Ultra Fest
25K · 15.5 miles
Ran · this year's race is done.
Race dateSeptember 19-20, 2026
Duration2 days
Start9:00am
When35 days ago
Who's going to Ultra Fest?
Free. You can start with nothing.
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
The race
15.5 miles
High point
not checked yet
Time limit
The race
6:00:00
Finish rate
not checked yet
The course
Where it goes
out and back · 3 aid stations · rust marks a stop your crew can reach
25K runners head east 7.75 miles, turning around before Cle Elum and return to Easton to finish.
Smooth, wide crushed-gravel rail trail with minimal elevation change. The 25K does not use the tunnel section.
The race
What this one is
Ultra Fest is a flat, fast ultramarathon on the Palouse to Cascades rail trail, starting and finishing at the Easton Fire Station near Snoqualmie Pass. It offers a 25K, 50K, 50 mile, 100K and 100 mile, all out-and-backs on smooth crushed gravel along Lake Easton, the Yakima River and Keechelus Lake.
Through 2023 the race was called The Cascade Super Ultra.
Getting in
Getting in
Entry, lottery and what the race asks of you before race day.
- Lottery
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not checked yet
- Lottery opens
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not checked yet
- Lottery draw
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- Field cap
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not checked yet
- Registration
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UltraSignup
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- Qualifying
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not checked yet
- Minimum age
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not checked yet
- Transfers
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No
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- Deferrals
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No
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Running, crewing, pacing or still deciding
How NavRun helps with Ultra Fest
Six hours.
You are running it
You reach Golf Course Rd, mile 6.4, and you already knew this morning what time that would be.
An arrival time for all 2 stations, worked out from your own training.
Start free →
You are deciding
You find out Ultra Fest 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
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Yes
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- Vehicles per runner
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not checked yet
- Pacers
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No
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- Muling
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not checked yet
- Drop bags
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not checked yet
- Cupless
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Yes
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- Course marking
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Fully Marked
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- Night running
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not checked yet
- Dogs
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Not allowed
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- Headphones
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not checked yet
- Crew rules
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Crews may access designated stations only: Stampede, Hyak, Easton and South Cle Elum. Do not crew runners at Golf Course Road: unauthorized support at non-designated locations may result in runner disqualification. Leashed dogs may be with crew at crew-accessible aid stations only.
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- Pacer rules
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not checked yet
- Drop bag rules
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not checked yet
- Cutoff philosophy
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not checked yet
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 |
| 6.40 |
Golf Course Rd
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○ |
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2.70 |
| 9.10 |
Golf Course Rd
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6.40 |
| 15.50 |
Easton
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3:00pm |
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Driving your crew
Getting your people there
1 stop with directions the race published.
Easton
mile 15.50
cutoff 3:00pm
I-90 Exit 71. Park in the designated race parking area and walk approximately 400 yards to the fire station/start-finish.
Parking. Park in the designated race parking area.
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Same race, other lines
Other distances and other years
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.
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.
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.
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.
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: 58 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.
35% of what we track for a course is filled in. The rest says "not checked yet" rather than guessing.
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.
