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Leadville Trail 100 Run

2026 Life Time Leadville Trail 100 Run presented by La Sportiva
Leadville Trail 100 Run (traditional course, not run in 2026) · 99.7M
Course changed
The route is not the one it was. Read the race's own notice before you plan. The Willow Fire (July 2026) burned Hagerman Pass Road, Sugarloaf Mountain and Powerline, all on the traditional course, and the USFS/BLM permitting agencies required a reroute. Race-director letters on 7/15/26 and 7/31/26 confirmed the season would proceed with 'courses [that] will look different' and promised final Run course maps by Friday 8/14/26 and crewing/aid-station info by Tuesday 8/18/26. The 2026 course now goes around Turquoise Lake by a different path and rejoins the traditional course at the Outward Bound aid station; Hagerman Pass Road, Sugarloaf and Powerline are not run in 2026.
Race dateAugust 22-23, 2026
Duration2 days
Whentoday
First held1983
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Distance 99.7M
Climb 15,492 ft
Descent not checked yet
High point 12,526 ft
Time limit 30:00:00
Aid stations 13
Started not checked yet
Finished not checked yet
Finish rate not checked yet
The course

Where it goes out and back · 13 aid stations

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The traditional Leadville Trail 100 Run course, most recently run in 2025 and described in the race's own (stale, still-live) '2025 RACE WEEK RUNDOWN' page block and its packing-list page. Out and back from 6th & Harrison in Leadville, over Mayqueen (mile 12.4), Hagerman Pass Road, Sugarloaf Mountain and the Powerline climb to Outward Bound, Half Pipe, Twin Lakes Village, and twice over Hope Pass to the Winfield turnaround. NOT run in 2026: Hagerman Pass Road, Sugarloaf Mountain and Powerline are inside the Willow Fire burn area and closed for the foreseeable future, so the 2026 race instead uses the rerouted course filed separately in this same edition (is_offered: true).

The race

What this one is

A 99.7-mile out-and-back trail ultramarathon starting and finishing at the corner of 6th Street and Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado, out to a turnaround at Winfield and back, crossing Hope Pass (12,500 ft) twice. Starts at 4:00 a.m. with a 30-hour limit; sub-25-hour finishers earn the big belt buckle, sub-30-hour finishers the small buckle.

First held in 1983 as the 'Race Across the Sky,' created by local miner Ken Chlouber with Merilee Maupin to bring tourism and economic revival to Leadville after the closure of the Climax Mine. 45 runners started the first race. It grew into the Leadville Race Series, which now also includes the Leadville Trail 100 MTB, Silver Rush 50, Leadville Trail Marathon & Heavy Half, Leadville 10K and the Leadville Stage Race. The Leadville Trail 100 Legacy Foundation, a nonprofit created by Chlouber and Maupin in 2002, funds community needs and an annual $2,000 scholarship to graduating Lake County High School seniors.

Getting in

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

Lottery
Yes
Lottery opens
Dec. 1, 2025 leadvilleraceseries.com
Lottery draw
Jan. 8, 2026 leadvilleraceseries.com
Field cap
not checked yet
Registration
Race website leadvilleraceseries.com
Qualifying
not checked yet
Minimum age
18 leadvilleraceseries.com
Transfers
No leadvilleraceseries.com
Deferrals
Yes leadvilleraceseries.com
Crew, 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 leadvilleraceseries.com
Vehicles per runner
not checked yet
Pacers
Yes, from mile 61.80 leadvilleraceseries.com
Muling
not checked yet
Drop bags
Yes leadvilleraceseries.com
Cupless
not checked yet
Course marking
Fully Marked leadvilleraceseries.com
Night running
Yes leadvilleraceseries.com
Dogs
not checked yet
Headphones
not checked yet
Crew rules
4 official crewing locations (vs. 3 on the 2026 rerouted course): Outward Bound, Pipeline, Twin Lakes Village, and Mayqueen. Runners pass each twice. Wristbands: Twin Lakes green, Mayqueen blue, pacer yellow; kids 10 and under exempt. At Mayqueen, only 4 crew members + 1 pacer allowed per athlete, traffic moves clockwise around the lake only, and access is from the south/Turquoise Lake dam side. Twin Lakes has no driving access; crews shuttle from Outward Bound. leadvilleraceseries.com
Pacer rules
Pacers join beginning at Twin Lakes Village inbound, mile 61.8 (this is the traditional course's own inbound mileage to Twin Lakes; the 2026 rerouted course's equivalent is mile 64, see _meta.notes). Same bib, waiver and burro rules as the 2026 course. leadvilleraceseries.com
Drop bag rules
Same drop-bag mechanics as the 2026 course, but 5 traditional locations: Mayqueen, Outward Bound, Half Pipe, Twin Lakes, Winfield. leadvilleraceseries.com
Cutoff philosophy
Same as the 2026/offered course: 25-hour big buckle, 30-hour small buckle/official finish, gun-time cutoffs vs. chip-time buckle eligibility. leadvilleraceseries.com
Aid stations

Every stop, and what you get there ● yes   · no   ? nobody has checked

Mile Station Cutoff Crew Bag Pacer Med To next
0.00 Start / Finish (6th St & Harrison) ? ? ? ? ? 12.40
12.40 Mayqueen 7:45am ? ? 10.90
23.30 Outward Bound 10:00am ? ? 5.90
29.20 Half Pipe 11:30am · ? ? 8.70
37.90 Twin Lakes Village 1:30pm ? ? 5.20
43.10 Hope Pass (outbound)
12,526 ft
4:00pm · · ? ? 6.70
49.80 Winfield 6:00pm · ? ? 6.90
56.70 Hope Pass (inbound)
12,526 ft
? · · ? ? 5.10
61.80 Twin Lakes Village (inbound) 10:15pm ? 8.50
70.30 Half Pipe (inbound) 1:15am · ? ? 5.90
76.20 Outward Bound (inbound) 3:00am ? ? 11.00
87.20 Mayqueen (inbound) 6:30am ? ? 12.50
99.70 Finish (6th St & Harrison) 10:00am ? ? ? ? ?
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