Requirement
7. Find a real cache, with permission, and a free account
Required Often forgotten
Needs your parent or guardian's permission and help to set up a free account on geocaching.com. Look up three caches near you, share what is posted about them, then pick one and go and find it.
Notes and warnings
Warning. This requirement needs a parent or guardian: their permission, and their help setting up a free account on a commercial website. Have that conversation at the start of the badge rather than on the evening you hoped to finish it, and note that requirements 8(b) and 8(c) need the same permission again.
Where this step comes from
- Geocaching Merit Badge Requirements (Merit Badge Hub, last modified 2025-09-19), Requirement 7 · Requires a parent or guardian's permission, and its note states that a free user account on the site is needed and that permission and help should be asked for before setting one up.