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The course
Baltimore Running Festival Marathon
Baltimore, MD · Saturday, October 17, 2026
Baltimore Running Festival Marathon official site →registration and course detailsRoute statusa community trace of an earlier year's course, kept until a current trace exists; treat it as a preview. Camden Yards start matches; the race's current interactive map is login-walled Plotaroute
Accuracy check: drawn line is within 1.5% of the certified 26.2 miles; no part of the line passes through a building; 95% of it sits on a mapped road; closest it ever comes to a building wall is 0.9 m.
The elevation profile
1211 feet of total climb across the 26.2, between 3 and 329 feet of elevation. The biggest climb runs from mile 0 to 3.16, 293 feet up.
Mile by mile
Every mile of the course on the same vertical scale, so they compare at a glance. Net is what the mile does to your elevation; steepest fifth is the sharpest continuous fifth of a mile inside it, the same unit the colour strip above uses.
| Mile | Shape | Net | Elevation | Steepest fifth | Streets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | +82 ft | 121 ft | +2.6% | North Paca Street, South Paca Street, West Madison Street | |
| 2 | +63 ft | 184 ft | +2.0% | McCulloh Street | |
| 3 | +126 ft | 313 ft | +3.5% | McCulloh Street | |
| 4 | -13 ft | 306 ft | +2.7% | Buffalo Yard Road, Mansion House Drive, Greenspring Avenue | |
| 5 | -106 ft | 198 ft | -3.8% | East Drive, Mansion House Drive | |
| 6 | -14 ft | 182 ft | +4.3% | Wyman Park Drive, East Drive, Art Museum Drive | |
| 7 | -71 ft | 108 ft | -2.9% | Saint Paul Street, West 28th Street, North Howard Street | |
| 8 | -37 ft | 70 ft | -1.6% | Saint Paul Street | |
| 9 | -62 ft | 7 ft | -2.0% | Saint Paul Street, Light Street | |
| 10 | +15 ft | 22 ft | -1.8% | Key Highway, Light Street, Warren Avenue | |
| 11 | -1 ft | 21 ft | +0.7% | Key Highway East, Key Highway | |
| 12 | -5 ft | 16 ft | -0.6% | Key Highway East, Key Highway | |
| 13 | -9 ft | 7 ft | +1.9% | Key Highway, Light Street | |
| 14 | 0 ft | 6 ft | +0.1% | East Pratt Street, South President Street, Light Street | |
| 15 | +5 ft | 10 ft | +0.5% | Aliceanna Street, Lancaster Street, Boston Street | |
| 16 | +27 ft | 37 ft | +1.9% | South Linwood Avenue, Boston Street, O'Donnell Street | |
| 17 | +24 ft | 61 ft | +1.8% | North Linwood Avenue, South Linwood Avenue, East Madison Street | |
| 18 | +28 ft | 88 ft | -3.9% | East Madison Street, North Washington Street | |
| 19 | +77 ft | 166 ft | +3.5% | North Washington Street, Saint Lo Drive | |
| 20 | +0 ft | 165 ft | -4.8% | Hillen Road, Saint Lo Drive, Harford Road | |
| 21 | -2 ft | 163 ft | -0.9% | Lake Montebello Drive | |
| 22 | +40 ft | 201 ft | -2.8% | East 33rd Street, Lake Drive | |
| 23 | +7 ft | 207 ft | +1.2% | East 33rd Street, Guilford Avenue, East 29th Street | |
| 24 | -107 ft | 98 ft | -3.1% | North Howard Street, West 29th Street, East 29th Street | |
| 25 | +25 ft | 121 ft | +1.6% | North Howard Street, North Eutaw Street, North Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard | |
| 26 | -87 ft | 34 ft | -2.3% | North Eutaw Street, South Eutaw Street |
The course on a map
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Course geometry a community trace of an earlier year's course, kept until a current trace exists; treat it as a preview. City geometry is OpenStreetMap, ODbL. Weather normals are ten years of Open-Meteo reanalysis around race day at the start line. Confirm dates and registration on the official site. Spot an error? Tell us and we'll fix it fast.