REVEL Mt Charleston Marathon & Half Marathon

REVEL Mt Charleston Marathon & Half Marathon is run in the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, on April 3, 2027, with the marathon (26.2 miles) and the half marathon (13.1 miles) both starting at 6:00 a.m. The course is predominantly downhill, beginning high on Mount Charleston and dropping through forested terrain before reaching the valley floor, a landscape that has little to do with the desert most people picture around Las Vegas.

That net-downhill profile is why runners travel for this race: it is built for personal bests and, for marathoners, for qualifying attempts. It also punishes anyone who has not prepared for it. Sustained descending loads the quadriceps hard, so build downhill running into your training for at least six to eight weeks beforehand, and hold your pace back over the opening miles even though the gradient invites the opposite. The half is the gentler way to use the same course if you would rather not spend three or four hours braking.