COVID-19 Safety Guidelines
You have an important role to play in facilitating a safe event, and we ask that you follow #RecreateResponsibly guidelines and adhere to the guidelines below to help us keep you and our broader community safe:
Maintain Physical Distancing
- Avoid gathering around others, and keep at least a six-foot interpersonal distance from anyone not in your household whenever possible
- Arrive at the event site no earlier than you need to in order to comfortably check in and prepare to start, and at most one hour before your start time. If you arrive with extra time, please stay in your car or take a walk away from the event area in order to facilitate distancing for yourself and others.
- Depart the event site promptly after you finish and complete your post-exercise routine
- Unless you are passing, please maintain at least a 20-foot distance when following others going a similar speed on the course. Announce yourself when you intend to pass someone else on the trail, wait for a relatively wide spot, and allow time for the person you are passing to step to one side of the trail.
Wear a Mask & Practice Good Hygiene
- Wear a mask or face covering at the event, only taking it off when you are about to start or are eating or drinking. You may want to bring a small plastic bag for your mask, so that you can put it in an easily accessible pocket when you aren’t wearing it.
- Wash your hands with soap for at least 20 seconds or use hand sanitizer frequently, plus immediately after contact with respiratory fluids or possibly contaminated objects, like portable toilet doors and other commonly-touched surfaces.
- If you need to cough or sneeze please cover it with a tissue (which you should then throw away as soon as possible) or with your elbow.
- Avoid touching your mouth, nose, and eyes.
Stay Home if You’re Sick or Vulnerable
- Do not attend the event if you have a temperature of 100.4F or greater, feel sick, or believe you may have recently been exposed to the COVID-19 virus
- Carefully consider whether you should attend the event if you are a member of a high-risk group or are in close contact with one or more people in a high-risk group (per CDC: 65+, immune compromised, having another health condition that exacerbates COVID-19)
- If you begin to experience the flu-like symptoms of COVID-19 while you are at the event, please immediately notify a staff person (at a safe distance) and self-quarantine away from others until you are able to safely depart the event