Beaufort Water Festival 5k-10K
About this race
The 70th Annual Beaufort Water Festival welcomes you to the festival’s fourth event of the year, the 5k/10k on Saturday, May 2nd 2026. The 5K/10K race will start at 8:00 AM in the beautiful town of Port Royal at the Live Oaks Park. This wonderful flat course takes you along the moss-draped giant live oaks with beautiful views of the Intracoastal Waterway. The course is USATF Certified #SC18011DW
The 5k is a run or walk for $25.00 and the 10k is a run only for $30.00. Walk-up registration will be available the day of the race for $25.00 for the 5K and $30.00 for the 10K. Participants pre-registered by April 22, 2026 will receive a 70th Annual Beaufort Water Festival 5K/10K t-shirt. Registration after April 22, 2026 and walk-up registration does not include a t-shirt. There may be some t-shirts for sale the day of but this cannot be guaranteed.
Timing is provided by Grounded Running. Awarded categories include: overall male, overall female, and the top 3 in each age division.
Pre-registered packet pick-up will take place at Grounded Running, located at 2139 Boundary Street, Suite 108 on Friday, May 1st, 2026 from 12-5:00 PM and at Live Oaks Park in Port Royal on Saturday morning from 7:00-7:40 AM. Walk-up race day registration will take place on Saturday morning from 7:00-7:40 AM to ensure an on-time start at 8:00 AM.
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Running
70th Beaufort Water Festival 5k Run/Walk
70th Beaufort Water Festival 10K Run
Typical race-day weather
Based on 3 years of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in Port Royal, plus the 3 days either side.
The sun rises at 6:34 AM and sets at 8:04 PM local time (EDT) in Port Royal on May 2, 2026 — 13h 29m of daylight.
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2026 results — Beaufort Water Festival 5k-10K
193 finishers across 2 distances · leading places in the 70th Beaufort Water Festival 5k Run/Walk
| Place | Name | Time | Pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tierney, Josh | 15:44 | 5:04 /mi |
| 2 | Baisch, Greg | 19:39 | 6:20 /mi |
| 3 | Massey, Amber | 19:46 | 6:22 /mi |
| 4 | Hicks IV, Jack | 20:23 | 6:34 /mi |
| 5 | Durham, Stephen | 20:45 | 6:41 /mi |
Every finisher is on the results page, filterable by distance, gender and age group.
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- Port Royal 5K Races 5 races
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Where this page comes from. Race details were last updated on . We re-check listings regularly and again in the week before race day.
- Entries, prices, waves and inclusions — the event's official registration page
- Temperature and humidity — Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
- Elevation and terrain relief — Copernicus DEM GLO-90, ESA (CC BY 4.0)
- Comparisons and counts — Race Discovery calendar, 7 Port Royal events
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