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Imagine a transportation corridor running 1,150 miles across North Carolina, yet existing in anonymity to most residents of the state. “The Mountains-to-Sea Trail still remains the best-kept secret in North...

Umstead Trail Marathoners show that there’s more than one way to prepare for a 26.2-mile day Runners Taking their Mark before the start of the 10th Annual Umstead Trail Marathon...

After Diane Van Deren finished her record-breaking run across North Carolina on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail last June 1, she did something she’d never done as a professional athlete. She took...

Need to pad your log book numbers? Maybe get in a faster-than-normal trail run? Or maybe up your miles? Salem Lake Trail is a 7-mile loop around its namesake lake...

Ever run with someone who gets on your case for being obsessed with distances and times? Does your GPS watch really need to chime every mile? Can’t you take a...

Tory’s Den Trail Need some hill work? Some really good hill work? Hanging Rock is where Piedmonters from the east go to get in some simulated mountain training. “Simulated” in...

Pilot Mountain is a tale of two workouts. Need some mountain training? The 7.2-mile loop created by stringing together the Mountain, Grindstone and Grassy Ridge trails offers up-and-down around the...

If Salem Lake Trail (see Salem Lake Trail entry) is your easy day, Sauratown Trail is where you go to pay your dues. It’s not so much the elevation: despite...

Difficulty: Moderate Distance: 10 minutes from downtown Winston-Salem Length: 2-8 miles Time to complete: 30 minutes to 1.5 hours Address: 100 Reynolda Village City: Winston-Salem State: N.C. Zip: 27106 Latitude:...

Sugarloaf Dune Trail How much variety can you pack into a 3-mile training run? A lot, at Carolina Beach State Park. The trailhead for the Sugarloaf Dune Trail is at...

In the beginning, the Blue Cay Trail network was the domain of mountain bikers. And it wasn’t exactly a legal domain; more of a recreational eminent domain. But thanks to...

Yes, it’s a ways to go for five miles. But the pay-off on the Bay Trail is well-worth it. Running counterclockwise, the trail begins through dense coastal forest before quickly...

Just when you think you may have outgrown the trail network at the new Brunswick Nature Park you’ll likely encounter good news: There’s more trail. Currently at this 911-acre nature...

13 miles of bike & bridle trail Umstead’s bike & bridle trail is the core of the Umstead 100, one of the most popular ultra trail runs in the country....

20 miles of singletrack trail Umstead State Park offers Triangle runners the best of both worlds. Runners of all persuasions take advantage of the 13 miles of finely crushed gravel...

Not everyone embraces hills when it comes to training (see Umstead State Park entries). For those folks, there is the American Tobacco Trail. The ATT is the spine of a...

Peninsula Trail Every once in a while you pine for flat, foot-friendly, fast singletrack where you can, frankly, log a really fast time. Usually average 10 minutes per mile on...

FALLS LAKE PORTION If you thought a trail runner couldn’t have a better training facility than Umstead State Park, then you haven’t been on the Falls Lake portion of the...