Tranquility Lake 50K and 25K Trail Race

Final Race of the 2015 Mountain High Outfitters Southeastern Trail Series. Oak Mtn Park is Alabama’s largest state park with 10,000 spectacular acres and over 50 miles of trails. The race will start and end at the Redbud Pavilion located on Tranquility Road, adjacent to the BMX. The race will start at 7:00 AM and we are required to enforce a 9.5 hour cutoff to insure that everyone is off the trails before dark, per park regulations. (Sunrise on the 22nd is 6:23 a.m. and sunset is 4:41 PM) The 50K race will be two laps a course circling the park. There will be 2 complete aid stations per lap. The first will be located on Peavine Falls Road at mile 5.9 and the second at the start/finish, Redbud Pavilion Aid Station, at mile 15.6. We will also set up a water-only aid station near the North Trail Head at 12.7 miles. We will have mandatory cutoffs at the start/finish, Redbud AS at mile 15.6 and at the Peavine Falls Aid Station on the second lap. 

The trails at Oak Mountain State Park are rugged, as are all mountain trails in the southeastern United States. Double Oak Mountain, which runs the length of the park rises above the surrounding terrain over 600 ft. and the 50K course will gain about 4,390 feet, per my GPS. The course is 100% single track trials other than a 1 mile section of gravel road (a bike road with very limited automobile access) leading up to an old scout camp.