The Northeast Ohio Orienteering Club recently announced it is inviting outdoor enthusiasts to experience orienteering at the 2026 Masters Nationals and Corn Maze Challenge, set for Sept 25-27 with ...

A 21st-century version of orienteering, geocachers rely on a GPS device, such as a smartphone, to discover waterproof containers known as caches. These are craftily hidden by other geocachers around ...

Picture this: you’re with friends in an unfamiliar forest using only a map and a compass to guide you to an upcoming checkpoint. There are no cell phones or GPS gadgets to help, just good old ...

Orienteering is the outdoor sport of navigating a designed course through the forest using only a map and compass and the Northeastern Ohio Orienteering Club will be offering “Orienteering 101” Feb. 8 ...

Take the Kids: Grab your compass and head to Harris Lake's orienteering course As staff at Harris Lake County Park in southwestern Wake County looked for ways to keep visitors engaged during the ...

“OK, start!” calls the man with the clipboard, nodding toward a portable clock. That’s my cue. Compass in hand, I dash out of the starting gate and up a grassy slope to the west of Lake Balboa, on a ...

You will get lost. That is part of orienteering, a race where you have to read the wavy contour lines of a map and pick your way along natural terrain until you find a hallowed "control point," then ...

The last time many of us took a compass and a map into the middle of nowhere and plotted a route back to camp was when we were in Scouts or Guides. Geoff Hollins introduces the sport of Orienteering - ...

The new maps and courses will be available to download for all users. An orienteering group on the Isle of Man has been awarded funding to expand the opportunities to take part in the activity by ...