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WhistleStop Marathon
Ashland, WI · Sports
- When
- October 10, 2026
- Where
- Bay Area Civic Center, 320 4th Ave W · Ashland · WI
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A point-to-point marathon, half marathon, 10K and 5K run along a former rail corridor from Iron River to Lake Superior's south shore in Ashland. It is a Boston Marathon qualifier known for its fall foliage course. The 2026 race is the 28th annual running.
The history within reach
- WhistleStop Marathonsame spot
A point-to-point marathon, half marathon, 10K and 5K run along a former rail corridor from Iron River to Lake Superior's south shore in Ashland.
- Book Across the Bay0.1 mi
A nighttime 10K ski and snowshoe race across frozen Chequamegon Bay, lit by roughly a thousand ice luminaries between Washburn and Ashland.
A three-day harvest festival celebrating the orchards of the Bayfield peninsula on Lake Superior.
- The Apostle Islands28 mi
Twenty-one islands of red sandstone with sea caves cut into the cliffs, which freeze in some winters into ice caves people walk out to over the lake.
Hurley boomed on iron and pine with a saloon for every few dozen residents, and lower Silver Street stayed wide open, gambling, brothels and all, decades after the rest of the Midwest closed down.