Downloadable Orienteering Courses
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Fletcher PARK Orienteering – Bill Moore Community Park
Price range: $5.00 through $10.00 -
Black Mountain STREET Orienteering – Lookout Brewing MapRun
Price range: $5.00 through $10.00 -
Asheville STREET Orienteering – West Asheville MapRun
Price range: $5.00 through $10.00 -
Asheville STREET Orienteering – Kenilworth MapRun
Price range: $5.00 through $10.00 -
Black Mountain MapRun Orienteering Course
Price range: $5.00 through $10.00 -
Bent Creek Trails MapRun Orienteering Course
Price range: $5.00 through $10.00
Course Reviews
Inspired by MapRun Mondays
These courses are updated and reworked versions of maps and courses from our “MapRun Monday” twilight orienteering series from 2021 and 2022.
Each week we met in a different public park (or brewery – it’s Asheville) to choose between a variety of race formats. The idea was to bring orienteering out of the woods and into the neighborhoods we knew, and ones we didn’t know. These were attended by families with kids and strollers and dogs, elderly folks out for a walk in a new place, competitive runners racing against their friends (fiercely,) entire high school cross country teams, and even a self-styled “Clydesdale division” about whom you can draw your own conclusions.
At the end of every event, the scene was the same — sweaty, animated people gesturing wildly to one another, recounting where they went, what happened, and pointing at the rumpled maps that utterly consumed them for the last however many minutes or hours. And always, the question on the way out — “When and where is the next one?”