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Ultras · US · NJ

Wild Goose Trail Festival

100 Miler · 100.25 miles
Registration open
Registration is open on RunSignup. The festival moves back to Wawayanda State Park in 2027.
Race dateSeptember 18-19, 2027
Duration2 days
Start7:00am
Whenin 337 days

Who's going to Wild Goose Trail Festival?

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

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Distance 100.25 miles
Climb 11,275 ft
Descent 11,239 ft
High point not checked yet
Time limit 36:00:00
Aid stations 0
Started not checked yet
Finished not checked yet
Finish rate not checked yet
The course

Where it goes multi-loop

Starts with the Pink Loop, then five rounds of Checkered, Blue and Pink. The course stays open 36 hours and the aid station is open the whole time.

The race

What this one is

A trail festival in northern New Jersey run by Sassquad Trail Running. It offers a one-mile kids run, a 10K, a half marathon, a 30K, a 50K, a 50 miler, a 100K, a 100 miler and a 36-hour timed event, all on the same three loops. The 100 miler, 100K and 50 miler each get 36 hours, and the 100 miler has a single cutoff. A film screening and panels open the weekend on Friday, and camping is free.

The name comes from one possible meaning of Wawayanda, "the way of the wild goose". Wawayanda State Park could not host the 2026 festival, so it ran at Ringwood State Park. The 2027 festival returns to Wawayanda.

Getting in

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

Lottery
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Lottery opens
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Lottery draw
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Field cap
500 runsignup.com
Registration
RunSignUp runsignup.com
Qualifying
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Minimum age
not checked yet
Transfers
not checked yet
Deferrals
Yes runsignup.com
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
Yes runsignup.com
Muling
not checked yet
Drop bags
not checked yet
Cupless
not checked yet
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
A pacer can join you at sunset and stay with you until the end of the event. runsignup.com
Drop bag rules
not checked yet
Cutoff philosophy
One cutoff, at mile 92.5. How long the first 92.5 miles take is up to you. runsignup.com
Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other years
2026
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.

One person has been out there with a camera or a microphone.

Official channel

Sassquad Trail Running YouTube channel

Official channel

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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I keep this catalog because the information is scattered and hard to trust. Telling you when it moves is the same job.

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.