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Ultras · US · NM

Mt. Taylor 50k

Ran · this year's race is done.
Race dateSeptember 26, 2026
Start6:30am
When28 days ago

Who's going to Mt. Taylor 50k?

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 Results Aid stations Notify me if this race changes
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Distance
30.28 miles
Climb
6,405 ft
Descent Our math
6,153 ft We worked this out from what the race prints.
High point The race
11,301 ft
Time limit The race
11:00:00
Aid stations
7
Started
not checked yet
Finished
not checked yet
Finish rate
not checked yet
The course

Where it goes loop · 7 aid stations

Course line from the race's own GPX. Source file. Recorded 2026.

A mountain ultra that starts and finishes at high altitude. Runners climb to the 11,301-foot summit of Mt. Taylor through pine and aspen, open alpine meadows and sections of the Continental Divide Trail.

The race describes the terrain as a mix of singletrack, forest roads, rugged mountain trail, rocky ridgelines and open high-country terrain. Cold, wind, sun, rain or thunderstorms, mud and loose rock are all possible, and the air is thin. If lightning is near the peak, runners wait at Gooseberry aid station for 30 minutes after the last strike.

The race

What this one is

A nonprofit, runner-built 50K near Grants, New Mexico. It starts and finishes at Rock Tank Shelter in the Cibola National Forest and climbs to the 11,301-foot summit of Mt. Taylor, known as Tsoodzil in Diné tradition. The race supports Navajo YES.

The race began with a small group of local runners in Albuquerque who wanted to share the beauty, challenge and solitude of Mt. Taylor with other runners.

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 ultrasignup.com
Qualifying
Any runner who has finished the Mt. Taylor 50k five or more times must volunteer or do trail work for the race before running again. ultrasignup.com
Minimum age
not checked yet
Transfers
No ultrasignup.com
Deferrals
not checked yet
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
not checked yet
Vehicles per runner
not checked yet
Pacers
not checked yet
Muling
not checked yet
Drop bags
Yes mttaylor50k.com
Cupless
not checked yet
Course marking
Fully Marked mttaylor50k.com
Night running
not checked yet
Dogs
not checked yet
Headphones
not checked yet
Crew rules
The race is designed primarily as a self-supported trail race with aid-station support. Crew access is limited, and crew should not assume they can drive to aid stations or meet runners along the course. The race committee gives specific crew access information on request, and crew who are unsure where they can go should ask a race volunteer. mttaylor50k.com
Pacer rules
not checked yet
Drop bag rules
Drop bags are accepted at the Rock Tank Shelter aid station only. Label the bag with runner name and bib number. mttaylor50k.com
Cutoff philosophy
The Rock Tank cutoff is the race's halfway check. Runners who are very close on time are asked to talk with a race director before continuing. mttaylor50k.com
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 Start/Finish
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ? ● ? ? 4.40
4.40 Ridgeline
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ? ○ ? ? 6.10
10.50 Spud Patch
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ? ○ ? ? 6.10
16.60 Rock Tank
NoneSignal wrong?
 12:00pm ? ● ? ? 4.10
20.70 Gooseberry
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ? ○ ? ? 4.20
24.90 Caldera Rim
NoneSignal wrong?
 3:30pm ? ○ ? ? 6.10
31.00 Finish
NoneSignal wrong?
 5:30pm ? ? ? ? ?
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.

2 people have been out there with a camera or a microphone.

Social account

Mt. Taylor 50k on Facebook

Social account
Social account

Mt. Taylor 50k on Instagram

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

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Leave blank if it is not about one particular stop.

Optional. Something like “Cal Street, mile 62 to 78”.

Write it the way you would say it to someone at the start line.

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

Optional.

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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.

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

Copy it as it appears, so we can find it.

The corrected value.

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

Optional.

Optional. A screenshot or a photo of the sign works.

Optional, and it decides nothing.

Optional.

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

Leave blank if it is about the whole race.

Leave blank if it is not about one particular stop.

Leave this field blank.

Were you out there? Say which stops a text got out from.

Nobody sees it until we have read it. No account, no sign-in.

Optional, and it decides nothing.

Which stops did a text get out from?

Leave a stop blank if you did not try, or do not remember.

  • Start/Finish mile 0.0
  • Ridgeline mile 4.4
  • Spud Patch mile 10.5
  • Rock Tank mile 16.6
  • Gooseberry mile 20.7
  • Caldera Rim mile 24.9
  • Finish mile 31.0
Optional. Never shown.
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.

Required. A line is plenty. Where the climbs are, what the footing does, what the last twenty miles look like.

Optional, and it decides nothing.

Optional.

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

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

Optional, and we credit them on the page.

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.

The page or file on the race's own site.

Optional, and only so we can ask you a question about it.

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.

Required, because this is a conversation and we write back.

Tell us what is wrong, out of date, or missing on this page. We read every one of these and we will get back to you.

Optional.

So we know who we are writing back to.

Optional. Director, assistant, comms, whoever you are.

Leave this field blank.

Where this came from. Every fact on this page records its source and when we last checked it: 80 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.
28% 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.

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.