Welcome to the Rogue Gorge, offering incredibly beautiful and challenging 50K, Half Marathon & 12K trail races and NEW for 2025, a point-to-point, downriver 50 miler, all entirely along the iconic Upper Rogue Wild & Scenic River in the Southern Oregon Cascades! The Rogue Gorge Trail and Upper Rogue River Trail (a National Recreation Trail) provide miles of enchanting singletrack trails through the most vibrant fall foliage unmatched anywhere in Oregon, hugging tightly to the old growth forested bluffs above the famous river as it churns its way through collapsed lava tube chasms, cascading waterfalls and underground tunnels. We love hosting this event on the awe-inspiring Upper Rogue River!
The cataclysmic volcanic eruption of Mt. Mazama that created Crater Lake 7,700 years ago forever changed the lands we now know as Oregon. The legacy of the eruption can be found throughout Southern Oregon, and nowhere is it more evident than on the Upper Rogue River, just 20 miles west of Crater Lake National Park. Once buried by hundreds of feet of pumice, ash and lava after the eruption, the Rogue River has freed itself over the millennia through the relentless erosive power of its waters, creating a series of fascinating features in the process. The river thunders and boils through hard basalt lava and pumice canyons at Rogue Gorge and Takelma Gorge, disappears underground through ancient lava tubes at Natural Bridge and drops off numerous waterfalls in a lush, sweet-scented old growth forest of colossal Douglas fir, ponderosa pine and sugar pine.
Land Acknowledgement: We honor and recognize that we gather for this event on the traditional lands of the Takelma, Southern Molalla and Klamath peoples, who have occupied and stewarded these lands for countless generations. We respect their right to self-determination and their sacred connection to these lands and waters.
Oct 17, 2026
Distance — 80.5K
Type — Running
07:00
$0.00
Oct 17, 2026
Distance — 50K
Type — Running
08:30
$0.00
Oct 18, 2026
Distance — 21.1K
Type — Running
09:00
$0.00
Oct 18, 2026
Distance — 12K
Type — Running
09:30
$0.00
These values represent the 3-year monthly averages for October in Prospect.
Learn more about the host city, Prospect.
Prospect is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jackson County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It lies along Oregon Route 62 on the Rogue River, in the Rogue River – Siskiyou National Forest. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 449.
Read more launchOfficial finishing times from previous editions of 2026 Rogue Gorge — 2025.
| Place | Name | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | Aaron Day | — | |
| 🥈 | Adam Hanif | — | |
| 🥉 | Adam Oyster-Sands | — | |
| 4 | Alexandra Morrison | — | |
| 5 | Alicia Valentyn | — | |
| 6 | Amanda Erickson | — | |
| 7 | Amanda Shoote | — | |
| 8 | Andy Sutterfield | — | |
| 9 | Anne Fehrenbach | — | |
| 10 | Arthur Martineau | — | |
| 11 | Auriana Koutnik | — | |
| 12 | Austin Kelly | — | |
| 13 | Belen Michel Torino | — | |
| 14 | Ben Smith | — | |
| 15 | Benjamin Porter | — | |
| 16 | Blaine Scheidegger | — | |
| 17 | Brenna Bird | — | |
| 18 | Brooke Landoch | — | |
| 19 | Cary Schusterman | — | |
| 20 | Celeste Courson | — | |
| 21 | Chad Rowland | — | |
| 22 | Chris Towler | — | |
| 23 | Clinton Lindsey | — | |
| 24 | Connor Morozumi | — | |
| 25 | Cynthia Purington | — | |
| 26 | Dacia Grayber | — | |
| 27 | Daman Coffman | — | |
| 28 | Dani Walsh | — | |
| 29 | Daniel Pearman | — | |
| 30 | David Gissiner | — | |
| 31 | David Lelong | — | |
| 32 | Emily Olson | — | |
| 33 | Emily Pearman | — | |
| 34 | Emma Jacobs | — | |
| 35 | Felicia Gray | — | |
| 36 | Gaelen Watt | — | |
| 37 | Hana Morris | — | |
| 38 | Hannah Saffold | — | |
| 39 | Heidi Miller | — | |
| 40 | Israel Gonzalez | — | |
| 41 | Jack Ginter | — | |
| 42 | Jack Morrison | — | |
| 43 | Jarae Opitz | — | |
| 44 | Jason Gockel | — | |
| 45 | Jennifer Steward | — | |
| 46 | Jeremy Rockwell | — | |
| 47 | Jesse Graham | — | |
| 48 | Jill Mellecker | — | |
| 49 | Jillian Simons | — | |
| 50 | Anonymous Anonymous | — |
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