With local parks seeing high usage in recent months — thanks, surely, to COVID-19 shutting down most other forms of entertainment and leisure — Fairmount Park Conservancy is planning virtual scavenger hunts to engage visitors.

From July 27 to Sept. 7, park visitors can download the GooseChase app to their smartphones for free and complete missions at their leisure. New missions will be added each week and the most successful scavenger hunters will receive prizes like gift cards to minority-owned businesses and Fairmount Park Conservancy merchandise.

Historic Houses Program Coordinator John Sigmund told Technical.ly that this is Fairmount Park Conservancy’s fourth year of organizing the Fairmount Park Scavenger Hunt and its first time using GooseChase.

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