The Salt Flats 100 Mile race starts each year at 7:00AM on the Bonneville Speedway and runs out the famous Bonneville Speedway to join the roads and trails that traverse the “islands”… mountains that seem to float on the Salt Flats.
You’ll cross the infamous “Hastings Cutoff” trail that the Donner Party followed on their fateful journey to California.
The Event
The event starts with 17 miles on the actual Salt Flats, running the same course where the land-speed records are set and transitions onto the jeep roads and trails that take the runner up and over the mountains, and out to the extremely remote “Crater Island” section of the course.
Runners will spend several miles running through the lunar landscape and mud-flats where extremely few humans have ever set foot. The course ascends four different mountain passes providing amazing views of the surrounding desert landscape, and passes into the State of Nevada before returning to Utah and the finish.
There is a 36 hour cutoff for an official finish, and all finishers making the cutoff receive a finishers belt buckle.
