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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They’re the type of people you want close by if you ever get lost in the woods. They participate in orienteering, the sport of navigating through the woods with map and compass. Those new to the sport ...

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 - ...

If you're looking to get out and about in a socially distanced way, you might want to check out Harris Lake County Park's orienteering course. Orienteering, for the uninitiated, is a sport that ...