Orienteering Event: Florida Agricultural Museum

Name: Orienteering Event: Florida Agricultural Museum
Start: 2024-05-11T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-05-11T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Florida Agricultural Museum

Schedule

Sat May 11 2024 at 09:00 am to 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Florida Agricultural Museum | Palm Coast, FL

Novice through Advanced navigation courses will be available.
Go out solo, or with friends or family, your Adventure Race team, classmates…ALL ARE WELCOME!
We are staging in a pavilion on the left, past the museum.
SCHEDULE:
9am to 1 pm: Registration at the venue, where you select which course(s) you wish to do and pay onsite. (Schools with JROTC athletes must preregister at our website: www.Florida orienteering.org)
9:30am - 1:00pm: Participants/teams start at the time of their choosing.
Time limit of 3 hours, but all must be back before 3:00 pm when the courses close.
COURSES OFFERED - Course distances to be announced.
YELLOW - for beginners. Course is mostly on trails with control points a short distance into the woods. There may be opportunities for those who feel able to take short cuts through the woods.
ORANGE - intermediate difficulty. Mix of on- trail and off-trail, generally relying on the more obvious mapped features.
GREEN - advanced course off trail and reliant on the subtler features of the terrain.
BLUE - the longest advanced course.
VIOLET: for our Adventure Race friends, this is a longer course with mix of intermediate and some advanced controls, some in overgrown areas
COSTS:
Venue fee: reduced rate of $2/person payable at our registration table along with:
Course fee: $7 for FLO members; $10 for non-members
E-stick timer rental is $3/team for those who don’t own one.
Compass: bring your own or rent one for $2/ each.
GETTING THERE:
We are NOT at the park entrance by the spring head, but closer to the campgrounds.
Our club uses an app, called What 3 Words, that gives a PRECISE location of where we are staging. Download it and put in this location: ///enter.underscore.detonate
Apple/Google Maps: search for “Florida Agricultural Museum ” then look for our Orange and White signs to direct you to the south part of the parking lot. Address is:
7900 Old Kings Rd N, Palm Coast, FL 32137