President's Welcome 1/11/2024 updated
John Neale SAR, Old Navy
On behalf of the officers of the Northern New Jersey Cachers (NNJC), a non-profit geocaching organization, come join the fun event.
Its hard to believe that 2024 will be the 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 at a larger venue at Waterloo Village which we produced some great themes, Historic Canal, 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 launched the NJ American Revolution Geo Trail the fall of 2020, a journey of historic discovery
across NJ state as we continue to add more historic locations.
njpatriots.org
We continued to embrace NJ's American Revolution with mega themes. The August 7th 2021 NJ's American Revolution War history and the June 18, 2022 Washington's Spies mega event themes.
In 2023 we profiled NJ with theme with "Postcards from New Jersey".
In 2024 the Mega event will celebrates 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
.
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!
Mark your calendars and come join the 2024 Mega Event !
Please support the Mega event!
John Neale SAR, Old Navy
On behalf of the officers of the Northern New Jersey Cachers (NNJC), a non-profit geocaching organization, come join the fun event.
Its hard to believe that 2024 will be the 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 at a larger venue at Waterloo Village which we produced some great themes, Historic Canal, 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 launched the NJ American Revolution Geo Trail the fall of 2020, a journey of historic discovery
across NJ state as we continue to add more historic locations.
njpatriots.org
We continued to embrace NJ's American Revolution with mega themes. The August 7th 2021 NJ's American Revolution War history and the June 18, 2022 Washington's Spies mega event themes.
In 2023 we profiled NJ with theme with "Postcards from New Jersey".
In 2024 the Mega event will celebrates 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
.
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!
Mark your calendars and come join the 2024 Mega Event !
Please support the Mega event!
Why is this event called the "Metro Gathering Event"?
The entire region of New Jersey, parts on NY, PA, CT, and DE are considered a metropolitan area, the current event name "Metro Gathering" is branded for the Mega event with Geocaching HQ and we will continue to use the name for this regional event.
The Metro Gathering event is located within the "metropolitan area" and managed by volunteers throughout the entire metropolitan area which include event managers and volunteers from both Northern New Jersey Cachers (NNJC), Central Jersey Caching (CJC) CT, DE, NY and Pa clubs.
The Metro Gathering event is located within the "metropolitan area" and managed by volunteers throughout the entire metropolitan area which include event managers and volunteers from both Northern New Jersey Cachers (NNJC), Central Jersey Caching (CJC) CT, DE, NY and Pa clubs.
The Metropolitian Area "Fun Facts and figures"
New Jersey is an entirely metropolitan state (a distinction it shares only with much-smaller Rhode Island) in that every one of New Jersey’s 21 counties is part of one metro area or another.
- 12 northern and central New Jersey counties are part of the New York metro area, the nation’s largest — Bergen, Passaic, Sussex, Essex, Hudson, Union, Morris, Middlesex, Somerset, Hunterdon, Monmouth, and Ocean; together, these counties account for 73 percent of New Jersey’s population.
- 4 southern NJ counties — Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Salem — are part of the Philadelphia metro area, the #5 most populous metro area in the country; these counties make up another 15 percent of the state’s population
- Warren County is part of the #62 metro area, Allentown–Bethlehem–Easton, PA-NJ
- Mercer County constitutes the Trenton–Ewing metro area, #137 in population
- Atlantic County constitutes the Atlantic City–Hammonton metro area, #166
- Cumberland County constitutes the Vineland–Millville–Bridgeton metro area, #249
- Cape May County constitutes the Ocean City, NJ metro area, #349
- The New York metropolitan area includes the most populous city in the United States (New York City); counties comprising Long Island and the Mid- and Lower Hudson Valley in the state of New York; the five largest cities in New Jersey (Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Elizabeth, and Edison) and their vicinities; six of the seven largest cities in Connecticut (Bridgeport, New Haven, Stamford, Waterbury, Norwalk, andDanbury) and their vicinities; and five counties in Northeast Pennsylvania.
- As per the 2013 United States Census Bureau estimates, the New York metropolitan area remains by a significant margin the most populous in the United States, as defined by both the Metropolitan Statistical Area
Every NJ county is part of the entire NJ,NY,PA,CT,& DE metropolitan areas