Thousands of people enjoy Mt. Shasta's Fourth of July event, especially during the annual 4th of July Walk/Run when people get to visit while enjoying a pleasant walk?not to mention entertainment and goodies. Mountain Runners spends months preparing for the morning event, while the community reaps rewards from the group's generosity year round. Evidence of the event?s impact can be seen in the numerous beatification projects enhancing downtown as well as felt in the significant funding distributed to youth sports, nonprofit, and community groups year after year.

Mountain Runners shares the proceeds of the event with a wide variety of local partners. Many of the volunteers who make the event possible represent a wide variety of local youth sports, nonprofit, and community groups who both show up to get things done as well as receive a share of the proceeds from the event.

In 2018, Mountain Runners became one of the founding projects in creating Siskiyou Outdoor Recreation Alliance, formed with the aim of gathering together the larger community of outdoor recreation nonprofit organizations and initiatives throughout far Northern California. SORA hopes to serve to amplify the voice of outdoor recreation interests within the region, and support partnerships, policy, and planning related to outdoor recreation and community vitality.