Overview Grand Circle Trailfest is a three-day trail running festival based in Kanab, Utah. Vacation Races, the national-park race series owned by Motiv Sports, puts it on. Each morning runners race a different timed trail near Bryce Canyon, Zion or Antelope Canyon. Then the festival starts. One All Festival Pass covers the three races, the evening program, breakfast and dinner, and a tent at basecamp. On site Basecamp is Jacob Hamblin Park in Kanab, where runners check in at the expo, get one timing bib for all three races and stay for a welcome dinner and keynote. Day one links the Thunder Mountain and Golden Wall trails among Red Canyon's hoodoos. Day two runs the mesa rim from Smithsonian Butte to Wire Mesa, facing Zion. Day three loops through slot canyons on Navajo Nation land with Navajo guides. Afternoons bring massage, yoga, clinics, live music and talks. Nights end with dinner, a beer garden, awards and films. Most runners camp on site. Audience Most runners travel in for the whole week of camping and trails, and at the latest edition about two in three were women. The average age was mid-forties, with most runners between 35 and 54. Across Vacation Races, nine in ten runners visit a national park while in town. They stay four nights and eat together. Talent and Influencers There is no elite field. Runners race for daily finisher awards and an overall placing across the three days. The evening program books a keynote speaker and live bands, including professional runner and author Keira D'Amato and the Portland folk-Americana duo Fox and Bones. Track record Trailfest is the signature multi-day event of Vacation Races, which also stages a Moab edition. The most recent Kanab edition drew 266 runners, with more than 250 finishers on each of the three days. One past runner wrote that she came back the next year and brought her husband and friends. Brand presence Runna is the official training partner and HotelPlanner the lodging partner. Honey Stinger gels stock the aid stations. Big Agnes pads are rented to campers. Series partners include Grüns, dip, Neuma, Siete Foods, Kate's Real Food, Sawyer, ZICO and Muscle Milk. Sponsors can brand the arch, courses, basecamp stage, shirt and race guide. Or they can take an expo booth, sample at the finish and basecamp, stock aid stations, or present a race day or the beer garden. Emails and social posts reach runners before they arrive.