Las Vegas Half Marathon

Course & Elevation

The Rock 'n' Roll Las Vegas half marathon is an evening race on the closed Las Vegas Strip, held on a Sunday in late February. It is part of the Rock 'n' Roll Running Series, which describes the weekend as a running party: a half marathon and a 10K on the Sunday, and a 5K on the Saturday that finishes on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas. The half marathon starts on Las Vegas Boulevard at New York-New York and finishes on Las Vegas Boulevard at The Bellagio, with the entire course on the Strip. The start is at 4:30 pm, so most of the field runs into the evening under the neon lights, and the time limit is four hours. The event traces its origin to a marathon run in and around Las Vegas since 1967. It moved to the Strip in 2005 and became a Rock 'n' Roll Running Series race in 2009. It became a night race in 2011. From 2022 the full marathon was cut to a half marathon and the event moved to February. The series' own course page notes that maps show the most recent verified information and that courses are subject to change. Entry is online through the series' registration page.