The annual Light the Way 5K Race at Dollywood is set for this November! Help celebrate over a decade of fun and memories!
The 2024 event course is being re-certified to provide the best race experience. It will start in a different location for a more streamlined course route that will eliminate runners having to make a second loop on park. More than half of the course for this year’s race will be off-park, first utilizing Dollywood’s tram road and then concluding the race through Dollywood’s 6 million Christmas lights. Only runners who want to race should sign-up for the 5K; with the new course, the 5K will not be an experience for walkers. Those interested in being part of the event specifically as walkers should sign-up for the 1-mile fun walk.
There is nothing quite like Dollywood at Christmas. Experience a nighttime run in the nation’s most beautiful holiday park during the award-winning Smoky Mountain Christmas festival! It’s never too early to get in the Christmas spirit.
This year’s race is being facilitated by the Knoxville Track Club.
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With so many people starting at once there was no running for 5 to 10 minutes at all. One course monitor send us the wrong way so they had to … MORE
With so many people starting at once there was no running for 5 to 10 minutes at all. One course monitor send us the wrong way so they had to come after us , like something like this never ever happened to me. Forget about time with all that stuff going on. Yeah the lights are pretty , the course is mainly flat, does not make up for bad production. I still don’t have a race time so I guess our bibs did not worked either. Iam pretty upset about that too, NOT MONEY WELL SPEN AT ALL. CANNOT RECOMMEND