Welcome to Acorn Trails
Acorn Trails bring you all the best in trail running around Glasgow, South West Scotland and beyond.
Events
Acorn Trails have events from Mugdock to Mull of Galloway!
The acclaimed South By Five series is not to be missed during the winter months, whilst the spring and summer are packed with trail events in Glasgow’s south side parks.
Early autumn leads us down to Galloway for the awesome Mull of Galloway events including the scenic Sandhead10, before heading back north to Mugdock Park for the classic Duncan Macfarlane Race. Will we see you at the Dunky?
Check out the Events section for more details on our calendar of races.
Guided Trails Runs
Alex and other experienced trail runners will lead regular runs in the dirt for all levels from newbie to the trails, to the experienced mud-hoggers
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Latest from the Blog
An exhibition…
Number 5 The moon was still riding high as runners made their way to a frosty and cold Bellahouston Park for the fifth installment of the 2025/26 South By Five series. An early course inspection by Callum & Magda and Alex & Fletch led to a few “hotspots” (coldspots i guess) being given a bit of the grit salt treatment to ensure the course was ready to run. Then just prior to the race the […]
Mudfest
The common theme across folks description of South By Five’s visit to Pollok Park was “mudfest”! Traditionally a muddy route, the recent unsettled and unseasonably wet weather turned the race into our muddiest ever! Even course marking was fun! An out section led to the start of the ‘screaming pits’, with squeals, squelches and wails caught on video and photo by the ever intrepid Blythe! The course then began a two loop circuit with some […]
Saints Day
St. Andrew’s Day The sky shone blue on another beautiful South By Five day. All that was needed was a couple of crossed contrails to celebrate St Andrews Day…. It wasn’t just a blue sky, runners were encouraged to celebrate and several of yous came attired accordingly. Volunteers also joined in, and Colin the Clown AKA Colin the Cone became Coin the Kilt. The alliteration continues, lets see what he comes up with for the […]
Duck Tales
A beautiful cold crisp morning for our “home race”. Linn Park is a just a few hundred metres from Acorn HQ, and Jim is well versed in every nook and cranny in the park. Means Alex can get out even earlier for the course marking. Disappointingly the mud was frozen as was the duck pond! But it had a few hours at that stage to defrost. And it did…. Interest Race 2 at Linn Park […]