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Packet Pickup & Race Schedule

The Original Kroger A2 Turkey Trot

Helping Put Turkeys on Tables This Thanksgiving

TRADE YOUR CANNED FOOD FOR EPIC T-SHIRTS

We’re proud to partner with Food Gatherers as the featured charity for this event. Food Gatherers exists to alleviate hunger and eliminate its causes in our community. They regard every gift of food and money as a sacred trust to be used for the most effective hunger relief possible.

🧃 10 cans = 1 Epic T-shirt
🥫 20 cans = 3 Epic T-shirts
🫙 30 cans = 5 Epic T-shirts

Prefer to give cash? $5 = 10 cans.

All donations collected at The Original Kroger A2 Turkey Trot will be distributed locally in time for Thanksgiving Day.

Packet Pickup

Location:
Ann Arbor Running Company, 2621 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105

Date & Time:
Saturday, November 8, 2025, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. EDT

Race Day Packet Pickup

Time: 7:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. EDT

Location:
Hudson Mills Activity Center (Race Site), 8801 N. Territorial Road, Dexter, MI 48130

Bring your canned food donations to the parking lot collection area near the start line during race-morning packet pickup!

Schedule of Events

  • 8:55 a.m. — Kids’ 200-Meter Drumstick Dash
  • 9:00 a.m. — 5K Start
  • 10:00 a.m. — 10K Start
  • 10:30 a.m. — Mashed Potato Mile Start

Directions & Parking

Hudson Mills Metropark, 8801 N. Territorial Road, Dexter, MI 48130

The park fee is $10 per vehicle if you don’t have an annual Metroparks pass. To keep traffic flowing, please have your pass or a $10 bill ready at the gate.
Learn more about Metropark passes and parking fees.

Enter from North Territorial Road and follow signs to The Activity Center. You’ll be directed to event parking upon arrival.


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