Kingdom Games Schedule of Events
Kingdom Games is proud to host over 50 days of highly acclaimed swimming, running, and biking events.
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Run the Kingdom
The Dandelion Run – Half Marathon, 10 K, 4 Mile and 2 Mile – Run, Bike or Hike on dirt roads through the World Famous Dandelion Fields of Derby, Morgan, and Holland. Musicians sprinkle the course. It’s May! It’s Time to Run! Just for the Fun of It!
Harry Corrow Freedom Run – 10 Mile, 10 K, 5 K and 1 Mile Runs and Walks – We celebrate Freedom from Tyranny and Freedom from Asphalt. We run on the Newport-Derby Bike Path up the east side of Lake Memphremagog and on the Memphremagog Trails.
Fly to Pie, Kingdom Marathon – Run, Bike or Hike – 26.2, 17, 13.5, and 6 miles – Doin’ the dirt through the gut of the Kingdom at the height of Fall Foliage. We start at the airport in Coventry (or at the Irasburg Common for the 6-mile option) and finish at Parker Pie, West Glover. All the pizza you can eat, Hill Farmstead Beer on tap, some fine music. One of the toughest, most spectacular marathons East of the Mississippi. Just the best way to finish up our year.
Bike the Kingdom
The Dandelion Run – Marathon Bike on gravel roads through the World Famous Dandelion Fields of Derby, Morgan, and Holland. Musician sprinkle the course. It’s May! It’s Time to Run and Bike! Just for the Fun of It!
The Moose – 103 mile “timed event” through Moose Country. We start and finish at Mike’s Tiki Bar in East Burke, VT, with a 66 mile Short Route starting at the Island Pond Historical Society. Moose Dollars all around to be spent at Mike’s Tiki Bar with 30 beer on tap, the Burrito Stand, and, in Island Pond at the Essex House and Tavern.
Lake Region Ride – A 44 mile “cool down” ride to Sutton, past Crystal Lake, and through the Willoughby Gap with a start and finish at Mike’s Tiki Bar.
Fly to Pie, Kingdom Marathon – Run, Bike or Hike – 26.2, 17, 13.5, and 6 miles – Doin’ the dirt through the gut of the Kingdom at the height of Fall Foliage. We start at the airport in Coventry (or at the Irasburg Common for the 6-mile option) and finish at Parker Pie, West Glover. All the pizza you can eat, Hill Farmstead Beer on tap, some fine music. One of the toughest, most spectacular marathons East of the Mississippi. Just the best way to finish up our year.
SWIM THE KINGDOM
Memphremagog Winter Swim Fesitival – The only two-lane, 25 meter winter swimming pool cut in the ice in all of the Americas. 25-meter, 50-meter, 100-meter, and 200-meter races, plus the fiercest of hat competitions. Plus the Flag and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at the East Side Restaurant and Warm Up at Jasper’s Tavern and a Stay Play6 Jay Day. TOTALLY COLD.
NEKOWSA Champion of Champion Challenge – Three staged swim: 6.5 miles, then 3.5 miles followed by a 2-mile swim (Total 12 miles) out to and around the islands of Derby Bay on Lake Memphremagog.
Kingdom Swim– Our Flag Ship Swim – With a robust weekend, celebrating open water swimming in the Heart of the Kingdom in the Heart of Summer. We offer courses of varying distances including our 25 km Border Buster, 10 miles, 10 km, 5 km, and 1 mile. NO LANES – NO LINES – NO LIMITS.
Saturday Clubhous Swim Series–12, 6.5, 4, 3.3 and 2-mile courses. From The Clubhouse out to and around the Islands of Derby Bay on Lake Memphremagog. Offered from the middle of June, through July, August and the middle of September on Saturdays:
NEK Swim Week– 8 lakes over the course of 9 days – 46 miles. Swim one. Swim them all. Laid Back – Magical – Restorative – Summer at its best.
Crystal Lake – 5 miles
Island Pond – 4 miles
Lac Massawippi – 9 miles
Lake Seymour – 6.2 miles
Echo Lake – 7 miles
Clubhouse Swim – 2, 6.5, 12 miles
Willoughby – One Way – 5 miles
Two Ways – 10 miles
Caspian – 3 miles
In Search of Memphre – Our epic, 25-mile, international swim between Newport, VT and Magog, QC. This year we are offering eight three-day windows throughout July, August, and September (we pick the best day of the three to swim) with room for 1 to 3 swimmers in each window. Each swimmer is supported by a motorboat and pilot. We swim to support a more open border with our Canadian friends and to seek our swimmer friendly and elusive lake creature, Memphre.
Clubhous Cold Water Swimming –We will be hosting short, cold water swims at the Clubhous on Lake Memphremagog on Sunday mornings at 10 am during May and early June and again in October, November, and December until the lake freezes over, followed by another New Year’s Day Willoughby Swim on January 1st. Spring swimming starts sin May and continues thru June. Fall swimming starts in October and continues every Sunday through December.
Vampire Swim –In venues all over the world, cold water swimmers gather to celebrate this ghoulish holiday. We donate blood and raise donations for the Red Cross. We swim in costume and howl at the Moon. This year we will be hosting a Vampire Swim at The Clubhous in conjunction with our cold water, cold blooded friends around the world. VE VANT YOUR BLOOD!
Derby Light Up the Night Holiday Parade
December 2025 at 5:00 PM
August 9, 2025
Please call the Village of Derby Office 802-873-3420 or email dlvillage@derbyvt.org
for vender forms, be apart of the entertainment, like to share your style of music or if you would like to volunteer your time. We would be happy to hear from you. The Community Day Committee
