About the Thanksgiving Day Bethel Park Recreation Turkey Trot 5K Run & Walk
This Thanksgiving morning race runs on the Montour Trail, a paved rail trail that gives you a smooth, open surface through a wooded corridor. The out-and-back shape means there are no surprises underfoot, and the tree cover keeps things quiet. It draws the usual holiday mix of people who ran hard the day before and people who are just getting started.
Packet pickup runs in the days leading up to the race at the Bethel Park Community Center, with several windows spread across the week before Thanksgiving. The start is right on the trail at Clifton Road. Cash prizes go to the top finishers in both the men's and women's fields.
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Thanksgiving Day Bethel Park Recreation Turkey Trot 5K Run & Walk 2025 Results
Going by the 2025 results, this is a small, friendly field, and the spread of finish times is wide, so this is a mostly recreational race rather than one for club runners.
5K Results · 2025
275finishers
15:23winner
33:48median
1:05:14cutoff
Top 3: Tobias Jones (15:23) · Joshua Kalapos (15:58) · Alex Drozd (16:39)
The Thanksgiving Day Bethel Park Recreation Turkey Trot 5K Run & Walk has been held every year since at least 2019. That is as far back as RunSignup's records for this race go, so it may well be older.
How we calculate these stats: RunSesh calculates these figures from the most recent published results of past editions, sourced from RunSignup. We show aggregates only: field size, winning and median times, and the cutoff. We never publish individual finisher tables. Last updated Nov 12, 2026.
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