Black Canyon Ultras · Trail
Black Canyon 100K
AZ · Feb 13, 2027
2027 edition
Registration open
Feb 13, 2027 · Closes Feb 6, 2027 · Entry USD 365 (excludes tax, UltraSignup fees)
Overview
- Distance
- 100K
- Course shape
- Point-to-point
- Elevation gain
- 5.2k ft
- Gain / mile
- 84 ft
- High point
- 4,199 ft
- Cutoff
- 20 hours
What this race is really like
RaceBound insight
Black Canyon 100K is a 100K point-to-point trail race in AZ. On paper it reads fast: about 5,219 ft of climbing against 7,337 ft of descent.
Built from official course data
Where it gets hard
Do not judge Black Canyon by its net-downhill profile. The opening miles encourage fast running, while later sections become rockier, more winding, and include meaningful late climbing.
Editorial summary · not an official race claim and not runner consensus
Terrain
- Terrain
- desert, singletrack, rocky, rolling, technical sections, net downhill, river crossings
Runnable in parts, but recurring community feedback describes the later terrain as deceptively technical and harder than the elevation profile suggests.
Editorial summary · not an official race claim and not runner consensus
Climbing
- Total gain
- 5.2k ft
- Total loss
- 7.3k ft
Altitude
Relevance: low
- High point
- 4,199 ft
Entry and registration
- Registration status
- Registration open
- Entry type
- Open entry
- Registration closes
- Feb 6, 2027
- Entry price
- USD 365 (excludes tax, UltraSignup fees)
- Capacity
- 1,200
- Western States qualifier
- Yes
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