Cave Spring Arts Festival 5K & 1M

📅 Event Date

Saturday, June 14, 2025

🕗 Race Times

• 8:15 AM: 5K
• 8:25 AM: 1 Mile Run/Walk

💵 Registration Fees

• 5K: $30 Pre-Registration Entry Fee / $40 Day of Race
• 1 Mile Run/Walk: $25

NOTE: Groups of 5 or more sign up by 5/27/25 and receive a "personalized" Team Trophy!

🎉 Race & Festival Highlights

• Experience: The best race in Northwest Georgia!
• Enjoy: The 49th Annual Arts and Crafts Festival
• Access: Race T-shirt gets you into the Festival and the famous Cave Spring pool for FREE!
• Support: Proceeds benefit historical preservation and educational programs.

🍦 Family Activities

Obtain a walk, ride, or drive Tour Guide from our nearby museum. This guide will introduce a community that has epochal connections to 1000’s of years of Native American, early settler, African American, and deaf cultural history. Tour includes largest Indian cabin: Fairview Rosenwald School museum project: 18th Century Georgia School for the Deaf buildings, train depot, Chubb Town, and 90 different structures on the National Register of Historic Places. Additionally, directions are included to the local trailheads of the Pinhoti Trail. In a town established in 1822, yet quite vibrant still today, you will feel like walking through time!

🛍️ Local Shopping & Dining

• Shop: Unique antique malls and shops for collectibles and country gifts.
• Dine: Variety from Southern home cooking to 5-star dining.
• Indulge: Ice Cream shop, Christmas and fudge shop, and bakery.

🏊 Pool Access

Finish out your weekend visiting the large limestone cave, partaking of the nationally-famous clean spring water and languishing in the spring-fed 1.5 acre swimming pool, Georgia’s largest! This year runners receive free pass to pool as well as festival. Remember to bring your swim suit!

🔗 More Information

For more information on both the Race & the Arts Festival, check out our Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/cavespring5k/) and/or the Cave Spring City Website at www.cityofcavespring.com/events

📦 Pre-Race Packet Pick-up

Friday, June 13th, from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM, you may pick up your Race Packet/T-shirt under the pavilion at Rolater Park in Cave Spring, near the large 'Hearn Academic Bldg.' Packets will also be available on race morning, Saturday, but it sure takes some stress off to get it early!

🏆 Hand-Crafted Awards

5K

• Awards: Handmade ceramic Plates for Top Overall Male/Female, Masters, Grandmasters, and Senior Grandmasters in various categories.
• Age Group Awards: Hand-crafted Mugs and Pendants/Medallions for the Top 3 in multiple age groups.
• Team Trophy: Note: Groups of 5 or more sign up by 5/27/25 receive a "personalized" Team Trophy for best time in their group.

1 Mile

Overall Winners in the following Age Groups for the 1 Mile Run/Walk will receive a commemorative medallion: 8-and-Under, 9-10, 11-and-Over. Walkers receive a pendant. Special award for youngest & oldest finisher.

🏃‍♂️ 5K Course Description

This USATF-certified course starts in front of Historic 1848 Fannin Hall and winds through town before turning by the Georgia School for the Deaf. The course is mostly flat with a few rolling hills, offering a memorable tour of Cave Spring on foot!

📝 Registration

REGISTER TODAY ONLINE or send a manual, printed entry form and check payable to: Cave Spring Historical Society, Box 133, Cave Spring, GA, 30124.

🌧️ Weather Policy

RACE WILL BE HELD RAIN OR SHINE.

📞 Contact Information

For More Information Contact:

John Johnston – cell: (706) 331-9753 or email: John9897@gmail.com

Pattie Johnston – cell: (706) 777-8546

Visit the Official Race Page