Missoula Marathon

Course & Elevation

The Missoula Marathon is a point-to-point road marathon in Missoula, Montana, held on a Sunday in late June as part of a race weekend. It starts at 6:00 a.m. in Frenchtown, outside the city, and runs through countryside before finishing in historic downtown Missoula, just past the Beartracks Bridge, formerly the Higgins Avenue Bridge. The organisers describe the course as flat, fast, USATF certified and a sanctioned Boston Qualifier, with a hill at the halfway point. Runners ride buses to the start from near the Adams Center at the University of Montana. The weekend also includes a half marathon, the Tony Banovich 5K, a Beer Run and a Kids Marathon. The marathon field is limited to 2,150 entries. The courses officially close at 1:30 p.m., and aid stations and road closures follow a 7.5-hour limit for the marathon. The first Missoula Marathon was run in 2007. The men's course record is 2:20:27, set by Matthew Adams in 2014, and the women's record is 2:43:30, set by Mariah Bredal in 2024; both are listed as Montana soil records.