Are drop bags allowed on the 50K course?

Yes, drop bags are allowed on the 50K course. There is a drop bag station at mile 18.6, at the start/finish area. 50K runners may also use the sweat check area for drop bags.

What is the cutoff time for the 50K course?

The overall time limit for the 50K course is 9 hours from the start. The 50K has a 9-hour cutoff time. No early starts, and no starts after 6:45 AM.

Ultras · US · CA

Paiute Meadows Trail Run

50K · 31.7 miles

On the calendar

The date is set. Entry has not opened. Registration opens November 25, 2026.

Race dateMay 8, 2027

Start6:30am

Whenin 196 days

First held1995

Who's going to Paiute Meadows Trail Run?

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 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

31.7 miles

Climb The race

3,959 ft

Descent The race

3,959 ft

High point The race

4,934 ft

Time limit The race

9:00:00

Aid stations

Started

not checked yet

Finished

not checked yet

Finish rate

not checked yet

The course

Where it goes multi-loop · 13 aid stations

A looped course of mostly singletrack. The first loop is the 30K course and comes back through the start/finish area, then runners head down to Old Paul Bunyan Logging Road for a second climb up to the helipad and back, and finish on the half marathon route, including a second climb up Heart Attack Hill. Drop bags are available at the start/finish area.

Technicality ranges from smooth surface, to grassy underlayment, to narrow, uneven, rocky and/or loose surface. During wet years, the water crossings are between miles 5 and 8.

The race

What this one is

A trail run in Susanville Ranch Park in Susanville, California, benefiting Lassen Land and Trails Trust. The 4.5-mile course is the cornerstone, and the 50K, 30K and half marathon run on single-track trails with views across the region's trail system. Aid stations are fully stocked, the race is cupless, and there is a finish line party with a free locally brewed beer.

The run started in 1995 as a fall run with a kids' mile, a roughly two-mile race and a 4-ish mile race. It moved to spring in 1998. In 2015 the Bizz Running Company took over as race director, dropped the two-mile event, kept the 4.5-mile distance, and added the 50K and half marathon. A new looped 50K course started in 2026.

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: RunSignUp runsignup.com

Qualifying: not checked yet

Minimum age: not checked yet

Transfers: Yes bizzrunningcompany.com

Deferrals: not checked yet

Running, crewing, pacing or still deciding

How NavRun helps with Paiute Meadows Trail Run Nine hours, and two stations with a clock on each.

You are running it

You reach Start/Finish Area, mile 18.6, before its 11:46am cutoff, and you already knew that this morning.

An arrival time for all 12 stations, worked out from your own training.

Start free →

You are deciding

You find out Paiute Meadows Trail Run 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: not checked yet

Vehicles per runner: not checked yet

Pacers: not checked yet

Muling: not checked yet

Drop bags: Yes bizzrunningcompany.com

Cupless: Yes bizzrunningcompany.com

Course marking: not checked yet

Night running: not checked yet

Dogs: not checked yet

Headphones: not checked yet

Crew rules: not checked yet

Pacer rules: not checked yet

Drop bag rules: There is a drop bag station at mile 18.6, at the start/finish area. 50K runners may also use the sweat check area for drop bags. bizzrunningcompany.com

Cutoff philosophy: The 50K has a 9-hour cutoff time. No early starts, and no starts after 6:45 AM. bizzrunningcompany.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
7.60	Baja Way NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	2.60
10.20	Beaver Pond NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	3.20
13.40	Stonewall NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	1.40
14.80	Upper Paiute Lane (out) NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	1.50
16.30	Heart Attack Landing NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	1.50
17.80	Upper Paiute Lane (in) NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	0.80
18.60	Start/Finish Area NoneSignal wrong?	11:46am	?	●	?	?	4.60
23.20	Beaver Pond (loop 2) NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	3.30
26.50	Stonewall (loop 2) NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	1.40
27.90	Upper Paiute Lane (loop 2 out) NoneSignal wrong?	2:24pm	?	?	?	?	1.50
29.40	Heart Attack Landing (loop 2) NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	1.50
30.90	Upper Paiute Lane (loop 2 in) NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	0.80
31.70	Finish NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances: 30K (18.6 miles)
1/2 Marathon (13.7 miles)
4.5 Miler (4.5 miles)

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.

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

Social account

paiutemeadowstrailrun

Social account

Paiute Meadows Trail Run

Social account

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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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.

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

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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: 81 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.

33% of what we track for a course is filled in. The rest says "not checked yet" rather than guessing.

See something wrong or out of date? Suggest an edit
Ran this race? Tell the next runner what you know
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.
Anything else: [email protected]

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.