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Ultras · US · NC

Appalachian 200 / 100

200 Miler · 200 miles
Full
Entry has closed for this year. UltraSignup showed Sold out! on every entry on 2026-10-14. The race page says year one is limited to 150 runners in total.
Race dateMarch 10-14, 2027
Duration5 days
Start7:00am
Whenin 137 days
First held2027

Who's going to Appalachian 200 / 100?

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Distance The race
200 miles
Climb The race
40,000 ft
Descent The race
40,000 ft
High point
not checked yet
Time limit The race
110:00:00
Aid stations
20
Started
not checked yet
Finished
not checked yet
Finish rate
not checked yet
The course

Where it goes point to point · 20 aid stations

Course line from the race's own GPX. Source file. Year of this file not known.

Point to point from Jones Gap State Park, SC, through North Carolina and Georgia, finishing in Franklin, NC on the Little Tennessee River Greenway. The first 100 miles are the 100 mile course. It uses the Foothills, Palmetto and Bartram trails.

Rocky, rooty and technical trail for most of the race. No massive 2000 ft climbs until the last 50 miles. Not much flat except the last 12 or so miles, almost entirely paved. No water sources after Pinnacle Knob. Little to no cell service for long stretches. A free race shuttle skips a wilderness study area near Hale Ridge Rd around mile 175, and the clock keeps running.

The race

What this one is

A point to point 200 and 100 mile race from Jones Gap State Park, SC, across the Foothills, Palmetto and Bartram trails. The 100 miler is the first 100 miles of the 200 miler. The 200 passes through South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia and finishes in Franklin, NC.

First edition is 2027. The race was planned about 7 years earlier, then delayed by covid, Hurricane Helene and the Table Rock fire.

Getting in

Getting in Entry, lottery and what the race asks of you before race day.

Lottery
not checked yet
Lottery opens
not checked yet
Lottery draw
not checked yet
Field cap
150 ultrasignup.com
Registration
UltraSignup runbumtours.com
Qualifying
Finish an official 50k race (timed events excluded) within 450 days of the race date; may register first, proof required before race day. docs.google.com
Minimum age
not checked yet
Transfers
not checked yet
Deferrals
not checked yet
Crew access, pacers and drop bags

The rules that shape your day Anything marked "not checked yet" is a gap in what we hold, never a no from the race.

Crew allowed
Yes docs.google.com
Vehicles per runner
not checked yet
Pacers
Yes docs.google.com
Muling
Not allowed docs.google.com
Drop bags
Yes docs.google.com
Cupless
not checked yet
Course marking
not checked yet
Night running
Yes docs.google.com
Dogs
Not allowed docs.google.com
Headphones
not checked yet
Crew rules
Crew only at crew access aid stations, within 1200 ft. No crew or pacer vehicles over 24 ft, no RVs or pull-behind campers. Rule breaks can mean disqualification and a ban from all future Run Bum Races. Hikers and day users have priority over crews at trailheads. Crew access points: Sassafras (shuttle, $25 per person), Camp Wesleyan, Camp Thornwell, Bad Creek, Upper Whitewater Falls (specific hours, parking fee), Sloan Bridge and Fish Hatchery Rd (split between runners), Cherry Hill, Willis Knob, Bob Gap and Warwoman Dell (split between runners), Wilson Gap (high clearance 4x4), Jones Gap. No crew pickup or drop-off at the mid-race Hale Ridge shuttle for the time being. docs.google.com
Pacer rules
One pacer at a time, from about mile 60. Pacers must sign a waiver online, carry all mandatory gear, and have the GPX. They may not mule. Pacers follow the same vehicle rules as crew. Up to 3 people may run along the Little Tennessee River Greenway with a runner. docs.google.com
Drop bag rules
Handbook lists drop bags at Sassafras (23 and 54), Bad Creek (96), Cherry Hill (117), Warwoman (158) and Scaly Mountain (172). Small bags only, labeled with location, name and bib number. Bring them to packet pickup. Bags are brought back to the finish Sunday; held until Monday afternoon, then disposed of or donated. Nothing is mailed. docs.google.com
Cutoff philosophy
All cutoff times are for LEAVING the aid stations, not getting to them. Individual aid station cutoffs are still to come. docs.google.com
Aid stations

Every stop, and what you get there ● yes   ○ no   ? nobody has checked   – does not apply to this race

Mile Station Cutoff Crew access Bag Pacer Med To next
0.00 Start
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ? ? ? 7.26
7.26 Raven Cliff
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ○ ○ ? ? 15.49
22.75 Sassafras
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ● ? ? 14.25
37.00 Camp Wesleyan
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ○ ? ? 11.00
48.00 Camp Thornwell
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ○ ? ? 5.15
53.15 Sassafras
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ● ? ? 12.60
65.75 Cane Brake Rd.
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ○ ○ ? ? 13.75
79.50 Gorges AS
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ○ ○ ? ? 16.14
95.64 Bad Creek
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ● ? ? 4.36
100.00 Upper Whitewater Falls
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ○ ? ? 5.00
105.00 Sloan Bridge Crew
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ○ ? ? 3.00
108.00 Fish Hatchery Rd.
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ○ ? ? 9.50
117.50 Cherry Hill
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ● ? ? 21.70
139.20 Willis Knob
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ○ ? ? 8.15
147.35 Bob Gap
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ○ ? ? 5.55
152.90 Warwoman Dell
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ● ? ? 11.10
164.00 Wilson Gap
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ○ ? ? 8.60
172.60 Hale Ridge Shuttle
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ○ ○ ? ? 0.00
172.60 Scaly Mountain
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ● ? ? 6.25
178.85 Jones Gap
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ● ○ ? ? ?
Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances
100 Miler (100 Mile)
What it looks like out there

Somebody has been out there with a camera the tables say the climb is long. these say what long feels like.

3 people have been out there with a camera or a microphone.

Official channel

Run Bum Tours

Official channel
Social account

runbumraces

Social account
Social account

Run Bum Tours

Social account
All (3) Official channel (1) Social account (2)

These are other people's work and we link straight to them. Watching costs nothing and needs no account. More of them: every race we hold, on film.

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Write it the way you would say it to someone at the start line.

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Copy it as it appears, so we can find it.

The corrected value.

Required. Where it came from: the race email, the runner manual, what you saw on the day.

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Required. A line is plenty. Where the climbs are, what the footing does, what the last twenty miles look like.

Optional, and it decides nothing.

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A YouTube link, a race report, a photo gallery, whatever it is.

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Have the GPX? Send us the link.

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The page or file on the race's own site.

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Are you the race director? Get in touch and we'll make it right.

We read every one of these and we write back. Every fact here carries the source it came from, and the way a wrong one gets fixed is a person checking it against what you tell us.

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Tell us what is wrong, out of date, or missing on this page. We read every one of these and we will get back to you.

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So we know who we are writing back to.

Optional. Director, assistant, comms, whoever you are.

Leave this field blank.

Where this came from. Every fact on this page records its source and when we last checked it: 211 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.
43% of what we track for a course is filled in. The rest says "not checked yet" rather than guessing.
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Were you out there? Say which stops a text got out from
Got footage of this course? Send us the link
Are you the race director? Get in touch and we'll make it right.
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Ultras change. We will tell you when this one does.

Cutoffs move, races get postponed, lotteries open and close. We read the race's own sources and record where every fact came from. Put your email in and we will send you what changed, and where we read it.

No account, and nothing to cancel.

What happens to your email. Nothing else. I do not sell it, and I will not send you anything except this race changing. One click gets you out.

I keep this catalog because the information is scattered and hard to trust. Telling you when it moves is the same job.