November, 2025 thru March, 2026 OCIN TROL and WARS Season Pass
Season passes give
FREE entry to all league events from November 2025 thru March 2026, plus pre-season events in October!
TROL (Tristate Regional Orienteering League) pass is for students in grade 12 and younger. Students (including home school) should purchase a TROL pass even if they plan to run adult level WARS courses. The TROL season pass includes a year of membership in OCIN and OUSA. Register now for your
2025-2026 TROL season pass (students in high school or younger)
WARS (Winter Adventure Running Series) is for adults who are above high school age. Event rankings are based on age. You may also purchase or renew an OCIN annual membership with your WARS pass. Register now for your
2025-2026 WARS season pass (adults above HS age)
When you register, if you have an Orienteering USA account, the registration system will auto-fill your personal information; if not, select "enter data manually".
Sun, Nov 2, 2025 COO Battelle-Darby, Darbyville, Ohio
Central Ohio Orienteers (COO),
COO website
Sat, November 8, 2025 East Fork, Indian Mound Shelter
TENTATIVE - Full range of courses from white thru red, for all ages. This event will include a special competition for JROTC cadets. (Co-sponsored by Live Oaks JROTC). Starts are open from 10 am to 1 pm. Control pickup begins at 3 pm.
Pre-registration for orienteering members and public is strongly recommended. If you have an Orienteering USA account, it will auto-fill your information; if not, select "enter data manually".
School groups, JROTC teams, and large scout troops should contact
Mike Minium for a spreadsheet entry form and should turn it in by Thursday, November 6. Public pre-registration closes at 9:00 pm, Friday, November 7. Please help us be ready by not waiting to the last minute to register.
This event is included in our 2025-26 TROL/WARS season pass, so entry is FREE if you purchase a
TROL season pass (HS student or younger) or
WARS season pass (adult above high school age)
Park entry or vehicle permit fees: none.
Restroom facilities:portable toilet.
Event center: open sided shelter
3294 Elklick Rd, Bethel, OH 45106. Enter park off Bantam Rd and follow orange and white "orienteering" signs to the Indian Mound Shelter.
Locator map GPS 39.012345, -84.133785
Locator map
Sat, Nov 15, 2025 TROL / WARS Series #1, Camp Butterworth, Maineville, Ohio
Adventure with a map! Participants get a detailed map and try to locate a series of control points shown on the map. Suitable for all ages, you may compete for the fastest time, or just enjoy a leisurely hike, while using our map to explore the park. There will be six different courses of varying difficulty and length - there is one suitable for every adventurer.
Free map and compass instruction for beginners. Event fee is $10 for Orienteering Cincinnati members, $15 for non-members for groups of 1 to 5 doing a course together. $5 for Youth under 18. Starts are open from 11 am to 1 pm.
This event is included in our 2025-26 TROL/WARS season pass, so entry is FREE if you purchase a
TROL season pass (HS student or younger) or
WARS season pass (adult above high school age).
Pre-registration is open - required even if you have a TROL or WARS season pass. Please help us by pre-registering early. Registration closes at 9 pm. on Friday, Nov. 14. See
who's registered
There will also be a special
introduction to orienteering classes just for girl scouts and leaders. Scouts 11 am to 1 pm session. (Register for these through Girl Scouts of Western Ohio. You do NOT need to do the separate registration for the orienteering meet; it is included.)
Starts will be open from 11 am to 1 pm. Full range of courses for all ages. Courses: white easy; yellow intermediate; orange advanced, brown short expert, green expert; red long expert.
Join us for a post-event social, as soon as control pickup is completed. We always appreciate a few extra hands bringing in controls - many hands make post-event clean-up fast and easy.
Park entry or vehicle permit fees: none.
Restroom facilities: modern indoors.
Event Center: indoors but minimally heated building.
Special note: This is a girl scout camp (privately owned); no dogs please; certified service animals only.
Camp Butterworth, 8551 Butterworth Rd, Maineville, OH 45039. GPS 39.313973, -84.248461.
Locator Map
Sun, Nov 16, 2025 MVOC "Turkey Hunt", George Rogers Clark Park, Springfield, Ohio
Organized by Miami Valley Orienteering Club (MVOC) and Ohio River Road Runners Club (ORRRC). MASS START at 12 Noon, 2 hour score-style course (go in any order, get as many as you can within 2 hours, controls have varying point values, you lose points if you are out over 2 hours).
