BRR Map

"Map" of the Bull Run Run Course

The REI map of the Bull Run Trail is excellent to get you to the start and the aid stations by car, but it does not show the "Do Loop" or the "White Loop." That map shows a 19 mile trail that does not explain where the extra 12 miles are.

Crews: This map is not intended for you. It will probably confuse you. Check out the crew instructions.

If There is High Water: If the water in Bull Run is high, we may have to change the course. There is a high water course planned in case we need it.

The map below is not intended to portray the course precisely. It does show the relative relationship of the check points and aid stations. In conjunction with the REI map, it should give you a good idea of the course. A few points about the map:

Since the stream goes diagonally across a real map, terms like "west" or "north" can be confusing. Think of the top of the map as "upstream" and the bottom as "downstream." (Technically, at the downstream end of the course, the stream is no longer the Bull Run. It's the Occoquan River.) The stream (the Bull Run that joins the Occoquan River) flows along the left of the map from the top to the bottom. The town of Manassass and Bull Run Regional Park are at the top of the map while Lorton and I-95 would be off the map at the bottom.

To see how you run the course, click the "Tour the Course" button.

You always go down the hill from Hemlock (the Start/15.5 Mile Aid Station/Finish) on the trail that goes downstream from the park and you come back up to Hemlock from upstream on the trail from Popes Head Creek. You always go down on one trail and you always come up on the other.

You only do the white loop outbound. It's blazed white.

This map does not show the loop through Hemlock Overlook at the beginning of the race. This short loop is designed to spread out the field before it hits the single track trail.

Change from 2006: We are going back to the course used in 2002 and before except that we will use the horse trail rather than the bike trail between Fountainhead and the Do Loop. This course will have two significant differences from 2005. First, runners will run all the way to the upstream end of the Bull Run Trail in Bull Run Regional Park. This allows viewing of some of the best fields of bluebells in the world. (You will cross Cub Run, not turn around there as you did in 2005.)

The second change from 2005 is that you will do the White Loop only outbound. You will not do the White Loop on the way back.

Detailed maps and further information about the Bull Run Trail on the PATC Site

If you want to load the map below all by itself in a page, click here. That may make it easier to print although it may not be worth printing.

This map is not the ultimate achievement in cartography. Any comments or criticisms are welcome. This map is Anstr's fault. Don't blame Chris Scott for it! Remember it's not to scale!

NOTE: Distances on this map have not yet been updated for 2006.