Stillwater Half Marathon, 10k & 5k

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Date

May 23, 2026

Starting Time

8:00 AM

Course

Trail

Fees

$55 – $77

Location

Stillwater

Participants

500-1000

Terrain

Fast & Flat

Environment

Small Town

Temperature
High: 76°
/ Low: 53°
Overview

A long, point-to-point run along Minnesota’s Gateway State Trail awaits runners at the Stillwater Half Marathon, which starts on the trail and finishes at Stillwater’s historic Pioneer Park, overlooking the St. Croix River Valley.

Now in its 10th year, the Stillwater Half Marathon has established an excellent reputation with runners and kicks off a three-race series put on each year by organizer Run Stillwater, Inc., designed to showcase the best of the St. Croix River valley bordering Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Course Description

In between the race start and finish, runners can expect a very gradual downhill run punctuated with rolling hills.
The Gateway State Trail section of the race — roughly its first 7 1/2 miles or so — take runners along the former route of Minnesota’s Soo Line Railroad, which ferried both freight and passengers between St. Paul and Duluth between the 1940s and the 1960s.
The first eight miles of the course are on the paved Gateway Trail; a former Soo Line Railroad route. At the eight-mile mark runners leave the Gateway Trail and proceed south on Lansing Avenue enjoying the scenic rural countryside.
The final two miles gradually changes from rural to small town with the course taking runners past homes more than a century old in residential Stillwater to finish at Pioneer Park on the bluffs above Stillwater.

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