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Run as laps of the same 10K loop through Newton Hills State Park, starting and finishing at the picnic shelter where the aid station is. The loop climbs three big hills and ends with a two mile lollipop on foot-only trails.
A trail race on dirt and gravel with sticks, rocks, tree roots, and sometimes dust, mud and horse manure. The loop shares its first four miles with horse trails.
Glacier Hills Ultra is a grassroots trail race at Newton Hills State Park near Canton, South Dakota, on bluffs above the Big Sioux River. Runners choose a 20K, 30K or 50K, all run as laps of the same 10K loop, and the aid station at the start and finish is passed every lap. The directors' aim is that every runner finds a welcoming community and leaves feeling empowered no matter the distance they covered.
The race began in 2015 as the Newton Hills Ultra, the first ultra established in southeast South Dakota. Its founder handed it to three race directors who stepped back after 2023, and a group of friends who like to spend all day playing in the woods took it over.
2 people have been out there with a camera or a microphone.
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This changes nothing on the page on its own. Somebody checks it against the race first.
Somebody watches it before it goes anywhere near this page. What we are after is footage of this course, on the ground. If it would be just as true of any other race, it is not this.
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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.
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I keep this catalog because the information is scattered and hard to trust. Telling you when it moves is the same job.
