Is crew access allowed on the Hawk Hundred - Marathon course?

Yes, crew access is allowed on the Hawk Hundred - Marathon course. Crews may meet runners at Start/Finish HQ (free Army Corps of Engineers entrance, gate locked 10 PM–6 AM) and at the West Park Road aid station (inside the fee area of the state park: $5/vehicle day pass or $25 annual permit required to drive in). Lands End is not a crew-access station even though it is reachable by vehicle via Campground 1.

Are drop bags allowed on the Hawk Hundred - Marathon course?

Yes, drop bags are allowed on the Hawk Hundred - Marathon course. All three aid stations accept drop bags. Bags must be dropped 15 minutes before the runner's own scheduled start time; keep bags a reasonable size, marked with name/bib/distance/station. Bags are returned to Start/Finish HQ by 12 pm Sunday; unclaimed items are donated.

Are pacers allowed on the Hawk Hundred - Marathon course?

No, pacers are not allowed on the Hawk Hundred - Marathon course.

What is the cutoff time for the Hawk Hundred - Marathon course?

The overall time limit for the Hawk Hundred - Marathon course is 30 hours from the start. Only the shared finish-line cutoff applies: Sunday 2 PM, 30 hours after the marathon's 8 AM start. No intermediate aid-station cutoffs are published for the marathon distance; the Sunday 10 AM / noon cutoffs are stated by the race as applying to the 100 and 50-mile races only.

Ultras · US · KS

Hawk Hundred

16th Annual Hawk Hundred

Hawk Hundred - Marathon · Marathon

Registration open

Registration open as of research date (Aug 2026), closing Fri Sep 4, 2026 11:59 PM CT per UltraSignup. hawkhundred.com's own footer and Travel page independently display "September 6-7, 2026" (a Sunday-Monday pairing that does not match the site's own "Saturday RACE DAY!" framing) while the homepage hero, Calendar page body, UltraSignup registration page and the Trail Hawks club race page all independently agree on Saturday-Sunday September 12-13, 2026.

Race dateSeptember 12-13, 2026

Duration2 days

Start8:00am

When34 days ago

First held2011

Who's going to Hawk Hundred?

I'm running itPlan your weeks and your aid station times I'm crewingWhen to leave, where to park, at every stop I'm pacing or cheeringAsk your runner for their Out Here link

Free. You can start with nothing.

Official website Entry Aid stations Crew access Notify me if this race changes

Free, and always will be. NavRun makes money from race-day planning for runners who want it, never from this. Ultras change constantly, sometimes the morning of. Always confirm with the race director and the official website before you rely on anything here.

Distance Marathon

Climb 1,171 ft

Descent 1,142 ft

High point not checked yet

Time limit 30:00:00

Aid stations 6

Started not checked yet

Finished not checked yet

Finish rate not checked yet

The course

Where it goes lollipop · 6 aid stations · rust marks a stop your crew can reach

Course line from the race's own GPX. Source file.

Multi-loop trail race on the Clinton Lake North Shore Trails: a 25-mile lap (blue, red and white blazed singletrack, plus the grass Bunker Hill/Goodwin Loop off West Park Road) repeated from a single Start/Finish.

The published course GPX covers only the 25-mile loop and does not include this 1.2-mile stem.

The race

What this one is

A multi-loop trail race at Clinton Lake State Park in Lawrence, Kansas, presented by the Lawrence Trail Hawks. Offers 100-mile, 50-mile and marathon distances, all run on repeats of the same 25-mile North Shore Trails loop from one Start/Finish.

Run annually since 2011; the 2026 edition is the race's 16th running. A 75-mile option offered in at least 2025 is not offered in 2026 (2026 UltraSignup and club pages list only 100 Mile, 50 Mile and Marathon).

Getting in

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

Lottery: No ultrasignup.com

Lottery opens: not checked yet

Lottery draw: not checked yet

Field cap: not checked yet

Registration: UltraSignup ultrasignup.com

Qualifying: not checked yet

Minimum age: not checked yet

Transfers: No hawkhundred.com

Deferrals: Yes ultrasignup.com

Running, crewing, pacing or still deciding

How NavRun helps with Hawk Hundred Thirty hours.