See Event website for more details and pre-registration through Run Sign Up Free for ORRRC members and youth age 14 and under; $5 for older non-members.
Sat, Nov 22, 2025 TROL / WARS Series #2, Diamond Oaks, Dent, Ohio
Adventure with a map! Participants get a detailed map and try to locate a series of control points shown on the map. Suitable for all ages, you may compete for the fastest time, or just enjoy a leisurely hike, while using our map to explore the park. There will be six different courses of varying difficulty and length - there is one suitable for every adventurer.
Free map and compass instruction for beginners. Event Fee is $10 for Orienteering Cincinnati members, $15 for non-members for groups of 1 to 5 doing a course together. $5 for Youth under 18. Starts are open from 11 am to 1 pm.
This event is included in our 2025-26 TROL/WARS season pass, so entry is FREE if you purchase a
TROL season pass (HS student or younger) or
WARS season pass (adult above high school age).
Pre-registration is required even if you have a TROL or WARS season pass. Please help us by pre-registering early. Registration closes at 9 pm. on Friday, Nov. 21. See
who's registered
Full range of courses for all ages. Courses: white easy; yellow intermediate; orange advanced, brown short expert, green expert; red long expert.
Join us for a post-event social at nearby Ron's Roost, a nearby favorite west-side restaurant, as soon as control pickup is completed. We always appreciate a few extra hands bringing in controls - many hands make post-event clean-up fast and easy.
Park entry or vehicle permit fees: none.
Restroom facilities: modern indoors.
Event Center: indoors.
Special note: School grounds: no pets, certified service animals only.
Diamond Oaks Career Campus, 6375 Harrison Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45247. GPS 39.186320, -84.655937
Saturday, November 29, 2025 TROL Training Day. Oxford, OH
Sat, Nov 29 will be a youth training day program at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (meet at the Richard Farmer School of Business in East Quad). Program starts at 9 am and will end about 5:30 pm. Lunch sandwiches, snacks, and pizza dinner included. This program altrenates classroom instruction with several outdoor courses and activities, starting at a beginner level and becoming prgressively more advanced and challenging throughout the day. Dress for the weather!
TROL Training day will be at Richard Farmer School of Business, Miami University (East Quad), Oxford, OH. GPS: 39.511083, -84.729775. Pre-registrants will receive instructions to obtain a FREE Miami Univ Parking Permit. Note that there is a home football game in the afternoon, so parking will be enforced. Football traffic should not affect access to our area.
Register for TROL Training Day 2025. Fees are $15 for youth. $30 for adults; $15 discount for TROL and WARS season pass holders.
The
Marcum Hotel at Miami University is offering a $50 per night discount off of their regular room rates for participants of this event. Call 513-529-6911 to reserve your room today, mentioning "Holiday Special" to secure the special rate.
Location: Richard Farmer School of Business, East Quad, Miami University. GPS 39.511083, -84.729775. From the intersection of High St and Patterson Ave, go east on High and look for parking on both sides.
Sunday, Nov 30, 2025 TROL / WARS Series #3, Oxford, OH
Adventure with a map! Participants get a detailed map and try to locate a series of control points shown on the map. Suitable for all ages, you may compete for the fastest time, or just enjoy a leisurely hike, while using our map to explore the park. There will be six different courses of varying difficulty and length - there is one suitable for every adventurer.
The
Marcum Hotel at Miami University is offering a $50 per night discount off of their regular room rates for participants of this event. Call 513-529-6911 to reserve your room today, mentioning "Holiday Special" to secure the special rate.
Sun, Nov 30 will be a regular season TROL/WARS event, location to be announced. It will NOT be the same as the Training Day. Pre-registrants will receive instructions to obtain a FREE Miami Univ Parking Permit.
Pre registration opening soon!
Sat, Dec 6, 2025 TROL / WARS Series #4 - Patricia Allyn Park, Lebanon, OH
NJROTC Area 14 and 15 Championships
Adventure with a map! Participants get a detailed map and try to locate a series of control points shown on the map. Suitable for all ages, you may compete for the fastest time, or just enjoy a leisurely hike, while using our map to explore the park. There will be six different courses of varying difficulty and length - there is one suitable for every adventurer.
