09/11/2026
Consider this your last call. Bryce Canyon Ultras is just over 1 week away.
If you have been sitting on this one here is what that waiting costs you. A start line at historic Lucky 7 Ranch. Miles of winding singletrack across the Paunsaugunt Plateau, through pine forest, canyon and the hoodoos, tall fantastical rock spires standing where thousands of winters of freezing and thawing wore everything else away.
The 50K, 60K, 50 Mile, and 100 Mile take you down into it. These are the courses where you run for miles with hoodoos standing on both sides of you, not scenery off in the distance but the thing you are moving through. The 50 Mile collects the highlights of the entire course. The 100 Mile runs it twice, which means you see every section of it under two completely different skies, and anyone who has watched these formations at first light and again at dusk will tell you it is not the same rock.
The 30K and the Half Marathon are the introduction. The hoodoos sit out on the horizon rather than overhead, and the running is the point: real trail, big country, and the same plateau under your feet. The 30K climbs to the top of it, and the view from up there takes in most of what the longer courses spend all day inside.
Not racing this year? We still need people out there.
Volunteers work a shift and earn Aravaipa race credit toward a future event, and everyone who volunteers camps at Lucky 7 Ranch for free.
Take an aid station captain shift and it gets considerably better. Open to close, all 24 hours of it (sign up for 3 shifts) and you earn free entry to any Aravaipa event. Waitlisted races included. Cocodona is the only one it does not cover.
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