Dark Divide Trail Races

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Wonderland Running is thrilled, honored, and humbled to announce the 2023 Dark Divide Trail Races! The Dark Divide 100 Miler will take place Friday, August 4 and Saturday, August 5, starting and finishing at the Cispus Learning Center. On Sunday, August 6, we will be holding the Dark Divide 50k and 15 Mile Fun Run, also starting and finishing at the Cispus Learning Center. These races take place in the one of the most wild and beautiful places you will ever race… the vast, rugged, and remote 80,000 acre Dark Divide Roadless Area. Expect to run one of the hardest races you will ever run as you travel on steep technical trails with very long stretches in between aid stations. Also expect to run in one of the most stunningly beautiful places you will ever run.

The Dark Divide Trail Races will take you to seldom-traveled places that are unspeakably beautiful, soul-stirringly remote, and uncommonly rugged, in the heart of the Central Washington Cascades. Located in the center of Gifford-Pinchot National Forest, the Dark Divide is a land of deep, solitary valleys filled with centuries-old trees; stunning, serrated sub-alpine ridges that are painted by wildflowers and punctuated by peaks; wild streams tumbling unfettered over waterfalls into sparkling pools; viewscapes that feel like you can touch Pahto (Mount Adams), Tahoma (Mount Rainier), and Loowit (Mount Saint Helens) with your fingers… and a treasure of glimpses into the world as it once was.