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The Driftless Half Marathon
Lansing, IA · Sports
- When
- October 10, 2026
- Where
- Great River Road, finishing downtown · Lansing · IA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A half marathon, 10K, and 5K run along the Mississippi River bluffs of the Driftless Area, following the Great River Road into downtown Lansing. The race is timed each October to peak fall foliage in Iowa's northeastern corner.
The history within reach
- Effigy Mounds19 mi
More than two hundred mounds on the bluffs above the Mississippi, many shaped as bears and birds up to 137 feet long, built over several centuries and best read from the air.
A large fur-trade-era reenactment on the Mississippi River island where Prairie du Chien's historic trading post once stood.
Alvin Straight was seventy-three, could not get a driver's licence, and heard that his estranged brother had had a stroke.
- Nordic Fest29 mi
Decorah's Norwegian heritage takes over downtown for a weekend of folk dancing, Viking battle re-enactments, and aebleskiver breakfasts, anchored by the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum.
The old G.