The Wyoming Wilderness Association, along with the National Outdoor Leadership School, and the Wyoming Outdoor Council are proud to support the Lander Running Club in hosting the annual Run the Red footrace, a race for a wild Wyoming landscape. 

 

Run the Red is Wyoming’s premier ultra marathon race dedicated to conserving the vast, rugged and historical landscape of the Red Desert. With race distances of 50K, 25K and a shorter kids race, runners will experience one of the last undeveloped high desert steppe ecosystems in the nation. Beginning in historic downtown South Pass City, the race traverses miles of wild open sagebrush country, dipping into wet meadows, around rocky outcrops, and along a section of the Oregon and Mormon Pioneer Trails. The race is held every year on Wyoming Public Lands Day and National Public Lands Day at the end of September. We invite runners, supporters, family and friends to experience the wild expanses of the Red Desert at Run the Red. 

 

Successfully hosting an ultra marathon is an immense amount of work; we are always looking for volunteers to support the Lander Running Club in putting on the event each year. For more information, or to sign up to volunteer, go to www.runthereddesert.com. 

 

Run the Red has always been more than just a race. Since its inception it has generated over 150 letters to the Governor of Wyoming asking for Red Desert protections, has raised over $12,000 for Red Desert conservation efforts, and helped a coalition of conservation non-profits garner over 40,000 comments in support of Red Desert protections outlined in the BLM’s draft Rock Springs Resource Management Plan. 

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​Check out Patagonia’s film “Unfenced” below to learn more about this iconic race through an iconic landscape.