We thank the Mountain Man Memorial March faithful who have been the bedrock in the continued growth of our event and Veteran & Gold Star community which continues to Honor our Fallen and support our Gold Star Families!  To the new participants in 2024, we thank you for joining the MMMM family and we look forward to seeing you in future events.  We are so thankful for our participants, volunteers, partners and sponsors!  

For 2025, the Mountain Man Memorial March will again partner with Legacies Alive (https://legaciesalive.com/), a 501(c)(3) Non-profit organization directly supporting Gold Star Families.  The FREE hot meal you get post-race, thank Legacies Alive for providing!!  We look forward to our partnership with Legacies Alive.

The 2025 Mountain Man Memorial March will continue to offer both the March events and the Run events. We look forward to having everyone return to Gatlinburg in 2025 to join with our Military and Veteran community!

In conjunction with the City of Gatlinburg and the Sevier County Schools, the 2025 Mountain Man Memorial March will start and finish at the Pi Beta Phi Elementary School (125 Cherokee Orchard Rd, Gatlinburg, TN 37738) and pre/post race activities will take place adjacent to the school.   

The 2025 Mountain Man Memorial March Course Maps can be found here: 18th Annual Mountain Man Memorial March Routes.  The bridge construction in Emert's Cove area (vic mile 20) is complete - so no detour over the rocks!!!!!!!!

In addition to in-person racing and the usual categories in the team march, individual march and run events, we will also continue to offer a virtual racing option in 2025.  We believe many MMMM veterans want to return, but the virtual option will be there if you cannot make it to Gatlinburg and still wish to be a part of this tremendous event and mission.  Virtual racers will still receive the same race shirt and participant medal, but will not compete for placing since conditions will vary at each of their location.  We hope this slight change to the format offering will accommodate all of our previous MMMM family and allow us to continue to grow the race in Honor of our Fallen and in support of the Gold Star Families left behind.  

Based on the previous two years of registration data, there have been a couple category changes - for the individual light full march, we combined the military and civilian categories; we kept the JROTC Light Half, but did away with the JROTC Heavy Half...if a JROTC wants to do the Heavy Half, please use the Team Military Heavy Half category.     

The run events include a full 26.2mi marathon, a 13.1mi half marathon, a 10K run and a 5K run. The run events are further divided into categories based on gender and age.

The march events have two distances - the full 26.2mi marathon and the 13.1mi half marathon. The march event subcategories will be defined further as follows -  an individual, as a team (5 members), in a civilian category or in a military qualification category.  Competitors in the Military category, whether competing as a team or as an individual, must be affiliated with a military organization or military type organization. Military teams or individuals may register in the civilian categories but civilians without military affiliation may not register in military categories. The March categories are further divided into Heavy and Light categories.  Heavy categories and Light categories have uniform and ruck sack weight requirements. Individual march events will be further divided into categories based on gender and age.  See the official rules for a complete breakdown of categories and uniform requirements.

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