You say you’re tired of pickleball?

You say you want to learn a new sport?

You say you have trouble folding a map, prefer not to use the Google Maps App and want to delink from GPS?

Then head to Franko Park in Salisbury Township July 27.

Welcome to the world of “Orienteering,” described as “an outdoor navigation sport.”

“Participants use a map and compass to find check points along a mapped course,” according to the website for Delaware Valley Orienteering Association.

“It’s a sport for any age; beginners are always welcome and we provide instruction at all events,” the DVOA website states.

It’s called “the art of reading a map and a compass.”

The “Orienteering Event,” sponsored by the Delaware Valley Orienteering Association, was approved for July 27 in Franko Park, 1339 Black River Road, by a unanimous 5-0 vote of the Salisbury Board of Commissioners at the May 23 township meeting. Board Vice President Rodney Conn made the motion, seconded by Commissioner Alok Patnaik, to bring the motion to a vote.

“It’s been around since 1967,” Mary Frank, secretary, Delaware Valley Orienteering Association, said.

“We offer cross-country, through the woods,” Frank continued, addressing Salisbury commissioners at the May 23 meeting.

“It’s clearly teaching people to read a map,” Frank said.

“Reading a map, you learn a lot of confidence skills,” Frank said.

“I think everyone should read a map. I was never good at folding them,” board of commissioners President Debra Brinton said.

Knowing your way around a map could help you get around Salisbury Township, which is bisected by the City of Allentown.

“Salisbury Township is the only township in Pennsylvania that’s not contiguous,” Attorney Jason A. Ulrich, partner, Gross McGinley Attorneys At Law, LLP, Salisbury Township solicitor, said at the May 23 meeting.

“Even on the township boundaries, you have to go out of the township to get back in,” Stan Wojciechowski, department head, Municipal Engineering Services, Barry Isett & Associates, Salisbury Township consulting engineer, said.

“We host events all over the Delaware Valley, up into the Scranton area,” Frank said.

“It is already an international sport. We have a U.S. team and a junior team,“ Frank said.

Information on Delaware Valley Orienteering Association events can be found at https://www.dvoa.org/.

June Salisbury Township meetings in the municipal building, 2900 S. Pike Ave., include: 7 p.m. June 12: zoning hearing board; 7 p.m. June 13, board of commissioners; 7 p.m. June 19: environmental advisory council; 7 p.m. June 26, planning commission and 7 p.m. June 27, board of commissioners.