About Orienteering







Here you'll discover just what Orienteering is!







What Is It?

Orienteering is a sport wherein participants must navigate from one point to another using a map.

Orienteering has been likened to a scavenger hunt in the woods, but it's much more than that! Orienteering provides:

  • Mental Challenges
  • Fun
  • Lifetime skills
  • Physical Activity
  • Excitement

The event: In orienteering, participants receive a map of an area which shows a series of sites to visit. Participants develop strategies to navigate from one site to another.

The challenge: Find the most efficient route to all of the locations and prove you were there.

Proof of arrival: In a regular orienteering meet, participants use a special pin-punch located at each station to punch a control card.

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UniQue Events

Events can be designed where the participants prove their arrival by doing a special activity, solving a problem, answering a question or retrieving an object. Events can be designed for all ages from preschool through senior citizens. The possibilities are only limited by one's imagination.

The benefits of Orienteering are many:

  • Builds self confidence
  • Enhances team building
  • Improves map reading
  • Teaches a lifetime sport
  • Provides mental challenges
  • Provide physical challenges

Recreational and competitive events may be done on/in:

  • Foot
  • Skis
  • Bikes
  • Canoes
  • Wheelchairs
  • Horses
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