What's your favorite cross country course?

Buffalo Park, Flagstaff.

Not because it's a great course, or anything, I just enjoy running there...

Nice 2.2 miler with exercise stations, bathrooms, and water fountains. Looks like a beautiful landscape too! When I travel, I enjoy exploring/running recommended courses. Thanks.

Discovered Crystal Springs by accident several years ago on a trip to Cali and enjoyed my runs there. Not an easy course.

Crystal Springs is awesome but I’ll always be partial to Garin Park, across the Bay in Hayward. Former home of the Mariner Invite.

Your got that right. It gets really windy out there, too. But there's a great view of the Crystal Springs reservoir, not to mention cool wild life. One time a big bob cat leaped across the trail right in front of me. It was freaking awesome.

Cass Benton. Northville, MI. Only because you asked.

Holmdel Park 5K. Absolutely brutal first mile, Ches has the fastest ever at 5:03. Course has been unchanged for 50 years so easy to compare against past NJ legends.

Alton Baker Park (in Eugene) where UO hosted their old Jeff Drenth invite. The course used a lot of Pre's Trail and had hay bales. I ran DIII and I was so happy not to get DFL.

Bush Pasture Park (at Willamette University) was where I ran my college PR. Such a good, big park. You can do 8km without too many repeat loops and at the same time, the whole course is clear and easy to spectate.

Course has been massively changed. It is much faster today. It’s basically “Rupp certified”. Kidding about the Rupp reference, but the course has been smoothed out the first mile, the bowl is SOOO much easier, and the section from the tennis courts to the finish is faster without all the railroad ties to jump

I thought C.S. was old (early 60s), Cass Benton has been around since the 1920s.

Of the courses I’ve seen, the middle 3/4 of Mt. Sac. It’s too bad the whole thing can’t be a 5k off pavement.

-Holmdel Park

-VCP

-Tom Sawyer Park

-Lehigh

-Wisconsin

I've never run Terre Haute but it looks like a great course. Would love to run there one day

Harry H Lang XC Course

Van Cortlandt

Maryland XC Course

Bull Run is tough, but fun

Seahawk

Van Cortlandt is definitely a classic. Not a manicured course by any means, but it's also possible to run pretty fast there.

Hey, that's Colgate. When I first read "Sanford Field House" I thought it was Stanford. Northeast winters are mighty cold.

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Chernobyl.

Wickham Park CT

My SAC is a gimmick course. you start on pavement, run two 300m laps on a dirt then begin 3 steep hills followed by three steep descents. My team had a specific “Mt SAC strategy” that was different than all other courses. if you ran well there you were just lucky on the day.