President's Welcome 1/11/2024 updated 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". We will start the 2024 hunt for Green Man Golden Tickets promotion by March and then Capture the Green Man April. Mark your calendars and come join the 2024 Mega Event ! Please support the Mega event! John Neale SAR, Old Navy |
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Welcome to the 2024 Metro Gathering Mega Website
this year is our 10th annual Metro area Mega
and our last mega event!
Date: Saturday, June 15, 2024 Time: 10:00am to 4:00pm!
East Jersey Old Town, 1050 River Rd, Piscataway, NJ 08854-5645
All good things (mega's) must come to an end.
The 2024 Metro Mega event is scheduled for 6/15/24 at East Jersey Old Town. This will be our 10th and final Mega event.
We all enjoy the atmosphere that surrounds the fun of a Mega event.
Many friends, new theme caches, and lots of adventures labs!
Our first mega event was in 2014 in Union county, we received the mega status and had 4 months to plan the event. We did scramble!
We then moved to a larger venue at NJ State’s Waterloo Village which gave us more room to roam, it ran there for 5 years.
In 2021 we moved to the beautiful and historic Middlesex Counties East Jersey Old Town.
In developing the mega events we have taken pride to offer exciting theme experiences, creating caches and adventure labs around these themes for everyone to enjoy. The past mega event themes were Metro Gathering, Canal Town, Headless Horseman/Sleepy Hollow, Haunted Village, Witches of Salem, Pirates of Port Royale, American Revolution, Spies, and recently the Postcards of New Jersey.
We also created very cool theme geocoins and pathtags for each event. These theme mega events had some great decorations too!
In 2017 to promote the mega events we created a geo-adventure and excitement to lead up to the mega event. Find the "Golden Ticket", fun clues and free coins made this a popular and exciting program. In 2021 we then added the “capture” program with the flag, spy, and NJ devil pathtag promotions.
After discussions with the hard working NNJC team, which many have been working every mega event, its decided its time to scale back.
I can personally say planning these past mega events have been very rewarding seeing the themes come together with so many happy people.
It takes a year long process, creating new themes, logistics, meetings, HQ guidelines, developing 50+ Adventure Labs, designing the theme products, building the website and store, plus back office expenses. This one day event plus pre/post events also take a good team of great volunteers!
The 2024 Mega will be a celebration of 10 years of Metro Gathering, we’ll pull out the previous mega themes and have a fun final mega event!
Its hard to think this will be our final mega event, but NNJC will still host many other NJ events!
Thank you to the NNJC team, many volunteers and all the attendees who supported these mega events!
John Neale, Old Navy
The 2024 Metro Mega event is scheduled for 6/15/24 at East Jersey Old Town. This will be our 10th and final Mega event.
We all enjoy the atmosphere that surrounds the fun of a Mega event.
Many friends, new theme caches, and lots of adventures labs!
Our first mega event was in 2014 in Union county, we received the mega status and had 4 months to plan the event. We did scramble!
We then moved to a larger venue at NJ State’s Waterloo Village which gave us more room to roam, it ran there for 5 years.
In 2021 we moved to the beautiful and historic Middlesex Counties East Jersey Old Town.
In developing the mega events we have taken pride to offer exciting theme experiences, creating caches and adventure labs around these themes for everyone to enjoy. The past mega event themes were Metro Gathering, Canal Town, Headless Horseman/Sleepy Hollow, Haunted Village, Witches of Salem, Pirates of Port Royale, American Revolution, Spies, and recently the Postcards of New Jersey.
We also created very cool theme geocoins and pathtags for each event. These theme mega events had some great decorations too!
In 2017 to promote the mega events we created a geo-adventure and excitement to lead up to the mega event. Find the "Golden Ticket", fun clues and free coins made this a popular and exciting program. In 2021 we then added the “capture” program with the flag, spy, and NJ devil pathtag promotions.
After discussions with the hard working NNJC team, which many have been working every mega event, its decided its time to scale back.
I can personally say planning these past mega events have been very rewarding seeing the themes come together with so many happy people.
It takes a year long process, creating new themes, logistics, meetings, HQ guidelines, developing 50+ Adventure Labs, designing the theme products, building the website and store, plus back office expenses. This one day event plus pre/post events also take a good team of great volunteers!
The 2024 Mega will be a celebration of 10 years of Metro Gathering, we’ll pull out the previous mega themes and have a fun final mega event!
Its hard to think this will be our final mega event, but NNJC will still host many other NJ events!
Thank you to the NNJC team, many volunteers and all the attendees who supported these mega events!
John Neale, Old Navy
The 2024 Mega event celebrates the "Tree of Life”
This year the Mega event celebrates the "Tree of Life” with interconnections of strength, growth and friendship that has been made over the past nine years, and enjoyed by the entire the geocaching community.
The day of the event will feature Lab Caches with props from the past Mega themes of Halloween, Witches, Pirates, American Revolution, and others. Make sure you log your will attend:
Link
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCAC0MM
The day of the event will feature Lab Caches with props from the past Mega themes of Halloween, Witches, Pirates, American Revolution, and others. Make sure you log your will attend:
Link
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCAC0MM
The 2024"Golden Ticket Promotion"
The "Golden Ticket Promotion" has started!!!
Keeping with the "Tree of Life” theme we will feature the very cool "Green Man” of the forest.
The Green Man, and very occasionally the Green Woman, is a legendary being primarily interpreted as a symbol of rebirth, representing the cycle of new growth that occurs every spring.
Pre Mega Community Celebration!
at The Low House Friday Night
6/14/2024
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 14TH, 2024 ~ 5:00PM to 8:00PM
The cache page link coming soon
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!
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!
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!