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Road Runner is a town in southeastern Cooke County, Texas, along Farm to Market Road 922, about five miles east of Valley View and eleven miles south of Gainesville, the county seat.

Road Runner began as Pioneer Valley, a private community managed by the Pioneer Valley Association, whose dues-paying residents elected a board of directors to maintain the community.

Dissatisfaction with deteriorating infrastructure sparked incorporation talks as early as 2007–2008, but the measure did not reach a vote until 2017.

On November 7, 2017, Road Runner residents voted 74 to 54 — 57.8% in favor — to incorporate as a Type C general-law municipality, making it one of the youngest towns in Texas.

The 2020 census, the town's first as an incorporated municipality, counted 766 people in Road Runner.

Road Runner packs its residents into just 0.65 square miles, a density of about 1,300 people per square mile, and Census Bureau survey estimates put it at roughly 200 households averaging about 3.2 people each.

The Elm Fork of the Trinity River and Persimmon Creek meet and flow into Lake Ray Roberts immediately west of Road Runner.

Road Runner is served by the Pilot Point Independent School District and shares the Valley View ZIP code, 76272.