Lake Rhodhiss Trailfest

Save the date for October 12, 2024 at 8:00am to Tackle the Trails at Valdese Lakeside Park. Choose your challenge – 5K, 10K or 10-mile. There is also a free 1 mile fun run for kids. (Formerly The New Years Resolution Runs)

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$25 registration fee ($30 after 8/30) – If you register through Ultra Signup, tax is applied for a toral of $25.68 and $31.35

To avoid the post-Christmas travel conflicts and potential weather issues, we’ve moved our trail races into October, where we hope to welcome you with cool, dry, and beautiful conditions on the trails of Valdese Lakeside Park. So, what’s different? What’s the same?

LRT is definitely version 2.0 of the NYRR events as we’re not only changing the courses (maybe not the fun run) but also adding a ten miler for those of you who just can’t get enough of the Valdese Lakeside Park trail network! The courses are not yet finalized but expect the 5K to get a little easier/faster, while the 10K and 10-miler will both utilize the recently opened multi-use/bike trail for some of their miles.

Lake Rhodhiss Trailfest will unofficially serve as an opening act for the following weekend’s Great Trails State Day events at Valdese Lakeside Park, where Friends of the Valdese Rec is challenging all park visitors to accumulate a combined 2,000 miles of hiking, running, biking, paddling, etc… on that single Saturday.)

So, for those of you unfamiliar with the park, expect mostly single track with varying degrees of roots and rocks, along with more hills than you might expect. For those of you who have participated in the New Year’s races, we are not using the Tributary (orange) trail for these races as heavy rains have really made parts of it less like a trail and more like a dried creek bed.

Stay tuned for more details, including course maps and other helpful information.

5K route is a little more than 5K! Shown below.

Below is the 10K Route. The 10 Mile Route is the same with an extra loop around the Hollipop Mountain Bike Trail.

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