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Runners will start the race in the park’s parking lot area just off Highway 509 (Dash Point Road), which lies just a short walk from the shoreline on Puget Sound, where visitors can take in both the beach and the wildlife, and where they may spot ducks, eagles, foxes and perhaps even coyotes.įrom the start/finish area near the parking lot, they’ll head south across Dash Point Road and into the trails that wind through the park, which is bordered by residential developments on all sides.
#Dash point state park series
What the race organizers describe as “non-technical, cushy” trails await inside the forests of Washington’s Dash Point State Park, which lies less than an hour’s drive south from Seattle along the shoreline of Puget Sound and where runners will make their way along an out-and-back course at the 9th annual Dash Point State Park Half Marathon & 10K Trail Run.Ī trail race that’s part of a race series organized by 4th Dimension Racing, a locally-based race management company that organizes trail runs throughout the Seattle-Tacoma area like August’s Grand Ridge Trail Half Marathon in nearby Issaquah, the Dash Point Park races take runners mostly along the trails of this nearly 400-acre park, which offers gorgeous views of the nearby Vashon and Maury Islands as well as the Olympic Mountains off in the distance.