Coon Dog Day 5k
About this race
Coon Dog Day 2026 will be held in Saluda, NC on July 11th and the 5K will be better than ever!
PACKET PICKUP, Friday July 10: 🌭Free hotdog at packet pickup! Please pick up your race bib and t-shirt at the Saluda Inn on Friday night at 229 Greenville St., Saluda, 5-8 pm. Follow the packet pick-up signs.
SATURDAY MORNING, July 11: Race Day Checkin will be at Looking Glass Realty at 108 East Main. St, beside the post office.
The start/finish line is on Main Street. Note: All registration will be online through the runsignup.com page. No paper forms for late/ walkup registration, so bring a phone. You can register until the race starts with a phone.
PARKING- 5K parking is available only until 9:30am at the First Baptist Church, the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration and Saluda United Methodist Church for the race only. If you want to stay for Coon Dog Day, please move your car out of those lots by 9:30am (the shuttle will bring you from the festival parking lot at that time). Parking is also available at the Saluda Elementary School back (bus) Parking Lot on Seminary Street (short walk to start line on Main Street) and there's no rush to leave the school lot.
The Coon Dog Day 5K is hosted by and raises funds for the Polk County High School Cadets marching band. The run begins in McCreery Park beside Main Street at 8am and follows the traditional Coon Dog Day 5k route.
If you'd like to guarantee a t-shirt, be sure to register by June 15th!
The Coon Dog Day 5K includes chip timing for all participants. Awards are given by age groups.
The KIDS' Fun Run with clock timing and a new route for the kids is back.
Plan to stay for the daylong festival of crafts, food, music and quirky small town fun.
We sure do appreciate our 2025 Sponsors. We couldn't do this without our:
Top Dogs- Sandy Bee Mine Honey Company, Looking Glass Realty and Upland Orchard
Big Dogs- Don Mintz Builders. Saluda Outfitters, Mountain Sky Builders, Stepp Ditching, Adventure Cycles, Solstice Construction, Wakey Monkey, the Orchard Inn and the Saluda Inn.
Porch Pups- Jim Carson Gallery/Studio, Carolina Cottage Guest House and Kevin Burnett
We hope you can join us as a sponsor and/or runner at the 2026 Coon Dog Day 5K!
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Running
Coon Dog Day 5K
Coon Puppies' Fun Run
The start and finish will be the same as the 5K. Kids will run up Carolina, down Henderson to Cullipher, and back to Main Street for a 1/2 mile loop. Parents are welcome to join the kids, but only kids will receive a T-shirt while supplies last.
Typical race-day weather
Based on 5 years of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in Saluda, plus the 3 days either side.
The sun rises at 6:23 AM and sets at 8:46 PM local time (EDT) in Saluda on July 11, 2026 — 14h 22m of daylight.
Course
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2026 results — Coon Dog Day 5k
Coon Dog Day 5K · 340 finishers
| Place | Name | Time | Pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Logan Totten-Lancaster | 17:37 | 5:40 /mi |
| 2 | Jay Upchurch | 17:51 | 5:45 /mi |
| 3 | Colson Totten-Lancaster | 18:10 | 5:51 /mi |
| 4 | Rowan Crowley | 18:17 | 5:53 /mi |
| 5 | Tyler Ballenger | 18:50 | 6:04 /mi |
Every finisher is on the results page, filterable by distance, gender and age group.
All results by year
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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, 1 Saluda event
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