Kings Landing

Map scales are 1:5000 for white and yellow courses, and 1:7,500 for all others; contour intervals are 5 meters (16.7 feet).
The map has been updated in 2020 and is accurate.
No drinking water is available on any course due to Covid-19 restrictions.
The park is not large enough to support a classic course longer than Brown, but it is well suited for a time-limited Score O course for the advanced orienteers.
Don’t let the easy runnability and small size of the park lull you into a false sense of security. This park has some of the steepest terrain in QOC’s inventory. It looks benign on the drive in, but what you don’t see will give you burning thighs. Unfortunately, given the fairly small size of the park, there are no long legs. Often the route choice presented will be a relatively shorter but steep route, or the long way around on less steep terrain and maybe a trail. Parallel errors have been known to happen in this park.
The terrain is classic ridge and valley, with broad, flat ridges, lots of deeply incised spurs and reentrants and large marshes.
The hills are steep and can be as many as four to five contours high. These steep slopes may be slippery if it is or has been raining or snowing.
If an area is mapped as marsh (solid blue lines), you should consider it uncrossable (because it is!).
An undefined marshy area (dashed blue lines) may be crossable and you should proceed at your own risk, but it may provide the fastest and shortest route to the next control. Your choice! Marshy areas and reentrants may be bone dry or boot-sucking mud depending on the amount of rain we get during the week prior to the meet. Please make sure to tighten your orienteering shoes or you might lose them in the mud if you opt for that route.

All Courses: The woods and fields are open and very runnable. The light green tends to be areas with saplings and closely spaced trees, and some small areas of thorns. The darker green tends to be areas of fallen trees or mountain laurel (a woody evergreen bush that is not hard to get through, though you may have to zig and zag around the stiff branches. The visibility is excellent throughout the park.
All advanced courses cross a small stream and narrow marshes. Many are narrow enough to jump across, especially if you have long legs or are a good jumper. Most are shallow and if you can’t jump them, you’ll get just your feet wet.

White and Yellow courses: You will enter a maze to get to one of the clues. The maze is printed on the map. Please do not take any shortcuts by cutting through vegetation! You must follow the maze to reach the control and to exit the maze.

Score O: There are 30 controls, all of equal point value with a full spectrum of technical difficulties and route choices. You may start the Score O anytime within your start time window. There will not be a mass start. The objective is to find as many controls as possible, in any order, within a two (2) hour time limit. You decide which controls you want to go to, and in what order. If you find all 30 controls in less than 2 hours, the fastest time wins.
Score O timing: We will allow Score O starts anytime during our start window, even as late as 1:30 PM. However, this means Score O participants starting after 1:00 PM will NOT have the full two hours to complete their course. Sorry, but we must have participants out of the woods by 3 PM regardless of when you started.
Score O Points and Penalties: Each Score O control is valued at 10 points, regardless of its difficulty or distance. 30 controls=300 points possible. Each fraction of a minute over two hours accumulates 10 penalty points. e.g., 1 second over 2 hours is -10 points, and 1:01 is -20 etc.

Enjoy, and may 2021 be a better year for everyone!