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Western States Championships

Calero County Park

Date: Mar. 1 - 2, 2025
Location: San Jose, CA
Event Director: - 415.309.1853
Course Setters: John Richardson, Misha Kreslavsky
Type: A; Two days of 7-course National Ranking Events (NREs) for beginners through advanced; everyone, including beginners, is welcome either or both days; free, brief, beginner instruction will be available; results combined for the Western States Champs (pending park approval)

Related Event Information

Last Year’s Calero Event

Please note that fees and time limits apply. Events are typically not canceled due to bad weather.


This will be a two-day National Ranking Event (NRE) on a new map of this classic venue, with a Middle event on Saturday and a Classic event on Sunday. A point system will be used to combine the results of the two days to determine the Western States Champions.

Note: Everyone is welcome to participate in either or both days as "recreational" entrants.

Information will be available closer to the event.

News Flash

This event is going to be the U.S. Team Trials for the WOC (https://www.woc2025.fi) (in Finland in July) and JWOC (https://www.jwoc2025.it/) (in Italy in June). So, we will get to see the top U.S. orienteers in action. Also, since the JWOC Team Trials require a Sprint event, there will be one on Friday afternoon or evening at a location to be determined (permitting is in process). The Sprint event will likely be an NRE, which would make this a 3-NRE event!

The OUSA announcement is available here (https://orienteeringusa.org/2024/12/2025-woc-jwoc-team-trials-announced/) (released December 2, 2024).