A 25K (about 15.5 mile) loop starting and finishing at the Grayson Highlands Visitor Center, the shortest ultra-adjacent distance offered at this race weekend (a non-ultra 8 Mile is also offered but is out of scope for this fill; see _meta.notes). Handbook FAQ ranks it 'Beginner Friendly.' Runs on the same park trail system and highland balds as the 50K and 50 Mile, though the exposure warning in the runners handbook is framed as hitting 'especially the ultras' hardest.
ATRA: '100% on un-paved trails,' 'more single track than you can imagine.' The aid-station chart and GPX currently published for this distance are dated/labeled as the 2027 (not 2026) course and were deliberately excluded from this fill; see _meta.notes for the full reasoning. Only the Start and Finish, both at the Visitor Center and unaffected by any mid-course change, are recorded below.
A 50 Mile, 50K and 25K trail race sharing one start/finish at the Grayson Highlands State Park Visitor Center in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia, crossing the open, treeless highland balds where a managed herd of wild ponies roams. The course runs over Little Pinnacle / Haw Orchard Mountain at 5,089 feet, described by the American Trail Running Association as the highest race in Virginia, with views of Mount Rogers, the state's highest point.
Run Bum Tours' own registration page calls the 2027 edition the '13th annual Grayson Highlands trail races,' implying a 2015 first year, corroborated by ultrasignup.com's own results archive for this event listing back to 2015. The American Trail Running Association's event page separately states a first year of 2018, a conflict recorded here rather than resolved (see _meta.notes). The 50K-specific results on UltraSignup go back to 2016 and the 50 Mile distance's results only as far as 2020, consistent with the event having grown its distance lineup over time, though no source states this directly.
| Mile | Station | Cutoff | Crew | Bag | Pacer | Med | To next |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.00 | Grayson Highlands Visitor Center | ? | ● | ? | ? | ? | 15.53 |
| 15.53 | Grayson Highlands Visitor Center | ? | ● | ? | ? | ? | ? |
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