This course is a little different in that you have to not only navigate to the right spot but you also have to identify the correct answer to the clue. Not all are very straightforward so pay close attention!

Keep track of your answers on a sheet of paper and submit your time and answer to Nathan Graves at cavemelon@hotmail.com and we will “grade” and post them.

The first records of this course date to 1976 from the Orienteering Resource Agency with additional field work and drafting completed in 1985.  The original course control markers were iron stakes with 3D triangular iron tops.  Over the years the stakes fell into disrepair.  Beginning in 2022, with the permission of the Park, the St. Louis Orienteering Club (SLOC) restored the original course by replacing the iron stakes with brown carsonite markers.  Along the way, another set of white carsonite stakes were found, and with no known map of that course, these additional seven controls were added to the permanent course represented on this map, totaling 27 total controls.

If you would like to post your time, please send an email to nathan@stlouisorienteering.org and we will post it. Please send us a link to a GPS track, with your time, the date, distance, and the name(s) of those who completed it. You are welcome to run this as many times as you would like.

You can purchase the map and clue information for this course on our maps page here.