Here’s your chance to run where the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play (oh, give me a home etc.). Sing along! Antelope Island State Park is on the largest island (28,000 acres) in the Great Salt Lake. There are about 45 miles of trails there with 500 head of buffalo to dodge. Sometime they move, sometimes they don’t. Anyone in the Salt Lake area who’s run these trails enjoys them.

There are four big trail running events put on each year.

Antelope Island Buffalo Run
25K, 50K, 50-mile, 100-mile
2014 date TBD

Get all the Buffalo Run race information here.


Antelope Island 50K and 100K Trail Run
October 19, 2013

Get all the 50K and 100K race information here.

This Antelope Island 100K will start at 6 a.m. on Saturday, October 19th at the White Rock Bay trailhead. The Antelope Island 50K will start at 8 a.m. at the same location. This is the same place as the Buffalo Run start. The time limit will be 16 hours for the 100K and 14 hours for the 50K. There will not be an early start option. The course is pretty easy.

Also, the number of entries will be limited to a total of around 150 runners. I want to keep this race on the small side. We’ll have a wait list for those who procrastinate and don’t get their entry in on time.

This is three weeks after the Bear and six weeks after Wasatch, plenty of time to recover and get in a fall race before the snow flies.

Mountain View Trail Half Marathon
October 12, 2013, 9:00 a.m.

Get all the half marathon race information here.

We’ll start at White Rock Bay near the trailhead. The course will then take you on some dirt roads for about 2-3 miles so the massive crowd of runners can string out a little bit, then you’ll bushwhack for about a quarter mile down the hillside to the Mountain View trail, then turn right and run to the Fielding Garr Ranch at the south end of the island. That’s all there is to it. Pretty easy.

Frary Peak Hill Climb

November 9th, 2013, 9:00am

Registration should be open by mid June here. www.ultrasignup.com

Get all the Frary Peak race information here.

Ok, this is a new race on the island.  Just like the name says, it’s a climb.  Roughly 1500’ in just under three miles.  Then back down.  Not a PR course by any means.