Trail and ultra races across the Front Range and the Colorado high country. Hard, honest courses, one price that never goes up, and the kind of care on race day that lets you think about nothing but the trail.
Right now
Keep Rox, RoxA petition would rename Roxborough State Park. We think it should keep its name, and we have a better idea for honoring Governor Lamm. Comments to the Parks and Wildlife Commission are due October 29.Read and commentOpen for registration
The Sandstone Sixer
Sandstone Ranch Open Space, Larkspur · 6 hour timed
Six hours on the clock and an 8.4 mile loop through Sandstone Ranch Open Space south of Larkspur. You run as many loops as you want and stop when you are done. There is no DNF in a timed race.
Frozen Devil's Head
Rampart Range, Pike National Forest · 21.6 mi out and back
For one Saturday in January the closed Rampart Range Road is the racecourse. Out and back from the gate at Highway 67 to the Devil's Head trailhead, on snow, with no cars anywhere on it.
Popeye’s Backyard Ultra
Greenland Open Space, Larkspur · last runner standing
Every hour on the hour the bell rings and everyone still in it runs the same 4.167 mile loop on dirt. Finish inside the hour and you go again. Miss it and you’re done. It runs straight through the night on public land until one person is left. Twelve yards is 50 miles. Twenty-four is 100. Stop whenever you want to.
It’s the easiest ultra to start and the hardest one to finish. A yard in an hour is 14:24 a mile, so one yard is a trail race and most people walk away with a distance they’ve never run. Registered with the Backyard Ultra Association; every yard counts in the world rankings.
Park at the Greenland trailhead, I-25 exit 167. Crews set up a few steps from the corral with the aid station right there. Douglas County has permitted it to run through the night, so there is no hard stop.
The calendarevery race →
- Nov 72026 · Saturdayopen nowThe Sandstone Sixer
- Jan 92027 · Saturdayopen nowFrozen Devil's Head
- Apr 32027 · Saturdayopen nowPopeye's Backyard Ultra
- May2027Sharptail Marathon and Half
- June2027Downhill Half
- July 42027 · SundayThe Minuteman
- Aug 142027 · SaturdayRoxborough Ultras
- September2027The Handcart
- Oct 92027 · SaturdayChatfield Farms to Deer Creek
- Halloweenweekend 2027East/West
- November2027The Sandstone Sixer
- Summer2028The Tenth
When a race opens
How we run it
So far
Year one
The first Stoke race was the Roxborough Ultras. It ran from Roxborough State Park over Carpenter Peak and Sharptail Ridge, onto the Colorado Trail and back to Sharptail. It was put on with Revenant Running.
It comes back on Saturday, August 14, 2027.
What people said
- Great race, awesome course, wonderful community, and the aid stations were amazing.50K runner
- Very well organized all around.50 mile runner
- The camp host at Indian Creek wrote the Forest Service on his own to say the race was the new standard for events on the district.After the race, August 2026
Who is behind it
Founder and race director
Scott Schrader
Scott Schrader of The Stoke Fine Racing Events started The Stoke in September 2025 to share the trails he runs. Every course starts as a run, gets built with the people who manage the land, and gets marked on foot.
He still races. Five weeks after putting on the first Roxborough Ultras, he won the Run Rabbit Run 50 in Steamboat.
Partners
The Stoke Fine Racing Events is partnered with Revenant Running. These are the people and organizations behind every Stoke race.
Land partners · Colorado Parks and Wildlife · Douglas County Open Space · US Forest Service · Denver Water · Jefferson County Open Space · Denver Botanic Gardens
One more thing
A daily read, free
same forest
One page a day. Two people who never met, thinking about the same thing: a stoic and a monk, a poet and a physicist, a runner and a saint. A few lines from each and what they did about it.
Scott built it for his own mornings. It lives at stoketrailracing.com/same-forest and a new spread goes up every day. Today’s is below.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Walden, 1854
Lines from same forest, the ones on Scott Swaney’s page. This turns over on its own. Tap it to turn it sooner.
Questions go to Scott Schrader of The Stoke Fine Racing Events at Scott@StokeTrailRacing.com or 303-818-2239. On Instagram at @stoketrailracing.