If you’ve been around Texas geocaching for a while, you are surely familiar with the Texas County Challenge. Finishers of this illustrious challenge have found a cache in every one of the 254 Texas counties.
But wait! There’s more!

The Texas 2-Step Country Challenge (GC9TREF) has gone live! 

In the Spring of 2022, an idea was hatched at a TXGA board meeting of adding a second harder State County Challenge. An investigation into the caches across the state revealed that there were 60 counties that needed an “Other” cache type if this challenge idea were to become a reality. After lots of discussion the Beta team was formed with several members of the board and a couple of very willing Texas cachers to bring this vision to life. Over the last several years, the Beta Team has driven all over Texas adding caches in the far reaches of the state and in the Summer of 2024 the reviewer agreed the criteria had been met and approved the cache for publication. 

On August 17^th TXGA hosted an event at the geographic center of Texas and the Texas Two Step went live and we celebrated the first 14 finishers with a special finisher coin and pictures.  There are 36 coins left – who is going to claim one?  We will recognize the remaining Finishers at Texas Challenge in Floresville on March 15^th

Wondering where to begin? Here is a progress checker that will show you where you can seek the caches in which counties as you work on this challenge. It’s very helpful and your adventures will be amazing!!