Wasatch Front 100 2026

The formidable rocky monster of Utah awaits you: the Wasatch mountain range in the United States 🇺🇸. The festivities’ menu gives you absolutely no gifts and offers one of the most brutal challenges in North America. The single format lines you up for the terrifying distance of 100 miles (just over 160 km) with an astronomical elevation gain hovering around 7,300 mD+ ⛰️. Fair warning: your quads are going to quite literally catch fire on this profile of rare physical demands 💥.

The playground feels like a real roller coaster linking the town of Kaysville to the Olympic venue of Soldier Hollow. Your progress swings violently between steep, wind-swept ridgelines and deep, highly technical canyons 🏜️. The route’s harshness is marked by extreme temperature swings, going from a fearsome scorching heat by day to a terrifying freezing cold at night. The wild imprint peaks during the solitary crossing of the vast aspen forests, where only the beam of your headlamp pierces the total darkness 🌌.

Put the big commercial circus out of your mind: here, resilience, silence, and roughness lay down their relentless law 🤫. The outstanding volunteer crews, stationed in remote areas, bend over backward to patch up battered legs. An unshakable aura of respect takes hold on the ridgelines to forge in you the soul of an inexhaustible warrior 🛡️.

Save a bit of vital strength to explore the region’s magnificent scenery within about an hour’s drive. Take your family in the footsteps of world sports history by visiting the spectacular Utah Olympic Park in the famous town of Park City ⛷️. Also point your partner toward the unreal landscapes of Antelope Island State Park to watch huge herds of bison roaming along the salty shores of the Great Salt Lake 🦬. Pray for the draw, lock in your preparation, and come conquer this absolute legend of the West! 🔥