Is crew access allowed on the 50 Miler course?

Yes, crew access is allowed on the 50 Miler course. Crew may meet their runner only at Tiger Mine and American Flag Ranch aid stations, and at the finish. Crew may drop a runner at the Freeman Road start but cars may not park there. Runners are responsible for the actions of their crew.

Are drop bags allowed on the 50 Miler course?

Yes, drop bags are allowed on the 50 Miler course. Bags must be compact (smaller than a backpack), tied, and labeled with name, aid station initials and bib number. Left at Friday packet pickup or the staging area at Oracle State Park by 5:40am. Go to Mountain View, Tiger Mine and Kannally Wash; returned to the finish.

Are pacers allowed on the 50 Miler course?

Yes, pacers are allowed on the 50 Miler course. A pacer may join starting at mile 38.5. Pickup only at American Flag Ranch (mile 38.5). Pacer checks in, signs a waiver, gives emergency contact info and takes a pacer bib before leaving with the runner. Pacer may not carry items for the runner, must have a headlamp, should carry their own cup, and may use aid station food. Breaking a rule can mean disqualification.

What is the cutoff time for the 50 Miler course?

The overall time limit for the 50 Miler course is 15 hours from the start. Runners must leave an aid station before the cutoff time or they are pulled. No aid station closes until the last runner arrives, even after a missed cutoff.

Ultras · US · AZ

AZT Oracle Rumble

50 Miler · 50.4 miles

Registration open

Race dateJanuary 30, 2027

Start7:30am

Whenin 98 days

Who's going to AZT Oracle Rumble?

I'm running itPlan your weeks and your aid station times I'm crewingWhen to leave, where to park, at every stop I'm pacing or cheeringAsk your runner for their Out Here link

Free. You can start with nothing.

Official website Entry Results Aid stations Notify me if this race changes

Free, and always will be. NavRun makes money from race-day planning for runners who want it, never from this. Ultras change constantly, sometimes the morning of. Always confirm with the race director and the official website before you rely on anything here.

Distance The race

50.4 miles

Climb The race

6,914 ft

Descent The race

6,604 ft

High point

not checked yet

Time limit The race

15:00:00

Aid stations

Started

not checked yet

Finished

not checked yet

Finish rate

not checked yet

The course

Where it goes · 9 aid stations

Bus to the Freeman Road Trailhead, then south on the Arizona Trail through Oracle State Park to American Flag Ranch (mile 38.5), then back to the finish at Oracle State Park.

The guide says all listed distances are approximate. Four cutoffs plus the finish. Course is rolling; the guide says there are no major ascents or descents. Elevation totals come from the 2024 profile PDF linked as '50 Mile Elevation' on the course page.

The race

What this one is

Mostly singletrack through and around Oracle State Park, on remote sections of the Arizona Trail north of Tucson. A 50 Mile, 50K, half marathon and 12K, all rolling, with time cutoffs on every distance. The Arizona Trail Association benefits.

Getting in

Getting in Entry, lottery and what the race asks of you before race day.

Lottery: not checked yet

Lottery opens: not checked yet

Lottery draw: not checked yet

Field cap: not checked yet

Registration: UltraSignup runazt.org

Qualifying: not checked yet

Minimum age: not checked yet

Transfers: No runazt.org

Deferrals: not checked yet

Running, crewing, pacing or still deciding

How NavRun helps with AZT Oracle Rumble Fifteen hours, and four stations with a clock on each.

You are running it

You reach Tiger Mine, mile 27.7, before its 3:30pm cutoff, and you already knew that this morning.

An arrival time for all 7 stations, worked out from your own training.

Start free →

You are pacing

You are at American Flag Ranch, mile 38.5, warm and fed, and you know you have 12 miles ahead of you.

The same sheet says when they reach you.

You are deciding

You find out AZT Oracle Rumble is months of work away, not years, and you enter.

Put in a race you have already run. NavRun shows you where this one sits from where you are.

No account needed →

Crew access, pacers and drop bags

The rules that shape your day Anything marked "not checked yet" is a gap in what we hold, never a no from the race.

