2027 Buffalo Marathon - May 30

A genuinely flat, fast city loop and one of the strongest Boston qualifiers in the Northeast. The course starts and finishes downtown near the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center on Delaware Avenue, then heads out to LaSalle Park and runs roughly seven miles along the Lake Erie waterfront — past the Erie Basin Marina, Canalside and KeyBank Center — before swinging back through downtown around Niagara Square and the landmark Art Deco Buffalo City Hall. From there it climbs gently north up Delaware +178m elevation