Not sure where you are, but I believe geocaching started in CA. When people make them too accessible, they get stolen or vandalized (one near my house was filled with urine; it was not 100 feet from a major road, and probably drew too much attention).
The vast majority of ‘cachers here are Obama voter types.
It’s like they finally gave up Dungeons And Dragons, left their mother’s basement and started wandering around the woods, instead.
The morons even have nerdy LOTR/etc nicknames.
Apparently they don’t subscribe to the “clean up the trash” claims.
The leave trails of Red Bull cans and candy wrappers.