Is crew access allowed on the 50 Mile course?

Yes, crew access is allowed on the 50 Mile course. Crew and spectators have access to every aid station except AS 6 (Bidwell). Attempting to drive to Bidwell will result in your racer's disqualification. Park only in trailhead parking areas, never alongside roads.

Are drop bags allowed on the 50 Mile course?

Yes, drop bags are allowed on the 50 Mile course. Drop bags are accepted at the Start Line, AS 2, AS 4 (A and B, same location) and AS 5. None at AS 1, AS 3 or AS 6. Label bags with bib number, last name and aid station number. Stick to a 2 gallon zip bag, no larger than 5 gallon. Bags go back to the finish line after each aid station closes.

Are pacers allowed on the 50 Mile course?

Yes, pacers are allowed on the 50 Mile course. Pacers can only meet their runner at AS 4B or AS 5. Every pacer needs a pacer bib and a signed waiver. A pacer who cannot finish from where they start must at least reach the next aid station to check out with staff. Pacers are not allowed for relay teams.

What is the cutoff time for the 50 Mile course?

The overall time limit for the 50 Mile course is 15 hours 30 minutes from the start. AS 4B and AS 5 are hard cutoffs. The cutoff times are based on a 15:30 finish with a 5:30 AM start.

Laurel Highlands Ultra - Fall Classic 50 Mile 2026

The course

Where it goes point to point · 9 aid stations

No official GPX on file yet. These are the aid station coordinates, not the trail. Have the GPX? Send us the link.

A point to point race on the Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail. It starts at the Rt 30 trailhead near Mile Marker 46, heads south on the trail, and finishes at the Mile 0 trailhead in Ohiopyle. The race counts down the stone mile markers and ends in town at Falls City Pub.

Hunting season is on and the trail is shared with hunters heading elsewhere. Some stretches can be very wet after rain. A few road crossings are on larger, busy roads and most have a volunteer.

The race

What this one is

A 50 mile point to point race on the Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail in Pennsylvania, run from Mile Marker 46 at the Rt 30 trailhead south to Ohiopyle. It benefits the Pennsylvania Parks & Forest Foundation and includes a 5 person relay option.

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: not checked yet

Registration: UltraSignup ultrasignup.com

Qualifying: not checked yet

Minimum age: not checked yet

Transfers: not checked yet

Deferrals: not checked yet

Running, crewing, pacing or still deciding

How NavRun helps with Laurel Highlands Ultra - Fall Classic Two stations with a clock on each.

You are running it

You reach Rt 653 (second visit), mile 32.5, before its 3:35pm cutoff, and you already knew that this morning.

An arrival time for all 7 stations, worked out from your own training.

Start free →

You are pacing

You are at Rt 653 (second visit), mile 32.5, warm and fed, and you know you have 18 miles ahead of you.

The same sheet says when they reach you.

You are deciding

You find out Laurel Highlands Ultra - Fall Classic is months of work away, not years, and you start.

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 docs.google.com

Vehicles per runner: not checked yet

Pacers: Yes docs.google.com

Muling: not checked yet

Drop bags: Yes docs.google.com

Cupless: Yes docs.google.com

Course marking: Fully Marked docs.google.com

Night running: not checked yet

Dogs: not checked yet

Headphones: not checked yet

Crew rules: Crew and spectators have access to every aid station except AS 6 (Bidwell). Attempting to drive to Bidwell will result in your racer's disqualification. Park only in trailhead parking areas, never alongside roads. docs.google.com

Pacer rules: Pacers can only meet their runner at AS 4B or AS 5. Every pacer needs a pacer bib and a signed waiver. A pacer who cannot finish from where they start must at least reach the next aid station to check out with staff. Pacers are not allowed for relay teams. docs.google.com

Drop bag rules: Drop bags are accepted at the Start Line, AS 2, AS 4 (A and B, same location) and AS 5. None at AS 1, AS 3 or AS 6. Label bags with bib number, last name and aid station number. Stick to a 2 gallon zip bag, no larger than 5 gallon. Bags go back to the finish line after each aid station closes. docs.google.com

Cutoff philosophy: AS 4B and AS 5 are hard cutoffs. The cutoff times are based on a 15:30 finish with a 5:30 AM start. 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	Laurel Summit / Rt 30 NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	●	○	?	6.40
6.40	Linn Run NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	○	○	?	6.80
13.20	Hidden Valley / Rt 31 NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	●	○	?	5.50
18.70	Seven Springs NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	○	○	?	7.00
25.70	Rt 653 (first visit) NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	●	○	?	6.80
32.50	Rt 653 (second visit) NoneSignal wrong?	3:35pm	●	●	●	?	7.00
39.50	Maple Summit NoneSignal wrong?	5:45pm	●	●	●	?	5.00
44.50	Bidwell NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	○	?	5.50
50.00	Ohiopyle NoneSignal wrong?	9:00pm	?	●	?	?	?

Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances: 50 Mile Relay

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.

Add to this page

What you know every one of these is read by a person before it changes anything

Ran this race? Tell the next runner what you know.

Nobody sees it until we have read it. No account, no sign-in.

Which distance? Leave blank if it applies to the whole race.

Which stop? Leave blank if it is not about one particular stop.

Give it a short title: Optional. Something like “Cal Street, mile 62 to 78”.

What do you wish someone had told you? Write it the way you would say it to someone at the start line.

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

What year? Optional.

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

Website: Leave this field blank.

See something wrong or out of date? Suggest an edit.

This changes nothing on the page on its own. Somebody checks it against the race first.

Which detail? Optional. Filled in for you when you start from a specific line on the page.

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.

Which stop? Leave blank if it is not about one particular stop.

Website: Leave this field blank.

Were you out there? Say which stops a text got out from.

Nobody sees it until we have read it. No account, no sign-in.

What year? Were you there?

Optional, and it decides nothing.

Your phone company:

Which stops did a text get out from?

Leave a stop blank if you did not try, or do not remember.

Your email:

Optional. Never shown.

Seen a course preview or a film of this one? Send it over.

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.

Laurel Highlands Ultra - Fall Classic

Who's going to Laurel Highlands Ultra - Fall Classic?

Where it goes point to point · 9 aid stations

What this one is

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

How NavRun helps with Laurel Highlands Ultra - Fall Classic Two stations with a clock on each.

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

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

Other distances and other years

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

What you know every one of these is read by a person before it changes anything

Which stops did a text get out from?

Ultras change. We will tell you when this one does.