Trail Running Calendar Australia 2025-2026

The Wondai Country Running Festival is an annual competitive running event held in rural Wondai, Queensland, about three hours northwest of Brisbane. Founded in 2018, the festival takes place over the fourth weekend in June and offers a variety of race distances across two days. Saturday features fo..

The Rock ‘N Reef Trail Run, part of Australia's largest Trail Running Series, takes place in Bowen, Queensland, a scenic seaside town in the Whitsundays. The event offers three distances—6km, 10km, and 18km—featuring rugged, technical trails with rocky sections, steep climbs, fast descents, and coas..

Ultra Adelaide is a trail ultramarathon based at Pinky Flat in Adelaide, South Australia. It offers five distances: 21km, 34km, 50km, 100km and 100 miles. Runners follow the Heysen Trail from Kuitpo, over Mount Lofty, Cleland, Morialta and Black Hill, then descend along the River Torrens to finish b..

Raffertys Coastal Run is a coastal trail event held at Lake Macquarie, NSW, offering 12km, 22km and 36km courses, plus a Kids Fun Run and the Triple Trail Challenge hosted from Rafferty’s Resort. The course weaves lake shorelines with rugged coastal terrain, taking in Catherine Hill Bay and the Munm..

Elephant Trail Race is a multi-distance trail running event in Port Macquarie, Australia. The race offers 10 distances over three days, including 217 km, 160 km, and 100 km (solo and staged), plus 75 km (two-day staged), 50 km, 25 km, 13 km, 5 km, and a 2.5 km kids race. Runners gather at a race hub..

Trailsplus You Yangs Trail Running Festival takes place at You Yangs Regional Park, Little River, Victoria. It is the second of five races in the Trailsplus Mountain Trail Series. Distances range from 5 km to 100 miles, with 100 km and 100 miles offered as a Sat–Sun option, and other distances on th..

Goldfields Pipeline Marathon, held in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, offers four distances: the Kalgoorlie Case and Drill 50 km Ultramarathon, the Kalgoorlie Chiropractic 42 km Marathon, the Ellery Brookman Half Marathon, and the Retravision 10 km Fun Run or Walk. Start times and locations vary, but..

Australian Outback Marathon is held in the heart of Australia’s Red Centre, around Uluru and Kata Tjuta in Central Australia. The event offers marathon (42 km), half-marathon (21 km), 11-km and 6-km races, welcoming professionals, club runners, casual runners and beginners. The course is relatively..

Rainbow Beach Trail Festival is Queensland's stunning trail-running event held at Phil Rogers Park, Rainbow Beach on the Cooloola Coast. Runners choose from three distances: 11km, half marathon (21km), and marathon. The course travels through spectacular landscapes—coloured sand cliffs, lush forests..

Peaks & Trails is a challenging community-run trail running event held in Dunkeld at the heart of the Grampians National Park, Victoria. The weekend offers five distances: 6.4km, 13.5km, 20km, a 50km option, and the Mud-Dadjug Challenge. Courses combine sections of the Grampians Peaks Trail with pri..

Run Larapinta Stage Race is a four-day, four-stage trail running event along the Larapinta Trail in the MacDonnell Ranges near Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. It offers two courses: the Malbunka long course with four daily stages of roughly 19.5 km, 41 km, 33 km and 34 km, and the Nama..

Great White Ultra is a coastal trail running event held in Port Lincoln, South Australia. It offers four race distances: 100K, 60K, 24K, and 5K. The event promises a fearless, soul-filling atmosphere described as coastal trail running splendor.While the site doesn't provide detailed course maps on t..

The Waterous Trail on Foot (WTF) is Western Australia's original 100-mile trail ultra, held annually on the King's Birthday long weekend in September. The event features 100-mile, 50-mile, and 50-kilometer distances, with solo and relay options, all starting together and sharing the trail initially...

Halloween Dusk 2 Dawn is a dusk-to-dawn trail running event near Telegraph Point in the Port Macquarie region of New South Wales. The event features a 7km course through natural terrain, offering a Halloween-themed, night-time trail experience organized by Coastal Track and Trail Runners. The organi..

THE TRACK Australia is a 520-km, 10-day self-supported running challenge in the Australian Outback. The route runs in the Northern Territory, from Alice Springs toward Uluru, with the first half through West MacDonnell National Park and the second toward Finke Gorge and finally Uluru-Kata Tjuta Nati..