Delaware Valley Orienteering Association (DVOA) is the oldest and largest orienteering

Orienteering

Orienteering is a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they...

 club in the United States

United States

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. Caroline and Kent Ringo and others provided leadership from the late 1960s into the 2000s. DVOA distributes the popular Clue computer program for making control description sheets.

DVOA held its first orienteering meet on November 5, 1967, at Valley Forge

Valley Forge

Valley Forge in Pennsylvania was the site of the military camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777–1778 in the American Revolutionary War.-History:...

. DVOA coordinated the United States Orienteering Championships in 1982 and 1992, with a then-US record 705 orienteers competing in the 1982 championships.

DVOA has permanent orienteering courses at several locations, including French Creek State Park

French Creek State Park

French Creek State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in North Coventry and Warwick Townships in Chester County and Robeson and Union Townships in Berks County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It straddles northern Chester County and southern Berks County along French Creek. The park is the...

and Nottingham Park in southeastern Pennsylvania.

The DVOA motto is "No Matter Where You Go There You Are!"