Events
5k Run/Walk -TIMED and Scored
Fun Run/Walk (Untimed, approx .75 miles)
Description
Kick off the holiday season with a spirited run/walk at Thornton's Carpenter Park. Choose from the chip-timed 5k, or experience the festive atmosphere in a shorter distance in our untimed Fun Run/Walk.
Stick around after for the festival, including Ice skating, Holiday Marketplace, Santa visits, and the Heated Beer Garden.
Celebrate the Best of Winter in Thornton, Colorado. You'll enjoy a warm drink at the finish line in your festive collectible mug.
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Finishers Mug
All runners will receive an awesome finishers mug. Come get in some miles and then warm up with cocoa in your proudly earned collectable, finisher mug with your fellow runners. 2025 Mug is pictured below.
CHARITY PARTNER
We are very excited to partner with Food For Hope for the Winterfest. Food for Hope runs Food Programming inside of schools that supports over 60 local schools in Adams County. Bring your in-kind food donations on race day for a chance to win a raffle prize! Your generous donations go directly to LOCAL Adams County children and families.
Food for Hope programs include: During the 2025-26 School year, Food for Hope supported over 4,000 on a monthly basis just in Food Pantry visitors in Adams County Schools. Our weekend bag program distributed over 27,000 bags, 128,900 School Fuel Snack Program while also running In-School Food Pantry Programs.
As of the 2025-2026 School Year, Food for Hope operated nine in-school/district site food pantries at:
Adams 14 - Hope Center
27J - Brighton Learning and Resource Center
Pinnacle Charter School
Shadow Ridge Middle School
McElwain Elementary School
STEM Launch
Northglenn High School
Mapleton Schools
Coronado Elementary
These locations provide fresh and shelf-stable groceries for students and their families who attend school in these communities and need nutritional support.
If you'd like to bring food donations for Food for Hope please bring unexpired Snacks such as Granola-Power-Nutrition Bars, Snack Size Goldfish or Pretzels, Fruit Snacks, Beef Jerky, Protein Milks-Individual Sizes, Capri-Sun Individual Pouches or similar, Snack Size Nuts, Snack Size Granola and how to be entered into the race day raffle HERE!
GIVE YOUR SHOES ANOTHER LIFE
We are proud to partner with Sneakers4Funds! When you donate your gently used or new athletic shoes, a donation is made to our ongoing charity partner, Growing Home!
Bring your shoes to Advanced Packet Pick Up or on Race day! Click here for more info!
Place
Carpenter Park
Thornton, CO US 80233
Race Contact Info
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Directions
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