Revel Big Bear

Revel Big Bear takes place at Big Bear Lake, California, on November 7, 2026, with two distances: a half marathon (13.1 miles) and a marathon (26.2 miles). The course winds through the wooded mountain scenery of the San Bernardino Mountains, where the resort town sits, and runners stay in forest surroundings for most of the route. Big Bear Lake is within reach of Lake Arrowhead and Mount San Jacinto State Park if you are making a weekend of it.

Altitude is the thing to plan for here. Arriving a day or two early rarely helps and arriving a week early is impractical for most people, so the usual approach is to travel in the day before and accept that your effort will feel harder than the pace suggests. Run the early miles by feel, not by goal splits. For the marathon, a 16-week build with a weekly long run reaching 20 miles remains the backbone.