Northeast Ohio Orienteering Club

aMAIZEing Night-O: Northeastern Ohio Orienteering Club's Fun Night at Szalay’s Corn Maze!

Saturday, October 25, 2025 - Event announcement on the Northeastern Ohio Orienteering Club website for their aMAIZEing Night-O 2025 at Szalay’s Corn Maze!

On Saturday, October 25, 2025, our family attended the annual aMAIZEing Night-O. Our family recommends the corn maze at Szalay's Farm & Market! It is excellent!!! And, we HIGHLY recommend walking the corn maze at the annual NIGHT orienteering event with the Northeastern Ohio Orienteering Club (NEOOC)! If you want to attend a future NEOOC orienteering event, they are open to all!

Last year and this year, we made a point of arriving early, before the NEOOC orienteering event, to take in the fun atmosphere of Szalay's Farm & Market. We purchased dinner (note that the food service booths only take cash for purchases), and sat at a swinging picnic table. After dinner, we enjoyed seeing this beautiful display of produce, and -- special this time of year -- the Halloween decorations. Since we stayed until dark, we were able to see the care the employees took in putting away the produce display for the night.

aMAIZEing Night-O: Northeastern Ohio Orienteering Club's Fun Night at Szalay’s Corn Maze!

The maze is not normally open to the general public during the evening, so it was special for the Northeastern Ohio Orienteering Club members to be able to navigate the maze in the dark!! If you want to attend a future NEOOC night orienteering event, just bring a flashlights and have basic knowledge of how to read a map.

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Six Days: Ten Cleveland Metroparks and Orienteering in Geauga Park District

Cleveland Metroparks 2024 Trail Challenge

Welcome to the 2024 Trail Challenge, a guest led program where you are challenged to complete 10 trails in 10 different Cleveland Metroparks reservations on your own in 2024! Explore new trails, move to better health, discover the wonders of nature, and earn a prize.

My wife and co-blogger, Julie, and I have completed the Cleveland Metroparks Trail Challenge in the past, taking most of the year to do it. This year, I decided to do something different, and complete the challenge in one week. I picked the first full week of February (5 days: February 5-9, 2024) to hike "... in 10 different Cleveland Metroparks reservations ..." In total, I hiked five days on 14 trails in ten reservations, and worked out at a gym on four of the mornings. I also ended the week on Saturday, February 10, 2024, by attending a Northeastern Ohio Orienteering Club event where they had developed a new map for the Geauga Park District's The West Woods.

What follows are some trail resources, followed by information and photos/videos from the trails I hiked. I hope this blog post encourages you to get out on our local park trails in 2024!

Cleveland Metroparks 2024 Trail Challenge

Saturday, February 10, 2024 - 2024 West Woods Classic-O

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2 of 3: Fun Father's Day Weekend: Saturday -- Service Project & The Longest Day of Play

2 of 3: Fun Father's Day Weekend: Saturday -- Service Project & The Longest Day of Play

I decided to create these three blog posts to remind me of the three days of fun I had over Father's Day Weekend. The text is the same at the beginning of all three, so I encourage you to read the tweets within the posts that tell the story of:

2 of 3: Fun Father's Day Weekend: Saturday -- Service Project & The Longest Day of Play

Read tweets below in this blog post to learn about:

  • Northeast Ohio Orienteering Club (NEOOC) service project at Richfield Heritage Preserve
    Be sure to click on the links in the tweets to learn about both of these great organizations!
  • Cleveland Metroparks  “The Longest Day of Play” at Euclid Beach
  • Cleveland United Way 2-1-1 service
  • Plastic Free Lake Erie
  • Step Forward - Ohio's designated anti-poverty agency for Cuyahoga County with early childhood education programs, adult skills training, and other services
  • Especially large waves on Lake Erie on this windy day. Be sure to view the videos of the waves.
  • Cleveland Metroparks Euclid Beach concessions serving Honey Hut Ice Cream
  • Drum circle and dancing
  • Ohio Sea Grant
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