FORT DRUM, N.Y. (April 6, 2016) -- Give Capt. Jordan Laughlin a map and a compass, and he can probably get you from Point A to Point B faster than anybody else on post. That is, if you can keep up ...

Local naturalist Mary Ann Schlegel can't coax her 12-year-old daughter, Hyla, into taking a hike with her. But when mom suggests they do an orienteering course, the girl scrambles for her sneakers. "I ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A new orienteering course at Locust Lake State Park in Barnesville takes visitors on a walk around ...

Orienteering is a running-related endurance sport comprised of physical and cognitive components. Orienteering athletes compete on a timed run through unknown cross-country terrain, checking in at ...

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 ...

As staff at Harris Lake County Park in southwestern Wake County looked for ways to keep visitors engaged during the pandemic last year, they dusted off an orienteering trail that an Eagle Scout ...

Sara Bednarcik consults her map shortly after reaching one of the checkpoints during the Grizzly Orienteering event at Lone Pine State Park Sunday. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake) Asher, Anna and ...

Tramping uphill through ankle-high grass under a searing late September sun, one wonders if taking that narrow path off the main road at Nissequogue State Park in Kings Park was such a good idea, ...

Sometimes finding your way can be a way of finding fun. Such were the findings of dozens of Missoulians last week in the hillsides above Pattee Creek who turned out for Grizzly Orienteering’s third ...