diff --git a/configs/test_dryrun.yaml b/configs/test/test_dryrun.yaml
similarity index 78%
rename from configs/test_dryrun.yaml
rename to configs/test/test_dryrun.yaml
index 8de92f45d..49e81e811 100644
--- a/configs/test_dryrun.yaml
+++ b/configs/test/test_dryrun.yaml
@@ -15,4 +15,8 @@ data:
     num_rays_per_batch: 8
 
 graph:
-  max_num_iterations: 5
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+  max_num_iterations: 5
+
+hydra:
+  searchpath:
+    - pkg://configs
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diff --git a/tests/configs/test_default.yml b/tests/configs/test_default.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e3571895..000000000
--- a/tests/configs/test_default.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,91 +0,0 @@
-dry_run: true
-
-defaults:
-  # This makes the logging module logs colorful
-  - override hydra/job_logging: colorlog
-  - override hydra/hydra_logging: colorlog
-
-logging:
-  steps_per_log: 10
-  # stats tracker logs configurable training stats per iteration to terminal (e.g. rays/s, PSNR)
-  enable_stats: True
-  stats_tracker:
-    max_history: 10
-    stats_to_track: [ITER_LOAD_TIME, ITER_TRAIN_TIME] # see mattport/utils/stats_tracker.py for options
-  # writer logs losses and images per iteration
-  writer: 
-    type: TensorboardWriter
-    save_dir: './'
-  # profiler logs run times of functions and prints at end of training
-  enable_profiler: True
-
-hydra:
-  run:
-    # Configure output dir of each experiment programmatically from the arguments
-    # Example "outputs/mnist/classifier/baseline/2021-03-10-141516"
-    dir: outputs/${experiment_name}/${method_name}/${now:%Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S}
-
-experiment_name: blender_lego
-method_name: vanilla_nerf
-
-data:
-  # dataset options
-  dataset:
-    data_directory: data/blender/lego_test
-    dataset_type: blender
-    downscale_factor: 4
-  
-  # validation options
-  validation_image_indices: [0]
-
-  # dataloader options
-  dataloader:
-    num_workers: 4
-    shuffle: true
-    num_images_to_sample_from: 1
-    num_rays_per_batch: 8
-    num_times_to_repeat_images: 40
-
-# machine options
-machine_config:
-  num_gpus: 0
-  num_machines: 1
-  machine_rank: 0
-  dist_url: auto
-
-# graph options
-graph:
-  model_dir: /tmp/mattport_models/
-  max_num_iterations: 10
-  steps_per_save: null
-  steps_per_test: 100
-
-  # pretrained loading options
-  resume_train:
-    load_dir: # pretrained model directory
-    load_step: # pretrained model's step number
-
-  network:
-    # NOTE(ethan): currently setting to nothing b/c we're still designing the config format...
-    _target_: mattport.nerf.graph.vanilla_nerf.NeRFGraph
-    near_plane: 1.0
-    far_plane: 6.0
-    num_coarse_samples: 4
-    num_importance_samples: 4
-  # optimizer options
-  param_groups:
-    fields:
-      optimizer:
-        type: Adam
-        lr: 1e-4
-      scheduler:
-        type: StepLR
-        step_size: 30 #  Period of learning rate decay.
-        gamma: 0.1 # Multiplicative factor of learning rate decay. Default: 0.1.
-    cameras:
-      optimizer:
-        type: SGD
-        lr: 1e-4
-      scheduler:
-        type: ExponentialLR
-        gamma: 0.1
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diff --git a/tests/test_run_train.py b/tests/test_run_train.py
index 966298c0a..93a8d99ca 100644
--- a/tests/test_run_train.py
+++ b/tests/test_run_train.py
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@ from scripts.run_train import main
 @pytest.mark.filterwarnings("ignore::DeprecationWarning")
 def test_run_train():
     """test run train script works properly"""
-    initialize(config_path="../configs/")
+    initialize(config_path="../configs/test/")
     conf = compose("test_dryrun.yaml")
     main(conf)