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West Anglian Orienteering Club

Park-OWandlebury Country ParkSat 10 January, 2026

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Near: Cambridge
Level of event: Local
Type of event: Race

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Wow, what a turnout on a cold day, including lots of new faces. We hope you enjoyed it.

Thanks for all our volunteers and we apologise for the small delay opening up the start.

Pre Event Info

Location Info

* Postcodes are not very precise in some areas, so don't rely on them for an exact location.

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

You can register in advance using oentry.uk. We will also accept entries on the day, but it makes things go more smoothly if you register to let us know you are intending to come along. We only take payment when you arrive on the day.

Park-O Series Info

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 all our events.

What happens at Park-O? Click here to find out...

Park-O How-to Guide

Read more about this series

Directions / Parking

Wandlebury Country Park is located on the Gog Magog Hills just south of Cambridge. The park is 2 miles south of Addenbrooke’s Hospital roundabout on A1307 between Cambridge and Haverhill.

Postcode for satnav: CB22 3AE. It is signposted off the A1307

Entry to the park is free, but car parking charges apply (£3 for any length of visit; members of CPPF and disabled drivers park free). The car parking machine only accepts coins.

There is a cycle path from Cambridge alongside the A1307 to the park. Cycling is not allowed in the park (except young children) but cycle parking is available at the car park.

Wandlebury is also well-served by Stagecoach Citiplus X13 and X13a bus service between Cambridge and Haverhill. There are stops close to the park entrance.

Course Information

We typically 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.

If you want to know more about how we grade courses as "Easy", "Medium" etc., look for the "Colour Coded Course Standards" section in our beginners' guide.

Entry Details

Each entry costs £3 for individual juniors/students and £5 for adults (21yrs+) or groups. This includes one map and the loan of a timing chip (dibber). Entry for a second course on the same day is just £1 subject to map availability.

In order to ensure you get to run the course of your choice, we recommend that you pre-register to take part in this event, which you can do at WAOC entries at oentry.uk (Entries are open now, and will close at end of Thu, 8th January 2026).

You will be allocated a hire dibber, if you do not have one. No payment is required until you turn up for the event. Please bring a credit or debit card for payment.

You can also just turn up and enter on the day, but bear in mind it will take longer to process your entry. Please bring a credit or debit card for payment.

If you haven't been before, please read the information on our Park-O page so that you know what to do - we will have officials around to help if needed.

Registration and Start Times

Starts will operate between 1pm and 3pm.

Please note that courses close at 3:30pm. If you wish to do the long course, you need to start by 2:30pm, unless you have sufficient experience that you will be able to finish before 3:30pm.

Terrain and map details

Course maps will be A4 sized, printed on waterproof paper.