The Ballarat GeoTour has now closed.

What is a GeoTour? Combine geocaching and travel to uplevel your vacations. GeoTours highlight the best of the best from their destination – in this case Ballarat! Discover the possibilities, plan with interactive maps, and use the official Geocaching® app while on location. Find all the caches in a GeoTour in order to receive a unique digital souvenir. Pack your bags, and take off on a cache-pedition.

Why Ballarat? Ballarat is steeped in incredible history with some amazing natural locations. We want to encourage you to get to know every part of this unique city and a GeoTour is a perfect way to show you. This GeoTour took you to just some of the highlights of beautiful Ballarat but as you will see from the Geocaching map, there are LOTS of other caches to entice you to explore further. Also remember to download the Adventure Labs app as Ballarat has some fantastic golden history for you to learn about…

Ballarat GeoTour was launched on February 20th 2021 with an event: Ballarat GeoTour – LAUNCH Event. The caches were released shortly after and you can see the Official Ballarat GeoTour page HERE! This website allows you to download a GPX file of the GeoTour. Ongoing events were scheduled regularly. The GeoTour officially closed on 4 March 2024 after providing 3 years of adventures.

Geocaching Victoria are also selling geocoins related to the Ballarat GeoTour. You can purchase a Standard Coin, a 10 Finds Coin and a Completed GeoTour Coin from the Geocaching Victoria Store.

There are some very special limited edition coins too, that can only be won. These were awarded to random event attendees, a selection of those who completed the GeoTour, and some of those who supported the tour by buying GeoTour coins.

This GeoTour was made possible after receiving a grant from VicHealth as part of their Reimagining Health grants in 2020.