{"id":185310,"date":"2026-05-06T13:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185310\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:16:07","slug":"wissahickon-trail-classic-just-over-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185310\/","title":{"rendered":"Wissahickon Trail Classic just over the horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 17th Wissahickon Trail Classic (WTC), one of the region\u2019s premier 10K trail races, is ready to welcome hundreds of runners to Wissahickon Valley Park on Saturday, June 6.<\/p>\n<p>The race highlights the park as one of the best trail-running destinations on the East Coast, consistently attracting 500+ runners for its challenging course of steep climbs, rugged single-track trails and fast downhills, combined with stunning scenery through the beautiful Wissahickon gorge, providing a rural atmosphere across woodlands and along the Wissahickon Creek.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, June 6:<\/p>\n<p>Wissahickon Trail Classic 10K trail race and 1 mile family-friendly nature walk 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Starts\/finishes on W. Northwestern Ave. at Forbidden Drive<\/p>\n<p>Registration Fees:<\/p>\n<p>April 20 \u2014 June 5 $80; with FOW membership $105<\/p>\n<p>June 6 (Day of) $90; with FOW membership $115<\/p>\n<p>Family friendly nature hike on Forbidden Drive \u2013 $50 per family<\/p>\n<p>The WTC, which always takes place on National Trails Day, was established by FOW\u2019s race partner, the Wissahickon Wanderers Running Club.<\/p>\n<p>Benefitting Friends of the Wissahickon (FOW), funds raised will go directly to the stewardship of the Wissahickon trail system and watershed.<\/p>\n<p>Those interested can register at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fow.org\/wissahickontrailclassic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fow.org\/wissahickontrailclassic\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 17th Wissahickon Trail Classic (WTC), one of the region\u2019s premier 10K trail races, is ready to welcome&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[182,139,28,69,1212,71,70,22177,10918],"class_list":["post-185310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-county","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-roxborough-review","tag-top-stories-tth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}