Crew allowed: Yes runazt.org

Vehicles per runner: not checked yet

Pacers: Yes, from mile 38.50 runazt.org

Muling: not checked yet

Drop bags: Yes runazt.org

Cupless: Yes runazt.org

Course marking: Fully Marked runazt.org

Night running: Yes runazt.org

Dogs: Not allowed runazt.org

Headphones: not checked yet

Crew rules: Crew may meet their runner only at Tiger Mine and American Flag Ranch aid stations, and at the finish. Crew may drop a runner at the Freeman Road start but cars may not park there. Runners are responsible for the actions of their crew. runazt.org

Pacer rules: Pickup only at American Flag Ranch (mile 38.5). Pacer checks in, signs a waiver, gives emergency contact info and takes a pacer bib before leaving with the runner. Pacer may not carry items for the runner, must have a headlamp, should carry their own cup, and may use aid station food. Breaking a rule can mean disqualification. runazt.org

Drop bag rules: Bags must be compact (smaller than a backpack), tied, and labeled with name, aid station initials and bib number. Left at Friday packet pickup or the staging area at Oracle State Park by 5:40am. Go to Mountain View, Tiger Mine and Kannally Wash; returned to the finish. runazt.org

Cutoff philosophy: Runners must leave an aid station before the cutoff time or they are pulled. No aid station closes until the last runner arrives, even after a missed cutoff. runazt.org

Aid stations

Every stop, and what you get there ● yes ○ no ? nobody has checked – does not apply to this race

Mile	Station	Cutoff	Crew access	Bag	Pacer	Med	To next
0.00	Freeman Road Trailhead NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	8.20
8.20	Beehive Well NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	7.20
15.40	Mountain View NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	●	?	?	7.70
23.10	Tucson Wash NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	4.60
27.70	Tiger Mine NoneSignal wrong?	3:30pm	●	●	?	?	4.10
31.80	Kannally Wash (southbound) NoneSignal wrong?	4:40pm	○	●	?	?	6.70
38.50	American Flag Ranch NoneSignal wrong?	6:40pm	●	○	●	?	6.70
45.20	Kannally Wash (northbound) NoneSignal wrong?	8:45pm	○	●	?	?	5.20
50.40	Finish - Oracle State Park NoneSignal wrong?	10:30pm	●	?	?	?	?

Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances: 50K (32.2 miles)
1/2 Marathon (12.9 miles)
12K (7.4 miles)

What it looks like out there

Somebody has been out there with a camera the tables say the climb is long. these say what long feels like.

One person has been out there with a camera or a microphone.

Social account

Oracle Rumble (Facebook)

Social account

These are other people's work and we link straight to them. Watching costs nothing and needs no account. More of them: every race we hold, on film.

Add to this page

What you know every one of these is read by a person before it changes anything

Ran this race? Tell the next runner what you know.

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Give it a short title: Optional. Something like “Cal Street, mile 62 to 78”.

What do you wish someone had told you? Write it the way you would say it to someone at the start line.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing. It only tells the next runner where this is coming from.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, and never shown on the page. Only so we can ask you a question about this note.

Website: Leave this field blank.

See something wrong or out of date? Suggest an edit.

This changes nothing on the page on its own. Somebody checks it against the race first.

Which detail? Optional. Filled in for you when you start from a specific line on the page.

What does the page say now? Copy it as it appears, so we can find it.

What should it say? The corrected value.

How do you know? Required. Where it came from: the race email, the runner manual, what you saw on the day.

A link that shows it: Optional.

Or a photo of it: Optional. A screenshot or a photo of the sign works.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, only so we can come back to you about this correction.

Which distance? Leave blank if it is about the whole race.

Which stop? Leave blank if it is not about one particular stop.

Website: Leave this field blank.

Seen a course preview or a film of this one? Send it over.

Somebody watches it before it goes anywhere near this page. What we are after is footage of this course, on the ground. If it would be just as true of any other race, it is not this.

What does it show that the page cannot? Required. A line is plenty. Where the climbs are, what the footing does, what the last twenty miles look like.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, and never shown on the page. Only so we can ask you a question about this one.

Where is it? A YouTube link, a race report, a photo gallery, whatever it is.

What kind of thing is it?

Who made it? Optional, and we credit them on the page.

Website: Leave this field blank.

Have the GPX? Send us the link.

We want the address of the file the race publishes, not the file. We download it from there so the page can say where the line came from.

Are you the race director? Get in touch and we'll make it right.

We read every one of these and we write back. Every fact here carries the source it came from, and the way a wrong one gets fixed is a person checking it against what you tell us.

Where this came from. Every fact on this page records its source and when we last checked it: 131 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.

43% of what we track for a course is filled in. The rest says "not checked yet" rather than guessing.

See something wrong or out of date? Suggest an edit
Ran this race? Tell the next runner what you know
Were you out there? Say which stops a text got out from
Got footage of this course? Send us the link
Are you the race director? Get in touch and we'll make it right.
Anything else: [email protected]

Ultras change. We will tell you when this one does.

Cutoffs move, races get postponed, lotteries open and close. We read the race's own sources and record where every fact came from. Put your email in and we will send you what changed, and where we read it.

No account, and nothing to cancel.

What happens to your email. Nothing else. I do not sell it, and I will not send you anything except this race changing. One click gets you out.

I keep this catalog because the information is scattered and hard to trust. Telling you when it moves is the same job.