Megunticook Trail Festival
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Megunticook Trail Festival
The Megunticook Trail Festival is a set of three trail races held in Camden Hills State Park in Camden, Maine during September 2027. Entries are limited. Registration opens January 12, 2027. The registration fee includes a bib, a t shirt, a swag item, and a post race meal. The event does not offer refunds; deferrals are allowed for pregnancy or for volunteering.
Distances offered
- 50K
- Halfast 20k
- Wicked Tough 10K
The 50K course covers over 90 percent of the park trails with minimal overlap. It includes about 7,600 feet of elevation gain, steep rocky and rooty singletrack, multiple brooks and streams, six aid stations, and summits of Battie, Bald Rock, Derry, Frohock, Cameron, and Megunticook. The course has a few short out and back sections and relies on runner navigation despite course markings.
The Halfast 20k runs mainly on wide gravel multi use trail with only 3.9 km of singletrack. Total elevation gain is about 1,900 feet. The route includes one summit at Cameron Mountain and two aid stations, one of which is visited twice.
The Wicked Tough 10K is primarily trail through woods with roughly 1,600 feet of elevation gain, ledge sections with ocean views, and technical terrain of rocks and roots.
The festival is held on the ancestral, unceded lands of the Wabanaki Nations. Indigenous participants are invited to run free of charge and attendees may support Niweskok, a Wabanaki led organization. Visit the organization's website for the most recent information.
