CachingCentral

An interim policy has banned the popular activity geocaching from national parks, but a final Parks Canada policy to be released by the end of September may encourage it.

The sport, played all over the world, has people hiding items and others tracking them down with global positioning systems (GPS). All of the items, hidden and found, are posted on geocaching.com website for others to seek out.

Parks Canada temporarily prohibited the growing activity as concerns were raised that trails were being trampled and there were increased impacts on wildlife.

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