Backwoods Orienteering Klub

Have Fun in the Woods Orienteering… with the best maps in the world

Orienteering Raleigh NC

Backwoods Orienteering Klub, founded November 15, 1978 sponsors events and teaches orienteering in the North Carolina piedmont, around Raleigh, NC.

We invite you to try orienteering with us. Everyone is welcome at all our events. We always offer beginning, intermediate, advanced and expert courses (routes through the woods) at every Regular event.

Author: David Waller

  • Coastal Orienteering Weekend, 11/12 March

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    Registration for this event has closed Expert orienteers (i.e., those who have successfully completed a brown, green, red, or blue course) are welcome to register for our annual coastal orienteering experience.  This year we will again be among the tall dunes and wild horses on Shackleford Banks.   Weather permitting, four events will be offered:  a…

  • Shackleford Island, March 2023

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    For the past few years, we have had a weekend of stunningly spectacular orienteering and camaraderie on the NC coast in early February.  This year we are planning this weekend to be later — March 11 & 12 — hopefully to capitalize on weather that is agreeable enough to camp overnight on Shackleford Island between…

  • Results, Eno River (08 Jan 2023)

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    Despite some very chilly weather and light rain, we enjoyed a great day of orienteering at Eno River, one of our region’s steeper and more rugged venues. In addition to most of our club regulars, we also welcomed a handful of very enthusiastic first-timers, and we hope to see them back again at future events.…

  • Open event at Eno River, January 08, 2023

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    Registration for this event is closed. Everyone is welcome to our event at Eno River State Park on Sunday, January 8. Check-in at the Fews Ford shelter, just west of the loop parking lot at the end of Cole Mill Road.  (GPS coordinates = 36.073616, -79.007005).   Please register here before 8:00 AM on Saturday,…

  • Results, Eno River (04 Dec 2022)

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    We enjoyed a really nice score course at Eno River. The weather was cool, with no precipitation; and the river level was relatively low. Some runners got to venture into some newly-acquired park land, including an old quarry in the far north. All in all, it was a very successful event. I designed this year’s…

  • December Score-O, Eno River advanced event

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    Registration for this event is now closed. On Sunday, December 04, BOK will host its 9th annual December Score-O.  This year, we are back at Eno River.  A “Score-O” involves a course with no predetermined route, in which competitors decide which controls they want to visit, and in which order.  This event will have 2-,…

  • Fox-chase Score-O, Carolina North, 18 September

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    On Sunday, 18 September at 10:00 AM, we will have a 90-minute “Fox Chase Score-O” at Carolina North Forest in Chapel Hill.  The event is open only to advanced orienteers (i.e. those who have completed an orange, brown, green, or red course).   Note that the staging location for this event — the Orange Co. Health…

  • Results, Umstead North (11 Sept 22)

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    Over fifty orienteers came to Umstead park on Sunday for our first open event of the 2022/2023 season. The weather conditions were rather unpleasant, with a dew point of 74, and occasional light rain. Because we were expecting even more participants, I designed a fairly large, sprawling event, including a rare “blue” course that covered…

  • Open event, Umstead North, 11 Sept

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    Registration for this event is closed. Everyone is welcome to the north side of Umstead State Park on Sunday, September 11 for our first event of the season.  Enter the park from Glenwood Ave./US 70; park here; and check-in at the large shelter, here  (GPS = 35.871668, -78.759166).  After reading the description of this event…

  • Anderson Park, 10 July 2022, Results

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    Summer events are often short sprint courses held before noon as a way to deal with potentially oppressive heat and humidity.  We couldn’t have predicted when we scheduled this event that we would enjoy temperatures in the upper sixties, and a (mostly) refreshing drizzle.  Despite our runners’ ability to go further, the short courses and…