2027 Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon

231m

The course gathers at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and the 6:30 a.m. gun follows 168 seconds of silence for the 168 people killed in the 1995 Murrah Building bombing. From downtown the route runs through Bricktown and Deep Deuce, passes behind the Oklahoma State Capitol, and heads north into the leafy Nichols Hills and The Village neighborhoods before returning past Lake Hefner and down Classen Boulevard to finish at Scissortail Park. The terrain is gently rolling rather than flat, with about +231 m (758 ft) of total climbing and a nearly matching descent — including the famous, crowd-packed Gorilla Hill around the midpoint. It is USATF-certified and a Boston Marathon qualifier, so finish times count toward Boston with no downhill adjustment; the rolling profile and frequent plains wind make it a meaningful, well-supported race rather than a flat PR machine. 168 banners line the route, and the finish area reads the names of all 168 victims.