, 1935. Baltic Avenue, Mediterranean Avenue, Virginia Avenue, St. James Place, all of these locations, and the rest are or were real places when Monopoly’s Atlantic City version came out. You can still make your way back to many of these iconic locations next time you find yourself in Atlantic City, NJ

Pre Mega Community Celebration!
at The Low House Friday Night
6/20/2025 
Everyone is welcome to come join The Pre~Metro Gathering Mega Meet and Greet located at this scenic historic property in Middlesex County NJ. Come and get into the American Patriot spirit, as the NJ's American Revolution Mega as the party starts the night before the big day.
PLEASE BRING POT LUCK FOOD AND DRINKS TO SHARE ~ BRING A CHAIR/TABLE TOO.
This event is outside on the lawn of this historic location, we will have some pop ups but limited on seating. We will keep the list of donated food for the picnic. Please post how many will attend and what you can bring to the picnic. Thank you!
Spend time to geo-chat, trackable exchanging and a chance to meet geocachers new to the area who have traveled to the event. Whether you are in the area seeking the numerous caches, interested in meeting new faces and welcoming them to NJ, hungry , or just need a place to unwind and relax - this is your opportunity.
Date/ Time: June 20TH, 2025 ~ 5:00PM to 8:00PM 
The cache page link coming soon

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THE LOW HOUSE

2024 Metro Gathering Mega Event Video ​

2023 Metro Gathering Mega Event Video 

2021 Metro Gathering Mega Event Video 

Please Support us... 
to continue to offer this free Golden Ticket Contest! 
If you enjoy the search for the Golden Ticket Contest, we ask you to please help us continue to offer these free Golden Ticket geocoins by supporting the Metro Gathering Mega Event. Please PRE-ORDER and purchase an event package, tee shirt, geocoin or pathtags.
Registration pre-ordering will open soon as there is no guarantee items will be available at the event!

A call for volunteers! 

Interested in becoming more involved with the MEGA event, we need you!
​It takes a village and and community team to build a quality Mega Event! Please volunteer during the Mega event you can choose as much or as little time you can offer!
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