How far is the Peak District Challenge?

The Peak District Challenge offers 4 distances: 100km (62.1 miles), 50km (31.1 miles), 25km (15.5 miles), 10 Mile (16.1 km).

Is the Peak District Challenge course marked?

Yes, the course is marked. Navigation skills are not required.

Ultra Challenge Peak District Challenge

Bakewell Basecamp, DerbyshireSat, 3 Jul – Sun, 4 Jul 2027

A hundred kilometres of the southern Peak District on loops from Bakewell, or fifty or twenty-five.

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Train for it: routes near the start

Routes starting within 20 km of Bakewell Basecamp, Derbyshire, nearest first. Each one has a free GPX file and a TRP grade, so you can rehearse the ground before race day.

HARD

Burbage, Stanage Edge and Higger Tor from Grindleford

24.0km · 711m climb · Loop · 11km away

You can get here by train and step off the platform onto the route. Four of the best gritstone edges in the country in one loop, with Higger Tor and Carl Wark saved for 19km in when your legs are already talking.

VERY HARD

White Peak Six Dales Loop

42.5km · 442m climb · Loop · 11km away

You connect a whole run of limestone dales in one loop, swapping the gritstone moors of the Dark Peak for clear rivers, green valleys and dry-stone-walled plateau.

VERY HARD

The Grand Edale Circular

28.7km · 1,344m climb · Loop · 16km away

The full Peak District experience — deep peat bog, gritstone edges, and those big Kinder views. Earn the ridge on the way back in.

HARD

Stanage Edge and Robin Hood's Cave from Ecclesall Woods

24.6km · 568m climb · Loop · 17km away

A genuine city-to-gritstone-and-back run. You leave a suburban car park, touch the Stanage trig and Stanedge Pole, and come home through the Porter Valley without ever getting in a car.

MODERATE

Win Hill and Ladybower Loop

13.1km · 282m climb · Loop · 17km away

Win Hill's summit is a bare gritstone knuckle with one of the widest views in the Dark Peak - Kinder, the Derwent moors and the whole Hope Valley at once - for a climb you can fit into a morning.

VERY HARD

Edale Skyline

29.5km · 861m climb · Loop · 18km away

You spend almost the whole loop on the skyline itself, linking gritstone edges and summits with the Edale valley dropping away below you the entire way round.

All routes near Bakewell →All Peak District routes →

How to enter

Sat, 3 Jul – Sun, 4 Jul 2027 · Entries open

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Common questions

: The Peak District Challenge offers 4 distances: 100km (62.1 miles), 50km (31.1 miles), 25km (15.5 miles), 10 Mile (16.1 km).
: No course file for the Peak District Challenge yet, so there's no measured climb here. When Ultra Challenge publish one, this fills in.
: Not graded yet. A TRP grade is worked out from distance and climb measured off the course file, and there isn't one for the Peak District Challenge yet.
: Yes, the course is marked. Navigation skills are not required.
: We don't hold a compulsory kit list for the Peak District Challenge. Ultra Challenge confirm mandatory kit in their race information, usually in the final instructions.
: We don't hold published time limits for the Peak District Challenge. If Ultra Challenge set cut-offs, they'll be in the race information.
: We don't hold a checkpoint list for the Peak District Challenge. What's on the table varies a lot between races, so check the Ultra Challenge race information rather than turning up expecting food.
: Not yet — we don't hold a course file for the Peak District Challenge. Some organisers only send the GPX to entrants. If we get one, it goes up free, with no sign-up.
: Sat, 3 Jul 2027. Entries open.