CHATSWORTH, Ga. — Lyle Petry proudly displays his booty at Fort Mountain State Park.
The Ellijay native holds up a basketball-sized wad of key chains he and his wife, Ann, collected at some of the 1,450 geocaches they’ve found around the country.
“It takes you places you never see,” said Mr. Petry, a remodeler and home builder.
Now, thanks to a new program launched by the state, geocaching will be taking people like the Petrys into Georgia state parks.
Last week marked the opening of the Georgia State Parks Geo-Challenge, in which volunteers hid caches of small items at 42 state parks and logged the GPS coordinates into a website for other cachers to find.