Dances With Dirt, This Weekend

The 2023 Dances With Dirt adventure run, happening this Saturday, July 8th, from 6:30 AM to 7:30 PM. Set in the stunning landscapes of Devil’s Lake State Park, this run provides a unique opportunity to experience our park’s natural beauty while challenging yourself physically.

Participants can choose from a variety of distances: 10K, half-marathon, marathon, 50K, and 50M. Expect to traverse single-track trails, gravel roads, grassy paths, paved trails, and even some off-trail areas. This unique running event offers a blend of terrain types that will challenge your endurance and reward your efforts. Participants who complete an ultra distance at all 3 Dances With Dirt events in 2022 will earn a commemorative belt buckle. Find more information here.

With the DWD event happening on Saturday, park visitors can expect to encounter participants crossing roads and running on a number of trails in the park including the East & West Bluff Trails, Steinke Basin, Uplands & Sauk Point Trails throughout the morning and early afternoon. So keep this in mind while traveling around the park on Saturday.

Derrick Mayoleth

For nearly 2 decades the Skillet Creek blog has focused on 3 main goals; To inspire you to visit and explore the Devil’s Lake region, to help you get the most your visit by sharing tips, events, and other helpful information. Lastly to advocate for our environment & wildlife and talk about how we can keep our natural areas amazing now and into the future! That last goal can sometimes cause controversy, but it’s the only way we can accomplish the first two. – Derrick Mayoleth, Owner.