Brazos Bend State Park Volunteer Organization
BRAZOS BEND STATE PARK

Nature Center Orienteering Course

Orienteering is the skill of using a map and compass to find your way through unfamiliar terrain and to locate landmarks without getting lost.   This permanent course was set up to serve as an introduction to orienteering.  The 2-kilometer course begins and ends at the flagpole in front of the Nature center at Brazos Bend State Park.  Each of the 12 Control Points (CP) consist of a 4” x 4” green post with a number and letter on it.

Click HERE to download a PDF file (325mb) containing:

Introduction Sheet (Page 1): This page gives basic information about the course, 2KM route, Control Point Legend and GPS coordinates for each Control Point.

Orienteering Map (Page 2): This is the basic map that will be used for the course.

Orienteering Map 2 (Page 3): This so called “Blind” map gives Control Points with no other landmarks to make the exercise more difficult.

Orienteering Worksheet (Page 4): This page gives spaces to fill in bearings and distances from each Control Point to the next.

Orienteering Alternate Worksheet (Page 5): This page gives spaces to fill in bearings and distances and Control Points.

 A limited number of maps are also available at the park’s Nature Center

If you or your group is interested in a class on “Introduction to Orienteering”
please contact David Heinicke, Park Naturalist,  Brazos Bend State Park 979-553-5124.

Updated: Mon, Sep 3, 2007

The purpose of the Volunteer organization is to assist and educate the visitors of Brazos Bend State Park through
information and interpretive programs and to assist in the care and conservation of the Park.

Brazos Bend State Park
21901 FM 762
Needville, TX 77461
(979) 553-5101