Top End Orienteers

The Howard Springs Pine Forest is a fantastic location and offers so many new features to find compared to our other orienteering sites. Come and try one of our newest maps.

Mostly shady cypress pine plantation forest with very little long grass - very pleasant to walk through for this time of year. Some mixed forest with patches of soft spear grass 1-2m high. Abundant beautiful late wet season water features - some parts of the last year''s dry season course have been drowned! Easy course is mostly on winding tracks. Long course participants be prepared to get wet feet (unavoidable). No hills. Map has been recently fully redrawn with many new single tracks. A generally pretty and pleasant place to wander around for your Sunday morning.

Admin

Ted Mumme

Rose Stephens

Control collector

Ted Mumme

Lana Luders

Izabelle Luders

Dennis Luders

Marj King

Susanne Casanova

Cook

Andrew Simon

Maureen Simon

Course Planner

Paul Sharp

Organiser

Plaxy Purich

Time

Start between 7:30 am and 9:15 am

Finish by 11:00 am

Courses offered

Easy

3.0

km

12

controls

Moderate

4.5

km

11

controls

Hard-Short

5.0

km

13

controls

Hard-Long

7.5

km

18

controls

Coaching

Coaching is available between 8:00 am and 9:45 am

Directions

Howard Springs Pine Forest. (NOT the Nature Park). Gunn Point Road, Howard Springs. Approximately 600m east of the Nature Park turn-off on Gunn Point Road, look for O sign turning onto a pine forest track, follow O signs through forest about 900m to start location. Suitable for 2wd vehicles.

The location provided in this map is approximate. The nearest position provided in Google Maps has been used. Please follow orienteering signs when you arrive.