Whistlestop Marathon - Ashland, Wisconsin - Running

The Whistlestop Marathon is a Running race in Ashland, Wisconsin consisting of a Marathon.

The beautiful Memorial Medical Center WhistleStop Marathon and Half Marathon course begins in Iron River, Wisconsin and finishes in Ashland, Wisconsin on Lake Superioras south shore.

This fall marathon & half-marathon offers you spectacular fall colors, friendly aid stations and the best in pre-and post-race music. Itas easy to see why the WhistleStop is the Upper Midwestas fall classic. This promises to be a great experience for you.

The WhistleStop Marathon & Half-Marathon is a point-to-point course to be held on the Tri-County Corridor, a rail-trail paved with limestone gravel. The course offers a flat and fast running trail surface that is firm but is much more forgiving to the knees then asphalt. This is an excellent first-timer or personal record course!

The course stretches from two miles east of Iron River, Wisconsin and features ten re-decked railroad trestles, wetlands, trout streams, Chequamegon National Forest woodlands, dairy farms, residential neighborhoods and traffic-free quiet. Being a fall marathon, the course will feature some of the nationas finest autumn colors!