- 8K Race Map (College Men)
- 5K Race Map (College Women)
- 5K Race Map (High School) – Course preview video of the High School 5K Course. (Video created to Coach Bartin with Kirkwood High School)
- 2 Mile Map (Junior High)
- 8k Race Map (Community Open Run)
- 4k Race Map (Community Open Run)
- Tom Lewis 1 Mile Pepper Dash
Maps will be available at packet pick up.
- College Men’s Course is 8K.
- College Women’s Course is 5K.
- High School Course is 5K
- Junior High Course is 2 Miles.
- The Godpepper Community Races have 4k and 8k options.
Course Description
The Chile Pepper Cross Country Festival is held at the University of Arkansas cross country course in Fayetteville. Carved out of a portion of the University’s on-campus agricultural area – hence the name Agri Park – the course provides the region’s best dedicated cross county course.
Developed prior to the start of the 1996 Chile Pepper Festival, the course itself is a combination of grass and cinder terrain. The course configuration has three distinct areas. The open area of the starting line is separated from the pond and Razorback Meadow by a grove of trees surrounding the former site of one of Fayetteville’s old eateries, the Farmer’s Daughter.
Razorback Meadow is open and relatively flat. The pond section has more contour as the trail rises up along the rim of the course’s water feature. The finish chute is shaded by a row of trees separating it from the starting line area.
The race consists loops on the grass path through the fields and slightly wooded sections of Agri Park. The race starts with runners lined up across a wide field in the northeast corner of the park. The field starts to narrow close to a quarter mile into the race. Near the half mile mark, the course turns right and runners face an incline. The course then turns right and continues slightly downhill to the 1 mile marker. From there, each race takes a slightly different path through Razorback Meadow and ends in a straight away sprint to the finish line through roaring crowds!