Run The Ridge Trail Race
About this race
The Run The Ridge 5K, 10K, and 25K Trail Run is a culturally and historically significant event as runners will be traveling some of the same dirt roads and beautiful overlooks that Father of Bluegrass Music, Bill Monroe, and his beloved Uncle Pen did. This will be a fun but challenging event with steep inclines and declines to navigate going up to the top of the Ridge and coming back down. The scenic course winds “high in the hills of ‘ol Kentucky,” as Monroe put it. The race will start and finish at the celebrated Bill Monroe Homeplace and will feature plenty of great bluegrass music, including live bluegrass on the course.
Run the Ridge coincides with two other Bill Monroe Foundation events, “Pickin’ on the Porch” and “Camping and Jamming.” A live bluegrass band will perform free-of-charge Saturday evening on the Homeplace porch. Runners are encouraged to stay and enjoy the show. Dinner at 5:00, music at 6:00. Bluegrass pickers and enthusiasts will be camping throughout the weekend. Jam sessions typically occur around campfires. Runners are encouraged to pull up a chair and jam or just sit back listen. . For runners, primitive camping is free, $10 with electricity. It all makes for a beautiful, autumn weekend on Jerusalem Ridge.
Register by September 25, 2026, and receive a special race t-shirt.
Registration
5K is $25
10K is $35
25K is $55
(*** There is a four hours and 30 minutes cutoff)
Awards
All finishers will receive a special finishers medal to celebrate their accomplishment.
Awards will also be given to the Top 3 Male & Female Finishers in both the 5K, 10K and, 25K Distances.
Pick your distance
Running
Run The Ridge Trail 5K
This event will be one complete loop of the Jerusalem Ridge Trail.
Trail running
Run The Ridge Trail 10K
This event will be two complete loops of the Jerusalem Ridge Trail.
Run The Ridge Trail 25K
This event will be five complete loops of the Jerusalem Ridge Trail. A runners aid station will be available at the start-finish line. ****The race cutoff is 4 hours and 30 minutes.
Typical race-day weather
Based on 5 years of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in Beaver Dam, plus the 3 days either side.
The sun rises at 6:51 AM and sets at 6:17 PM local time (CDT) in Beaver Dam on October 10, 2026 — 11h 26m of daylight.
Course
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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 Beaver Dam event
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