Wildwood Trail Marathon

Description:

2025 Edition of the Wildwood Trail Marathons is hosted by Terrain Trail Runners and will offer both the 1/2 Marathon and Marathon Distances

Wildwood Trail Marathons are a great wrap up to any runners racing season whether you run road or trail, novice or experienced the course will not disappoint. There will be miles and miles of great running through some of the beautiful trails in West County, St. Louis, Mo.

MARATHON COURSE DESCRIPTION

The Wildwood Trail Marathon starts on the asphalt Hamilton-Carr Trail which takes runners to the chat surfaced Al Foster Memorial Trail. The Al Foster Memorial Trail will take marathoners to the Bluff View Trail, where they will climb to the bluff that gives the trail its name!
After leaving the first aid station on the course, runners will proceed back down the Bluff View Trail and spend a number of gorgeous miles doing the entire Rock Hollow Trail. Racers will then leave the Rock Hollow Trail and run the entire length of the Al Foster Memorial Trail to the Sherman Beach Trailhead. From Sherman Beach, runners will take a connector trail to the Cedar Bluff Trail and return to Sherman Beach on the Stinging Nettle Trail. Once reaching Sherman Beach for the last time, competitors will travel on the Al Foster Memorial Trail and Hamilton-Carr Trail to the finish of the Marathon at LaSalle Spring Middle School.

The course is a combination of approximately 2 miles of paved greenway trail, gravel, dirt and 90 percent single track with enough rocks and roots to keep you present with approximate ELEVATION GAIN of 1700ft!

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A TRAIL MARATHON AND NOT YOUR ROAD 26.2 SO YOU WILL BE RUNNING 26.2-ISH MILES.
No Wimps, No Whining!

Visit race website for Course Map.

1/2 MARATHON COURSE DESCRIPTION

The Wildwood Trail 1/2 Marathon starts on the asphalt Hamilton-Carr Trail which takes runners to the chat surfaced Al Foster Memorial Trail. The Al Foster Memorial Trail will take marathoners to the Rock Hollow Connector, where they will spend a number of gorgeous miles running Rock Hollow West and East Trails (running the entire length of Rock Hollow Trail). Racers will then leave the Rock Hollow Trail and run the entire length of the Al Foster Memorial Trail to the Sherman Beach Trailhead. Upon checking in with the aid station at Sherman Beach, competitors will travel on the Al Foster Memorial Trail and Hamilton-Carr Trail to the finish of the 1/2 Marathon at LaSalle Spring Middle School.

The course is a combination of approximately 2 miles of paved greenway trail, gravel, dirt and 90 percent single track with enough rocks and roots to keep you present with approximate ELEVATION GAIN of 750ft!

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A TRAIL 1/2 MARATHON AND NOT YOUR ROAD 13.1 SO YOU WILL BE RUNNING 13.1-ISH MILES.
No Wimps, No Whining!

Visit race website for Course Map.