Runners get the chance to run through one of Virginia’s most beautiful cities here in the hills of Albemarle County, just south of Shenandoah National Park, at the Charlottesville Fall Classic Half Marathon & 10K, which saw just over 400 runners cross the finish line last year.
Here in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, at the home of the Thomas Jefferson-designed University of Virginia campus during the fall when the fall foliage should be around its peak, the race takes runners on an out-and-back course that starts near Charlottesville’s Historic Downtown Mall, at Lee Park. From there, the course heads first through downtown along Market Street toward Riverview Park.