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Big Bend Ultra

Name: Big Bend Ultra
Start: 2026-01-18
End: 2026-01-18
Location: Terlingua, Texas

location_city Terlingua

location_on Texas

flag United States

calendar_today 18 Jan, 2026

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language Official Website

About the Event

In 2004, a wild idea was hatched: an ultra trail race in Big Bend. It had never been done. The logistics were impossible. Big Bend national and state parks are huge: over 300,000 acres and several hours from San Antonio. Water is scarce. Fuel is scarce. Transportation is scarce. The isolation also means it has lowest light pollution of any park in the lower 48 states: making it a fantastic place for stargazing. This was the beginning of a truly great event that has been held annually ever since. This year Carroll Voss, Erik Stanley, and the team of volunteers and competitors with Trail Roots are looking forward to the best race yet.

Races Offered

100K

Jan 18, 2026

straighten

Distance — 62 Miles

terrain

Type — Trail running

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05:30

55k

Jan 18, 2026

straighten

Distance — 55k

terrain

Type — Trail running

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07:00

35k

Jan 18, 2026

straighten

Distance — 19 Miles

terrain

Type — Trail running

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08:00

20k

Jan 18, 2026

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Distance — 12.5 Miles

terrain

Type — Trail running

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08:30

10k

Jan 18, 2026

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Distance — 6.1 Miles

terrain

Type — Trail running

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09:00

Weather Overview

These values represent the 3-year monthly averages for January in Terlingua.

Temp (°C)

Feels Like (°C)

thermostat 4.9° / 19.8°

wb_sunny 0.2° / 15.1°

Wind (km/h)

Humidity (%)

air 11.1 /

water_drop 35.0%

Temp (°C)

Feels Like (°C)

Wind (km/h)

Humidity (%)

thermostat 4.9° / 19.8°

wb_sunny 0.2° / 15.1°

air 11.1 km/h

water_drop 35.0%

About Terlingua

Terlingua is a mining district and census-designated place (CDP) in southwestern Brewster County, Texas, United States. It is located near the Rio Grande and the villages of Lajitas and Study Butte, Texas, as well as the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The discovery of cinnabar, from which the metal mercury is extracted, in the mid-1880s brought miners to the area, creating a city of 2,000 people. The only remnants of the mining days are a ghost town of the Howard Perry-owned Chisos Mining Company and several nearby capped and abandoned mines: the California Hill, the Rainbow, the 248, and the Study Butte mines. The mineral terlinguaite was first found in the vicinity of California Hill.