What is orienteering

Orienteering is a competitive international sport that combines running with navigation. It is a timed race in which individual participants use a specially created, highly detailed, map to select routes and navigate through diverse terrain and visit control points in sequence. There are twenty-one Irish Orienteering clubs with approximately 1,100 members ranging in age from three to ninety-three. The majority of Orienteering events involve running in forest and open mountain areas, but occasionally we organise Park Orienteering, Mountain Bike Orienteering (MTBO) and Night Orienteering (Night-O) events. For a list of areas where we run events, go to our Mapped areas page You can also try orienteering at one of the Permanent Orienteering Courses in forests around the country.  3ROC is a full member of the Irish Orienteering Association