2027 LA Marathon - Mar 7

The Stadium to the Stars point-to-point course runs from Dodger Stadium to a finish on Santa Monica Boulevard at Avenue of the Stars in Century City (the route moved off its old Santa Monica Pier finish after 2019). It tours Chinatown, Echo Park, Silver Lake, Hollywood, the Sunset Strip and Beverly Hills before the long western run-in. Net downhill on paper, but deceptive: a stiff early climb past Walt Disney Concert Hall and rollers on Temple Street stack up the toughest grade in the first few +291m elevation