Description
Navigate using a self-printed paper map (or your phone) to features instead of orienteering flags, exploring one of Asheville’s oldest residential neighborhoods, Kenilworth. Full of incredible architecture, steep winding hills and breathtaking views, this self guided tour challenges the legs and fascinates the mind.
Start and finish at Kenilworth Park, located in Asheville, NC at 79 Wyoming Drive. Click here for Google Maps driving directions.
MapRun is a smartphone orienteering app. You navigate through the real world with a paper map and compass. MapRun tracks your progress with GPS and keeps score of your session, beeping to indicate you’ve reached a feature. You can learn about MapRun here – https://maprunners.weebly.com/
- A fun and exciting challenge for all experience levels (including zero experience.)
- Two courses are included:
- Scatter – visit up to 20 control locations in any order
- Score-O – strategize and try to reach as many points as possible in 65 minutes
- Walk, run, bike, stroll, crawl, whatever. This goes at your pace, on your schedule.
- Competitive? Race against your friends and compare routes and times on the online MapRun Leaderboard.
- Stats nerd? Easy email GPX file export and Strava integration.
- Choose from Self-print PDFs or full color, waterproof paper copies by mail. Your purchase comes with an Instructions Sheet bearing PIN codes to unlock these courses in the MapRun app.
- How many maps do I need?
- One person traveling solo – buy one map
- A group, traveling together – buy one map
- Three people, traveling solo, competing against one another – buy three maps
THE NEIGHBORHOOD
- Kenilworth is a historic residential neighborhood in Asheville perched atop a steep hill just east of Mission Hospital and north of Biltmore Village.
- Kenilworth Park features a grassy field, a great kids’ playground, basketball, tennis courts, and (seasonal) restrooms.
A view from the course. - The course is nicknamed, “Between Two Cemeteries,” as it’s situated between two historic burial grounds – the South Asheville Cemetery, Western North Carolina’s oldest slave cemetery and part of the NC Civil War Trails, and the Newton Academy Cemetery of the same era.
THE MAP
- Mostly black and white with simplified street-O symbol set. Purists take heed – this map is custom and makes no effort to adhere to any ISOM standard.
- Scale is 1:10,000 with 20-foot contour interval.
- This activity takes place on public streets and you should never cut through private property. Possession of this map does not imply right of access. Use this map at your own risk, use your head, and be safe out there.
- Find a problem with the map? Please let us know so we can update it!
THE APP
- MapRun runs on Android and iPhone, and is FREE
- You can download and install MapRun here.
- When you arrive to within 15 meters of a control point, the app beeps and vibrates to indicate you’ve “gotten” the control.
- Here is an overview video of MapRun in action.
