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Lakes Trail Festival

Name: Lakes Trail Festival
Start: 2025-10-04
End: 2025-10-04
Location: Hawks Nest

Hawks Nest, Australia • 4 Oct 2025

LAKES Trail Festival, based in Hawks Nest on NSW's North Coast, is Australia's fresh ultra-trail event set in the Myall Lakes region. Runners can choose from 100km, 70km, 50km, 30km, plus a 12km option and a 1km kids dash. All courses start and finish in Hawks Nest, tracing coastal and forest trails, beaches, and lake edges through the Myall Lakes National Park, including the Dark Point sand dunes and a halfway point past Seal Rocks lighthouse. The festival supports solo and team formats (100km in four legs or 50km in two) and offers on-course medical support, a finisher medal, and ITRA points for select distances. Organized by Fully Rad Adventures. Visit the organization's website for the most recent information.

Australia Hawks Nest

Race information

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100 km

100km

70 km

50 km

30 km

12 km

1km Kids Dash

Visit the organization's website for the most recent information.

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Sunday May 3

Trail Run Australia Tomaree

Fingal Bay - 9 km from Hawks Nest

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