You are running it

You reach West Park Road, mile 14.2, and you already knew this morning what time that would be.

An arrival time for all 4 stations, worked out from your own training.

Start free →

You are crewing it

You park at West Park Road, and you are standing there when they come in.

One link from your runner, with the stop and the window they arrive in.

You are deciding

You find out Hawk Hundred is months of work away, not years, and you enter.

Put in a race you have already run. NavRun shows you where this one sits from where you are.

No account needed →

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 trailhawks.com

Vehicles per runner: not checked yet

Pacers: No trailhawks.com

Muling: Not allowed trailhawks.com

Drop bags: Yes hawkhundred.com

Cupless: not checked yet

Course marking: Fully Marked trailhawks.com

Night running: Yes trailhawks.com

Dogs: Allowed trailhawks.com

Headphones: Not allowed trailhawks.com

Crew rules: Crews may meet runners at Start/Finish HQ (free Army Corps of Engineers entrance, gate locked 10 PM–6 AM) and at the West Park Road aid station (inside the fee area of the state park: $5/vehicle day pass or $25 annual permit required to drive in). Lands End is not a crew-access station even though it is reachable by vehicle via Campground 1. trailhawks.com

Pacer rules: not checked yet

Drop bag rules: All three aid stations accept drop bags. Bags must be dropped 15 minutes before the runner's own scheduled start time; keep bags a reasonable size, marked with name/bib/distance/station. Bags are returned to Start/Finish HQ by 12 pm Sunday; unclaimed items are donated. trailhawks.com

Cutoff philosophy: Only the shared finish-line cutoff applies: Sunday 2 PM, 30 hours after the marathon's 8 AM start. No intermediate aid-station cutoffs are published for the marathon distance; the Sunday 10 AM / noon cutoffs are stated by the race as applying to the 100 and 50-mile races only. hawkhundred.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/Finish HQ 989 ft	?	●	●	●	?	5.70
5.70	Lands End 978 ft	?	○	●	○	?	6.00
11.70	West Park Road 955 ft	?	●	●	●	?	2.50
14.20	West Park Road 955 ft	?	●	●	●	?	5.50
19.70	Lands End 978 ft	?	○	●	○	?	6.50
26.20	Start/Finish HQ 989 ft	2:00pm	●	●	●	?	?

Driving your crew

Getting your people there 2 stops with directions the race published.

West Park Road mile 11.70

West Park Road ... this trailhead is located on the western edge of Campground 3, about 11.5 miles out on White. Parking is available at the nearby restroom facility in the campground. The second road you'll come to (N. 1415 Rd, or West Park Rd.) leads to the state park ... Entry to this portion costs $5 per vehicle per day; annual permits ... cost ... $25 bought separately.

Parking. Parking available at the restroom facility in Campground 3, near the aid station.

trailhawks.com

West Park Road mile 14.20

Parking. Parking available at the restroom facility in Campground 3, near the aid station.

trailhawks.com

Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances: Hawk Hundred - 100 Mile (100 Mile)
Hawk Hundred - 50 Mile (50 Mile)
Marathon (24.54 miles)
100 Miler Pacer

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.

Nobody has been out there with a camera or a microphone yet. A gap means nobody has found it, not that it is not out there. Seen a course preview or a film of this one? Send us the link.

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Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing. It only tells the next runner where this is coming from.

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What does the page say now? Copy it as it appears, so we can find it.

What should it say? The corrected value.

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

A link that shows it: Optional.

Or a photo of it: Optional. A screenshot or a photo of the sign works.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, only so we can come back to you about this correction.

Which distance? Leave blank if it is about the whole race.

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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.

What does it show that the page cannot? Required. A line is plenty. Where the climbs are, what the footing does, what the last twenty miles look like.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, and never shown on the page. Only so we can ask you a question about this one.

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

What kind of thing is it?

Who made it? Optional, and we credit them on the page.

Website: Leave this field blank.

Have the GPX? Send us the link.

We want the address of the file the race publishes, not the file. We download it from there so the page can say where the line came from.

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.

Where this came from. Every fact on this page records its source and when we last checked it: 128 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.

47% of what we track for a course is filled in. The rest says "not checked yet" rather than guessing.

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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.