Sites and Facilities
Wycoller Country Park Orienteering
The permanent Orienteering Course has been developed to give you a chance to try a non-competitive or leisure form of the sport using your map reading skills to navigate around a course of 'markers' or controls. You can obtain your Orienteering packs for the Information Desk or from the Craft Centre.
What You Need
A map enclosed in the pack. The circles with letters beside them show the location of all the control markers set out in the park. Your control card has numbered boxes which you fill in as you visit the control markers. You will need shoes and clothing suitable for a country walk. You will need a pen/pencil to fill in the control card. A compass could be a help, but it is not a necessity.
Choose A Course
Choose one of the courses listed
White - a very easy course 1.65km long
Yellow - A fairly easy course 1.9km long
Orange - medium difficulty 2.35km long
Score Course - difficult collect all controls in any order. You could time yourself to see how fast you can do it.
What to do
The start and finish point is shown on the map as a 
.
The start is over the stile in the field on the other side of the Clam
Bridge. It is like all the other control posts. The
indicates that this is the start. The other posts have the code letter and number
instead of the .
The 
shows that this is also the finish. Once you have started, visit the control
markers for your course in the order shown. You can choose your own route between
markers.
A control marker is a wooden post approximately 1/2 metre high. Each post has a red and white flag painted on it and engraved on it is a letter and a code number. The letter is the same one shown on the map and the course list. You will need to copy the code number onto your control card in the appropriate numbered box. You can note your start and finish time on your card and time yourself around the course. You are welcome to do the other suggested courses at any time.
The Map
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Lancashire County Council OS Licence No.100023320 2004
The map has been drawn specifically for the purpose of orienteering and you need to look at the legend to understand some of the symbols. In particular, note that Yellow means open land and rough open land. White is pleasant woodland, Blue is water features. All buildings, footpaths and tracks are shown in black. The black vertical lines with black arrow heads show magnetic north. Try to keep in 'contact' with the map. Look out for all the features on the map as you pass them. keep the map 'orientated' (turned round) so that it is pointing the way you are heading. A compass is useful to check your direction in order to keep the north end of your map pointing north.
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