Starts and finishes at Silver Hill Meadow. Roughly 68 miles of rolling dirt roads, 30 miles of horse trails, and 2 miles of pavement, run concurrently with the Vermont 100 Endurance Ride (horses). Not a simple single loop: runners pass through the Camp 10 Bear aid station twice (mile 47.1 and mile 69.2), so the route is better described as a stem (Silver Hill to Camp 10 Bear, ~47 mi), a middle loop back to Camp 10 Bear (~22 mi), and a closing loop back to Silver Hill Meadow (~31 mi) -- a runner's own account calls it a "cloverleaf course composed of three loops." No course maps are published; the race crosses over 30 pieces of private land on permission granted only for race weekend.
"Gravel / Trail / Jeep road / Paved" composition is published as "68.5% / 29% / 2.5%" for the 100-mile -- note the source lists four category labels but only three percentages, an unresolved inconsistency in the source itself. Course composition in plain distance terms: ~68 mi rolling dirt roads, ~30 mi horse trails, ~2 mi pavement. Course elevation profile: no single long climb, described as "unrelenting rollers."
A 100-mile and 100-kilometer trail and dirt-road ultramarathon at Silver Hill Meadow in West Windsor, Vermont, run concurrently with a 100-mile endurance horse ride on the same course -- the only remaining U.S. 100-mile race to do so. Roughly 17,000 ft of climbing on rolling dirt roads and horse trails, no single long climb. Part of the Grand Slam of Ultrarunning. All race proceeds benefit Vermont Adaptive Ski & Sports, the race's founding nonprofit beneficiary.
Began in the late 1960s as a horse endurance ride; became a competitive horse race in the late 1970s, starting/finishing at Cloudland Farm in Woodstock, VT (near today's Pretty House aid station, ~mile 21). The ride lapsed in the late 1980s. Laura Farrell founded Vermont Adaptive Ski & Sports in 1987. Steve and Dinah Rojek of Smoke Rise Farm re-established the ride in 1988, and in 1989 Farrell -- already the first woman to complete both a 100-mile ride and a 100-mile run (1982) -- joined Steve Rojek in adding a running race alongside it: 114 runners started the first VT100 run. The race outgrew Smoke Rise Farm and moved to its current home, Silver Hill Meadow in West Windsor, VT, in 2004. A 100-kilometer running event was added in 2008. In 2017 VT100 became the first trail ultra to formally recognize visually- and mobility-impaired runners in their own Athletes With Disabilities (AWD) award category; a neurodiverse AWD category (autism, TBI, PTSD, and related conditions) was added in 2025. Race directors: Laura Farrell, then Jim Hutchinson, then his daughter Julia Hutchinson, then current RD Amy Rusiecki. It is one of the original U.S. 100-milers and part of the Grand Slam of Ultrarunning (with Western States 100, Leadville Trail 100, and Wasatch Front 100).
| Mile | Station | Cutoff | Crew | Bag | Pacer | Med | To next |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.00 | Silver Hill Meadow | ? | ● | ? | ? | ? | 7.30 |
| 7.30 | Densmore Hill | 6:15am | · | · | ? | ? | 4.50 |
| 11.80 | Dunham Hill | 7:35am | · | · | ? | ? | 3.40 |
| 15.20 | Taftsville Bridge | 8:35am | · | · | ? | ? | 2.00 |
| 17.20 | So. Pomfret | 9:10am | · | · | ? | ? | 3.90 |
| 21.10 | Pretty House | 10:20am | ● | ● | ? | ? | 3.90 |
| 25.00 | U-Turn | 11:30am | · | · | ? | ? | 5.70 |
| 30.70 | Stage Rd | 1:15pm | · | · | ? | ? | 3.20 |
| 33.90 | Route 12 | 2:10pm | · | · | ? | ? | 5.00 |
| 38.90 | Lincoln Covered Bridge | 3:40pm | ● | ● | ? | ? | 2.10 |
| 41.00 | Barr House | 4:20pm | · | · | ? | ? | 2.50 |
| 43.50 | Lillians | 5:05pm | · | · | ? | ? | 3.60 |
| 47.10 | Camp 10 Bear | 6:10pm | ● | ● | ? | ● | 3.10 |
| 50.20 | Pinky's | 7:05pm | · | · | ? | ? | 3.50 |
| 53.70 | Birminghams | 8:10pm | · | · | ? | ? | 4.60 |
| 58.30 | Margaritaville | 9:30pm | ● | ● | ● | ? | 3.20 |
| 61.50 | Puckerbrush | 10:30pm | · | · | ? | ? | 3.00 |
| 64.50 | Brown School House | 11:25pm | · | · | ? | ? | 4.70 |
| 69.20 | Camp 10 Bear | 12:45am | ● | ● | ● | ● | 4.40 |
| 73.60 | Seabrook | 2:05am | · | · | ? | ? | 2.50 |
| 76.10 | Spirit of 76 | 2:50am | ● | ● | ● | ? | 3.90 |
| 80.00 | Goodman's | 4:00am | · | · | ? | ? | 3.00 |
| 83.00 | Cow Shed | 4:55am | · | · | ? | ? | 5.10 |
| 88.10 | Bill's | 6:25am | ● | ● | ● | ● | 2.90 |
| 91.00 | Coon Club | 7:20am | · | · | ? | ? | 3.50 |
| 94.50 | Polly's | 8:25am | ● | ● | ● | ? | 5.50 |
| 100.00 | FINISH LINE | 10:00am | ● | · | ? | ● | ? |
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