Dallas’ largest and Texas’ longest running marathon, the BMW Dallas Marathon, is happening this weekend. Tens of thousands of spectators are expected to flood the city’s streets Saturday and Sunday.
A cold front is also expected to move in Saturday evening, dropping temperatures near freezing before warming up to 44 degrees as a high on Sunday.
Streets throughout the city on both days will be jam-packed with road closures. Here’s what you can expect.
Road closures
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The marathon uses a rolling course closure method to reduce traffic disruptions, which means major intersections will stay open until just before the first runner approaches and will only reopen after the last runner passes through.
Various roads will be closed throughout downtown on Saturday from about 7:30 to 10:03 a.m. and on Sunday from 7:30 a.m. to roughly 3:41 p.m.
Roads in Highland Park and Uptown will be closed from 7:43 to 2:29 p.m.; from 8:13 a.m. to 2:24 p.m. in Lakewood Heights; and from 8:23 a.m. to 1:55 p.m. in White Rock Lake.
Marathon hosts are encouraging drivers to, when in doubt, assume they won’t be able to cross or drive along the course route. Traffic updates will be available on Google Maps and Waze.
Marathon route
Here’s a map of the BMW Dallas Marathon route on Saturday.
Here’s a map of the marathon route on Sunday.
For more information, visit dallasmarathon.com.
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