Saturday, December 3, 2022 • Laughlin, NV • Course Map
Note: A virtual option is available for this event. Registration details are included below.
Set for its 7th annual running this year in the cool, crisp and dry climate of Nevada’s Mojave Desert, the Run Laughlin Half Marathon unfolds along a point-to-point route that starts on Casino Row and features its biggest hills in the first three miles, with what organizers say are only gentling rolling hills or flat terrain after that.
You’ll run among the casinos of this town in the southernmost tip of Nevada, about 90 miles south of the lights of the Las Vegas Strip, toward the end of the race, but the course begins just west of town at Laughlin High School and starts out with a gentle uphill climb.
After that, about midway between miles 2 and 3 runners begin their descent along the Laughlin Highway into the Colorado River Heritage Greenway Park and the Bullhead Canyon Area, and in this stretch runners will get to be in two states at the same time on the stretch across the Davis Dam.
As the race organizers noted in an email to us: “We received permission from the Department of the Interior to lower the barricades on the Davis Dam allowing runners a unique opportunity to stand with one foot in Nevada and the other in Arizona and take a selfie with the beautiful Colorado River in the background.”
Once runners have gotten their selfie, they head back into Nevada, along the Colorado River in the race’s later miles toward Laughlin’s Casino Row.
Even more interesting, in Arizona the time is Mountain Standard Time – so runners will run “into the future” by one hour when they run into the Grand Canyon State, and then gain that hour back when they cross back into Nevada and head toward the finish line.
The race starts at Laughlin High School and finishes in front of the Laughlin Outlet Center on Casino Row, and the course time limit is 4 hours.
Race Weather & Climate
Nestled in the Mojave Desert near the California-Nevada state line, about an hour and half’s drive south from Las Vegas, Laughlin typically sees dry, mild weather in December, which has brought record temperatures here as low as 13ºF (in 1980) and as high as 83ºF (in 1977).
On race day (Dec. 3), the average low is 45ºF and the average high is 68ºF.
Past Results
- 2021 Run Laughlin Half Marathon Results
- 2019 Run Laughlin Half Marathon Results
- 2018 Run Laughlin Half Marathon Results
- 2017 Run Laughlin Half Marathon Results
- 2016 Laughlin/Bullhead Half Marathon Results
- 2015 Laughlin/Bullhead Half Marathon Results
Course Map
See the race route map for the Run Laughlin Half Marathon here.
Starting Time
- 7:00 AM – half marathon
- 7:50 AM – 12K
- 8:00 AM – 5K
Fees
- $110 and up for the half marathon
- $60 and up for the 12K
- $40 and up for the 5K
- $40 for the virtual half marathon or 5K
- prices subject to increase at any time
Registration
To reserve your spot in the 2022 running of the Run Laughlin Half Marathon or 5K race, register online at RunSignUp.com here.
Official Race Website
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