The Caledonian Cachefest will take place over the three days of

the May Bank Holiday (3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th May 2024)

in Moffat, Dumfries & Galloway.

There will be at least one event on each day:

Calendar of Events

All events are dog friendly!

Friday 3rd May

Welcome to Moffat (6pm to 9pm)

Join us for a traditional meet and greet event in a pub. All welcome, and if you want to stay later, there will be live music from 9pm.

Saturday 4th May

The Caledoninan Cachefest 2024 (11am to 4pm)

The main event! There will be plenty to see and do throughout the event, including craft stalls, a fully qualified and experienced masseur to take away those aches and pains from finding all the new geocaches, refreshments provided by Spike Aware UK, a how to geocache table, the GAGB, the Severn UK Mega and of course our own merchandise stall.

Callie Presents CacheMaster (8pm to 10pm)

Our evening entertainment is a geocaching version of the popular quiz TaskMaster. Come and join in or just watch. Bar available.

Sunday 5th May

Callie Goes To Leadhills (10am to 12pm)

Keeping with the original theme of a historical and educational event for the Sunday morning, we are taking you a few miles north to the highest villages in Scotland and the historic Leadhills Miners Library will be opening especially for attendees. This extremely important historical building is Britain's oldest subscription library and more importantly the World's first library for the working people. Entry into the library is free and you will also be able to explore the villages and find some of the many geocaches placed close by.

Evening Quiz Night (8pm to 10pm) Sponsored by Nidhoggr Mead Co

In the same venue as our Saturday night event, we aske you to kindly join us for a fun general knowledge quiz (with a geocaching round obviously). There will be prizes of wonderful meads from our sponsors Nidhoggr for the winners. Teams of upto 6 players and don't worry if you don't have 6, we can help you form a team (and hopefully new friends).

Monday 6th May  (10am to 12.30pm)

Monday Morning Scavenger Hunt Set in a part of the forest that people normally do not visit, we have been granted special permission to hold this event in Brattleburn. Please allow plenty of time to get to this event, access is along forest tracks and it takes at least 20 minutes to drive from the public road.