Beginner-level Navigation Skills Course
Orienteering 101
Co-hosted with Richfield Heritage Preserve
Update: Use Oviatt Rd Entrance to RHP (see map details below)
Our event will *NOT* be conducted out of Waterfront shelter, which is next to the Lodge. It will now begin from the Kirby Mill. The mill is accessed from Oviatt Rd., which originates from State Rd. This is where participants will park.
DO NOT go to the Lodge entrance on Broadview Rd.
This will be entirely open air instruction, so dress for the conditions.
Overview
Want to improve your on and off-trail navigation ability? Looking for another way to immerse yourself in the natural world? Could you benefit from an adventure activity that maintains your fitness, both physical and mental? …An activity you can do for a lifetime.
If, Yes! You might want to try our sport/pastime of orienteering.
Quite simply, orienteering is the activity of map and compass navigation through natural or built landscapes. It’s you, a mapped course, the world around you, and a clock. You can be a competitive athlete, a weekend walker and nature enthusiast, a three-dimensional puzzle solver. Each are orienteers.
To learn more, join the navigational skills course (Orienteering for Beginners) at Richfield Heritage Preserve (Oviatt Rd Entrance), taught by members of the Northeastern Ohio Orienteering Club (NEOOC). In this two-hour session that will be both lecture and field work (snow, rain or shine). You will learn how to read a topographical map, take a compass bearing using a baseplate compass, learn some important orienteering lingo and techniques, and generally how to be successful as a beginning navigator and orienteer.
Equipment needed: shoes appropriate for trails and a baseplate compass
(compasses will be available for loan, if you don’t have one).
Details
- Saturday, August 16, 2025
- Place: Richfield Heritage Preserve, Richfield, Ohio (Oviatt Rd Entrance)
- Check-in beginning at 9:30 am
- Instruction beginning at 10:00 am with a 45 minute classroom session followed by a guided outdoor practice session – approximately 1 mile for 45 minutes, all on trails. Then a short beginners course to do on your own (~30 minutes).
- $10 per group (packet), Pay at event. Preregistration is preferred below, but walk-ups are welcome (subject to packet availability).
PLEASE REVIEW THE WAIVER OF LIABILITY AND ASSUMPTION OF RISK BEFORE PREREGISTERING. BY REGISTERING, YOU ARE AGREEING TO THE TERMS OF THIS WAIVER AND ARE ABSOLVING NEOOC AND ORIENTEERING USA , ET AL OF LIABILITY RESULTING FROM YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE ASSOCIATED ORIENTEERING ACTIVITY.
For any questions, email us at: registrar@neooc.com
Preregistration
Walk-ups are welcome, but are subject to packet availability
Volunteers
A big THANKS to:
- Event Director & Chief Instructor: Howard Montgomery
- Assisting: Kathy Christy, Sanae Rogers, Jay Smink, …
Location
Richfield Heritage Preserve (Oviatt Rd Entrance)
3805 Oviatt Rd, Richfield, OH 44286
4374 Broadview Rd; Richfield, OH 44286