🦃 Logan Community Foundation Turkey Trot 5K & 1-Mile Fun Walk 🦃

Run for the trail. Walk for the community. Celebrate Logan!

Join the Logan Community Foundation on Saturday, November 21, 2026, for our inaugural Turkey Trot 5K run/walk & 1-Mile Fun Walk as we celebrate the opening of Phase 1 of Logan’s Safe Routes to School Trail!

Before the race, we’ll celebrate this exciting community milestone with a ribbon-cutting ceremony outside the Logan-Magnolia School Panther Dome. Then it’s time to lace up, hit the trail and celebrate the community spirit that helped make this project possible.

A Trail Years in the Making

The vision for Logan’s trail system took shape through the 2022 Iowa’s Living Roadways Community Visioning process, where surveys, focus groups, steering committee meetings and public open houses consistently identified safer walking and biking connections, especially a safe route to Logan-Magnolia Schools, as a community priority. The resulting plan proposed a broader trail network shaped by existing walking patterns, community destinations, and public input. 

From there, the work shifted from vision to implementation. The community began prioritizing projects, pursuing grants, building partnerships and planning improvements in phases, exactly as envisioned in the 2022 plan. Over the next few years, multiple grant applications, significant funding from the Iowa Department of Transportation, and impressive local support through private donations steadily moved the trail from an idea on paper to the project now under construction.

Phase 1 is the first major step in that larger vision, and this Turkey Trot is our chance to celebrate how far we’ve come while continuing to dream about Logan’s future. 

The Logan Community Foundation

The Logan Community Foundation was created with a simple belief: when a community comes together, it can create lasting change.

Our Foundation supports projects that enhance the quality of life in Logan, and the Safe Routes to School Trail is a perfect example of that mission in action—creating something that will benefit children, families and community members for years to come.

Choose Your Challenge

🏃 5K Run/walk – 3.1 miles of fun, including a portion of our brand-new trail.

🚶 1-Mile Fun Walk – A family-friendly way to experience the new trail and celebrate this milestone.

With each registration you will receive a free t-shirt within your race packet! More details about the t-shirt will be located within the registration process. 

All funds raised from this event will be dedicated towards trail amenities such as lighting along the trail. 

Come join in the fun! 

Whether you're a serious runner, casual walker, bringing the kids, or simply want to celebrate Logan, there’s a place for you!

Grab your family, friends and neighbors and join us for a morning of community, celebration and a little Turkey Trot fun!

Let's celebrate where we've been, where we are today, and where we're going next.

See you on the trail! 🦃👟