The Great Forest Rogaine continues to evolve with record youth participation. More than 540 competitors took part in this year’s Great Forest Rogaine, reaffirming its place as one of New Zealand’s premier navigation and endurance events. Hosted by Orienteering Bay of Plenty (OBOP), the event once again brought together mountain bikers, rogainers, adventure racers, families […]

New Zealand’s most popular and one of the longest standing Rogaines is back for 2026! What is the 2026 GFR? The Great Forest Rogaine has several categories: 3 hour foot, 3 hour mtb and for 2026, we are introducing a new adventure category to replace the 6 hour mountain bike. This new category will be a combination of foot […]

Hosted by Orienteering Bay of Plenty (OBOP) with support from Taupo Orienteering club, the 2026 NZMTBO Championships will be held close to Rotorua. This promises to be a fantastic weekend of competition, challenge, and fun for Mountain Bikers, Orienteers, and Adventure Racers of all abilities. We expect competitive fields that will suit experienced and competitive athletes. […]

It is the second year for orienteering as a school sports code at the Zespri Aims Games, and the numbers have improved from 260 to 320 per day which is a good increase. Most are doing both events as the price incentivises students to do both the sprint and rogaine events giving  young people the […]

Orienteering BOP and the Taupō Orienteering Club are delighted to announce that entries are now open for the Tūāraki (Northern) Regional Champs, taking place in and around Rotorua and Taupō on 8–9 November 2025. We are excited to showcase some amazing courses and terrain, including a resurrection of the famous Ōpepe map, and an exciting […]

On behalf of Orienteering Bay of Plenty and Taupo Orienteering and, hosts of the Tūāraki NorthRegional Orienteering Championships 2025, we advise the following embargoes applying tocompetition areas. An embargo restricts athletes access to competition areas prior to the competition taking place, toensure unfair advantage is not gained by people visiting the area prior to competition. […]

The Vegas Vindaloo MTBO Weekend is back for 2024!  One weekend, three events – Sprint, Long and Rogaine.  Tempt your tastebuds by giving MTB orienteering a go!  And great build up for anyone going to Australian MTBO Champs at end of October.  Events are targeted at individuals, but welcome to compete as team (particularly the rogaine).  […]

OBOP are going to be sending a parcel across to SI Germany with a number of flat SIACs that need their batteries replacing.  The freight is very expensive. If any other clubs/orienteers around NZ have SIACs with flat batteries that are welcome to send to Erin Swanson (OBOP President) and she can add to parcel to get […]

The Great Forest Rogaine is back for 2024 – starting from a new mystery location but still promising an awesome day out in Whakarewarewa Forest! 3 and 6 hour rogaine events with Foot and MTB options.  Get together a group of friends or family for a great adventure – you are guaranteed to go places […]

Run in top quality events on the Crater Block map, and enjoy the thermal wonderland of Rotorua and Taupō. Entries are now open for the NZ Orienteering Champs taking place at Easter 2024, including three events on the epic Crater Block map, Te Pūtake Maunga. Enter now via enterO Early bird entry fees apply until Sunday 25 February. Be an extra […]

The latest news update including: View from the Chair; Legends of Orienteering – Robbie; High Performance Update – 2020 Trials dates; Camps update; Club Spotlight; Map Making Course;

Want to experience a fantastic weekend of top level mountain bike orienteering?  The 2019 NZ MTB Orienteering Champs will be hosted in Rotorua, NZ’s MTBing mecca, on 9th and 10th November.

Orienteering NZ News, Updates, and with the end of the year approaching fast, its timely to have a look at what’s happened in 2018.

Although November started with CDOA Championships, highly successfully hosted by OBOP, it has since been an essentially quiet month. On the HP front much of it has been taken up with final preparation of the ONZ bid for JWOC2022, and with mapping, planning and general organization for the U23 Development Camp which starts next Saturday. […]

3-4 November 2018.  Middle, Sprint and Long distance events.  The Long distance will be an A Level event on our fantastic new Okareka Map.  “You have to run a top level event on this map” in the words of Nick Hahn, the mapper. 

Vindaloo MTBO Weekend 2018 Orienteering Bay of Plenty (OBOP) is running the Vegas Vindaloo Mountain Bike Orienteering (MTBO) Weekend on 29-30 September 2018. MTBO Sprint, MTBO Long and MTBO Rogaine on the fantastic trails around Rotorua. Central Districts Foot Orienteering Championships 2018 OBOP is also resurrecting the Central Districts Foot Orienteering Champs on 3-4 November […]

Orienteering Bay of Plenty (OBOP) was blown away by the number of competitors at this year’s MTB Adventure Quest.