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Run The Ridge Trail Race

Beaver Dam, Kentucky, United States View on map
Oct 10, 2026 (America/Chicago local time)
Trail running

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.

Oct 10, 2026 5K 8:00 AM
$25.00
Open

Trail running

Run The Ridge Trail 10K

This event will be two complete loops of the Jerusalem Ridge Trail.

Oct 10, 2026 10K 8:00 AM
$35.00
Open

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.

Oct 10, 2026 25K 8:00 AM
$50.00
Open

Typical race-day weather

Based on 5 years of historical conditions on this event's race dates in Beaver Dam.

Temp (°C)
Minimum temperature (race-day average) 11.3° / Maximum temperature (race-day average) 23.7°
Feels Like (°C)
Minimum feels like — heat index / wind chill (race-day average) 11.3° / Maximum feels like — heat index / wind chill (race-day average) 23.7°
Wind (km/h)
Average wind speed (race-day average)
13.6
Precip (mm)
Average precipitation (race-day average)
0.7mm
Humidity
Average relative humidity (race-day average)
66.4%

Course

Route map and elevation profile

No course map published yet.

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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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