Online registration link coming here soon
Advance online registration is required for this event
Makes things fast and easy for YOU on event day (no paperwork or payment)
Simplifies processing the results
Helps meet directors know how many maps to print
See who’s attending, maybe plan a carpool
Quick info
Registration deadline: Thursday, Feb 27, 11:00pm
Location: Lucky Lab Pub, Multnomah Village, SW Portland 7675 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland, 97219
Times: Pub opens at 5:00. Map handout starts at 5:30. Plan your route, mass start at 6:00 sharp. Course closes at 7:30 pm.
Course: Score O format. Find as many checkpoints as you can, in any order, within 90 minutes
Cost: $12 individuals, $17 teams, ($5 discount for club members)
Event Director: Helene and Jaime Wren
Event overview
Come out to Multnomah Village for CROC's annual urban night orienteering! Run or stroll the back streets, alleys, and trails of this SW Portland neighborhood on a night-time urban navigation adventure.
This urban course is perfect for those new to orienteering. Both individuals and teams are welcome. We will have a mass start together at sunset and then you will have 90 minutes to run your course, finishing in the dark! After the event, stay for social hour! Share your route with others and hang out. We've been doing this event for about 15 years, it's always a lot of fun!
New for 2025: MapRun!
Using your phone, the MapRun phone app will have the controls/ checkpoints for the course.
While MapRun is preferred, there will also be a paper and pencil option with Q&A format to verify each control found.
MapRun - Orienteering using your smartphone
An exciting new way to enjoy orienteering has arrived in the last couple years. It is now possible to go orienteering using your smartphone and GPS technology.
MapRun is a smartphone app, that can let you download an orienteering event and run it. To participate, you need a smartphone and have downloaded the MapRun app (available from Google Play or the App Store) to your GPS-enabled smartphone.
Download Maprun here
For best results, you should use the latest MapRunF version. There is even a MapRunG version intended for Garmin fitness watch users.
Unlike traditional orienteering courses where you find orange and white flags set the day of the event, this course uses permanent objects such as fire hydrants, yard art, and signs. You'll get a map with about 30 marked checkpoints and with the MapRun app, you will locate each point and the app will log your find.
While the MapRun app is preferred, there will be an optional paper and pencil option with multiple choice questions for those that prefer.
This is a good event to do as a team as well as individually, so feel free to bring a friend.
Maximum team size is six people
We're starting at dusk, so you’ll have some twilight before it gets fully dark
Be very careful crossing busy streets! Always give cars the right-of-way, they can’t see you.
The finish (at 7:30 on the dot!) is back at Lucky Lab. After the run, next comes the fun! Join everyone upstairs from 7:30 to 9:00 for social hour. Come and share your routes with others and socialize with CROC. CROC has the space reserved for just us, so no one will judge if you are a little sweaty! Food (Pizza!) and drink will be available for purchase.
Event Rules
Mass start at 6:00 pm sharp. Pub upstairs opens at 5:00, map handout is at 5:30. Please arrive early to register and plan your route.
You have 90 minutes to find as many checkpoints as you can in any order you like and then return to the finish.
You do NOT have to find all the checkpoints.
You get one point for each correct answer. (The are also 3 point bonus checkpoints, so plan a route that visits some of those.)
1 point is deducted for each wrong answer (no guessing) and for each minute over the time limit (don't be late!)
If you’re on a team, stay together - no splitting up.
No GPS enabled devices (phones) are allowed for navigation assistance.
Participants under age 18 must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
What to bring
A quality flashlight or headlamp with fresh batteries, one for each person on your team. Please keep your light on at all times during the event to increase your visibility.
Clothing appropriate for the weather. Reflective / high visibility clothing is highly recommended.
A watch/phone to be sure you don't take longer than 90 minutes on the course.
A highlighter pen is handy for marking your intended route, hint hint.
New to Orienteering? Welcome!
Our events are open to both members and non-members. Beginners, families and dogs are welcome.
We will offer a beginner clinic at 5:30 pm at this event, however, please take a close look at the “Event Overview”, and “Event Rules” sections above for all the details.
No compass is needed, just decent map reading skills.
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Thanks for coming out and trying something new, we think you'll like it!
Registration
Advance online registration is required. There is no event day registration.
Application deadline: Thurs, Feb 27, 11:00pm
Refund policy: full refund if requested more than 48 hours before the start time of the event. Email us to request a refund and we’ll work it out.
Event Cost
$12 base price - individuals
$17 base price, teams of 2 or more. (Maximum team size is six people.)
- Subtract $5 if you’re a member or CROC or other orienteering club (Join CROC)
Online registration link coming here soon
Results
Results will be posted on the Events & Results page a few days after the event.
Practice/Training
CROC has a permanent training course established in this area. If you try it before the night-O, you may have an unfair advantage, hint hint! See complete details here.
Here’s an example of the permanent course map. The map we use for competitive night O looks a lot like this one.
Multnomah Village permanent orienteering course map example