Coldham's Common Park-O

Near: Cambridge
Event Type: Local parkland
Postcode: CB5 8NT
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On-line entry: Click here to enter
Entry on the day: Yes, from 12:45. Just turn up!
Registration location: Just over bridge from car park
Entry fees:

• Juniors (U21)/students: £ 3
• Adults and groups: £ 5
• Second run: £ 1
• Timing chips: Free hire
• Payment: Contactless payment preferred. Cash OK

A fun orienteering event aimed at juniors, families and newcomers. Starts will run between 1pm and 3pm.

Pre-entries will open one month before the event (and close 2 days before the event), and we will also accept entries on the day. Registration opens at 12.45pm.

Our Park-O events are an easy way for juniors and adults to try orienteering. Based in parks around Cambridge, Park-O takes place on a Saturday afternoon 1pm-3pm. We schedule our Park-Os in the gaps between our full scale Sunday orienteering events and we hope that once you have tried Park-O you will come along to further events.

Click here to find out more information about Park-O.

We offer the following courses at a Park-O event:

• Short ~ 2km Easy (Comparable to a "Yellow" course at a regular Orienteering event)

• Long ~ 3km Medium difficulty (Comparable to an "Orange" course at a regular O event)

• Odds/Evens score course - intended for more experienced orienteers: visit as many controls as you can within a fixed time limit of 30 minutes. You can get odds and then evens or evens then odds, but once you switch you cannot go back.

Courses close at 3.30pm, so please ensure you pick a start time and course that will allow you to be back by then. You must report to download so that we know you are back safely

Our enquiries/hire dibber collection desk will be near Abbey Sports Centre. Cycle parking just outside the main entrance. Car parking is in the main sports centre car park (free, 200 spaces).

Postcode for Satnav: CB5 8NT

Grateful thanks to Cambridge City Council for letting us explore the common in this way.