Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park will be hosting its 3rd Annual Geocaching Weekend Sept. 28-30.

Geocaching is an adventure game that uses technology and global positioning system units (GPS units) to locate the cache or treasure. These units use satellites to determine your position on Earth and can be used to pinpoint locations.

Games will include a night cache, find the most micro caches contest, first-to-find cache, and traditional caches. We guarantee at least 30 caches to find.

The fee is $10 per geocacher, $5 if you register by Sept. 24. Event participants are eligible for a 10 percent discount on lodging. On site registration will begin at 2 p.m. CT Sept. 28. Participants will receive their book of coordiantes for all the geocaches once they have completed on-site registration.

The weekend will begin with a welcome on Friday evening at 7:30 p.m., after which participants will take turns searching for the night cache. There will also be a DVD for beginning geocachers to view on Friday evening. Saturday geocachers will search for the caches on their own. Awards for most micros found, and first to find cache will be given out at the meet and greet on Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m.

To register contact Rebecca Clark at 1-800-325-1711 or rebeccae.clark@ky.gov

Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park has a lodge, cottages, campground, Clifty Creek Restaurant, golf, mini-golf, gift shop, fishing, boating and hiking trails. The resort is 20 miles northwest of Hopkinsville, on KY 109 N. From the Western Kentucky Parkway, exit at Dawson Springs and take KY 109 south.

The Kentucky State Park System is composed of 53 state parks plus an interstate park shared with Virginia. The Department of Parks, an agency of the Commerce Cabinet, operates 17 resort parks with lodges — more than any other state. Each year, Kentucky parks draw 7 million visitors and contribute $317 million to the economy. For more information on Kentucky parks, visit our Web site at http://www.parks.ky.gov