Range of courses from white through red.
pre-registration information coming soon. Free for TROL and WARS season passholders. JROTC units should use a spreadsheet entry form - Contact Captain Scott Eberwine at Hamilton HS NJROTC.
Patricia Allyn Park is located Ohio Route 48 north of Lebanon, Ohio (south of Centerville, Ohio), just south of OH 73. 7266 Ohio 48, Springboro, OH. GPS 39.590655, -84.161442
Sat, Dec 6, 2025 MVOC Night Score-O, Cricket Holler, Dayton, Ohio
TENTATIVE - Organized by Miami Valley Orienteering Club (MVOC). Mass start at 6 pm.
See MVOC website for more details
Sat, Dec 13, 2025 COO Scioto-Audubon MetroPark, Whittier Peninsula, Columbus, Ohio
Mass Start event, see the Central Ohio Orienteers (COO),
COO website
Sat Dec 13, 2025 TROL / WARS Series #5 - ICO at Story West, Story, IN
This will use the area from the cancelled day of 2025 Flying Pig. For more information, visit the
ICO website
This will be a one day National Ranking Event (NRE). Although it is a little farther from Cincinnati, because this is a National Ranking Event, we will make this the TROL/WARS event for this weekend.
Pre registration opening soon!
Sat, Dec 20, 2025 TROL / WARS Series #6
Location TBA - Adventure with a map! New map in Northern Kentucky. Participants get a detailed map and try to locate a series of control points shown on the map. Suitable for all ages, you may compete for the fastest time, or just enjoy a leisurely hike, while using our map to explore the park. There will be six different courses of varying difficulty and length - there is one suitable for every adventurer.
Dec 31 and Jan 1, 2026 OCIN New Year's events, OH
Details tba. Adventure with a map! Participants get a detailed map and try to locate a series of control points shown on the map. Suitable for all ages, you may compete for the fastest time, or just enjoy a leisurely hike, while using our map to explore the park. There will be several different courses of varying difficulty and length - there is one suitable for every adventurer.
Range of courses from white tgough red
Sat, Jan 10, 2026 TROL / WARS Series event
Location TBA - Adventure with a map! Participants get a detailed map and try to locate a series of control points shown on the map. Suitable for all ages, you may compete for the fastest time, or just enjoy a leisurely hike, while using our map to explore the park. There will be six different courses of varying difficulty and length - there is one suitable for every adventurer.
Jan, 2026 Georgia Navigator Cup, Chattahoochee Bend State Park, GA
pre-registration required. Details coming soon. Normal format is: Friday Middle Distance Race. 2-stage Classic Distance races on Sat and Sun (full range of courses). The annual Mal Harding Extreme-O on MLK Monday.
March 20-22, 2026 US Individual Nationals, Maryland
pre-registration required.
Event Website.
April 10-12, 2026 OCIN Flying Pig XXVIII, OUSA 2026 Junior Nationals
. All three races are NRE sanctioned.
Friday April 10 - Afternoon Middle Distance NRE (National Ranking Event) at Hueston Woods State Park, Oxford, Ohio
Saturday - Sunday, April 11-12 - - OUSA Junior Nationals - Two-Day Classic at Mounds State Recreation Area, Brookville, Indiana
Early
lodging information and room blocks will be posted soon. Spring weekends in the college town of Oxford, Ohio will be busy. The good news is two new hotels are opening soon in Oxford (Fairfield Inn opens this August, Holiday Inn Express is supposed to open before the Pig)
Embargo At this time, all parts of Mounds State Recreation Area are embargoed for orienteering events and training, except you may use the campground and beach. You may drive the paved park roads to access the campgrounds, beach and boat ramps.
Embargo At this time, all parts of Hueston Woods State Park are embargoed for orienteering events and training, except you may use the campground, golf course, marina, beach, lodge, and cabins. You may drive the paved park roads to access the non-embargoed facilities. Please note that the mountain bike, equestrian, and disc golf facilities are embargoed and may not be used prior to the event on April 10.
May 31-June 5, 2026 Texas Junior Orienteering Camp, Bridgeport, Texas
Week-long adventure of orienteering courses, training, competitions and fun, for high school and younger students who are successfully completing orienteering courses at yellow level and above. Selective admission.
July 19-26, 2026 Silva O' Camp, Vidnava, Czech Republic
International orienteering training camp for youth 17 and under.
