Baton Rouge Beach Half Marathon

Course highlights

The Baton Rouge Beach Half Marathon course, like the full marathon, follows an out-and-back loop course that starts and finishes at “Baton Rouge Beach,” or the lakeshore at Stanford Park just off Stanford Avenue, on the shore of University Lake. From there, the course follows a clockwise route through the LSU campus and the neighborhoods surrounding the lake, passing by local sights and landmarks like LSU’s Tiger Stadium and Bernie Moore Track Stadium as well as Magnolia Mound Park on the western edge of the campus. After making their way through campus along Lakeshore Drive and Dalrymple Drive, runners cross over a bridge that takes them into Baton Rouge’s Brooks Park and the City Park Golf Course, taking them along mostly tree-lined streets that offer shade from the sun. From there, the course winds through the neighborhoods just north of the lake, and then turns south again on Parker Street for the last third of the race, which winds along East Lakeshore Drive toward the finish line back at Stanford Park. Once they reach the “Baton Rouge Beach,” those running the half-marathon have completed their race, while those running the full make a second loop around the course.