Checkpoint Challenges Customer Photo Forget about fitting a meet into your calendar! This new way to orienteer uses your smartphone for navigation, allowing you to explore our courses whenever it suits you.

Checkpoint Challenges

About Checkpoint Challenges

Do you enjoy walking in the park or going on hikes but want to keep your mind active at the same time?

Get ready for an outdoor adventure like no other with Checkpoint Challenges. Create your own route between the marked points while refining your map reading abilities!

Orienteering in the Digital Age...

Much like traditional orienteering, each course consists of a series of points on a map that must be visited in sequence. Participants choose their routes between checkpoints and return to the Start. However, instead of using a large paper map, your smartphone will display only the current map segment with a compass overlay, progress updates, and hints to avoid getting lost.

Enjoy whenever you want at your own pace...

There is no need to wait for a club meet as our courses are available whenever you are. Enjoyed as either a competitive sport, with rankings for each leg of the course, or a recreational activity, this enriching outdoor pursuit is prefect for any active person or group of adventurers.


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What are people saying about Checkpoint Challenges?

Customer Reviews

This is a must do for anybody who likes hiking, map reading, or orienteering!
Evan
Did this solo and really enjoyed it. Going to take some friends out next time!
Dave
Always looking for something unusual to do with my girlfriend and this way a hit with both of us!
Noah
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Checkpoint Challenges Highlights

  • Enriching
  • Challenging
  • Individuals or groups
  • Checkpoints
  • Anytime
  • Compass Reading
  • No reservations
  • Physical
  • Outdoors
  • Running
  • Team building
  • Competition
  • Active
  • Contest
  • Flat rate price
  • GPS
  • Race
After surveying 158 people ages 18 to 87, researchers concluded that orienteering may be more beneficial than physical activity alone. That's because exercising while navigating activates the parts of the brain our ancestors used for hunting and gathering, but which are largely dormant now as people rely on GPS to find their way around.
Time Magazine

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