Orienteering in Hainault Forest Country Park

Orienteering involves using a map to find your own way across the countryside from one check point to another. Its a great way to explore the outdoors. You can try orienteering in

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Hainault Forest Country Park where there is a permanent course set-up. On a permanent course fixed wooden posts mark the checkpoints to be found. The maps are large scale, printed in colour and specially drawn for orienteering with the checkpoints already marked.

Once you have picked up a map then off you go in your own time. There are 26 control points in Hainault, some are easy to find on paths, others are more difficult and involve going off paths into the forest. But you don’t have to find them all at once. There are suggested courses depending upon how far you want to go and the degree of difficulty you prefer.

The Hainault Forest Country Park orienteering maps are available from the visitor centre or countryside office during normal opening hours and cost £1.

The Hainault course has been set-up by the local “Chigwell & Epping Forest Orienteering Club”. There are also permanent orienteering courses in other local forests.

For more information about orienteering in the area see the club website

www.chig.org.uk

or contact Ray Weekes 020 8530 3011.