Megunticook Trail Festival

Megunticook Trail Festival : Camden Hills State Park, Maine

The Megunticook Trail Festival stages three trail races at Camden Hills State Park, with the main entrance on Route 1 near 280 Belfast Rd in Camden, ME. The event uses park trails and ledges that offer coastal views and forest running.

Distances

• 50K, traverses over 90 percent of park trails
• Halfast 20k, mainly wide gravel trail with minimal singletrack
• Wicked Tough 10k, step singletrack and open ledge views

The Megunticook 50K includes about 7,600 feet of elevation gain, steep rocky and rooty trails, six aid stations (one passed twice), three short out-and-backs, and summits of six park peaks: Battie, Bald Rock, Derry, Frohock, Cameron, and Megunticook. The Halfast 20k has about 1,900 feet of gain, roughly 3.9 km of singletrack, one summit at Cameron, and two aid stations (one passed twice). The Wicked Tough 10k rises about 1,600 feet and combines wooded trails with open ledge sections that provide ocean views.

Entries are limited. Registration fees include a bib, a t-shirt, a swag item, and a post-race meal. The organizer does not issue refunds; deferrals are granted for pregnancy or volunteer service.

The festival is held on the ancestral, unceded lands of the Wabanaki Nations. Megunticook means great swells of the sea. Indigenous peoples are invited to participate free of charge, and registrants may donate to Niweskok, a Wabanaki-led organization. Visit the organization's website for the most recent information.