Aravaipa Running and Mountain Outpost confirmed on Wednesday that they will run a continuous 125-hour livestream of the sixth Cocodona 250, beginning at 5 a.m. Pacific on Monday morning when the field walks down the dirt approach at Deep Canyon Ranch in Black Canyon City. The free YouTube stream — the longest single-event broadcast on the trail-running calendar — will cover every aid station the runners hit from the Sonoran desert floor through Sedona's red rock and up to Heritage Square in downtown Flagstaff, until the 10 a.m. Saturday cut-off.
Cocodona has steadily evolved the format of its broadcast since the inaugural 2021 race. This year's signal cuts between roving production teams at Crown King, Whiskey Row in Prescott, Mingus Mountain, the Sedona arch finish for the 125-mile Sedona Canyons race, and the marquee Walnut Canyon and Heritage Square aid points. GPS tracking from each runner's mandatory tracker is overlaid on a live elevation profile, and segment splits update automatically as runners punch in. Aravaipa says interview pods will run at every major aid station with at least one of the lead pack expected to roll through within twenty minutes of any given hour.
The 404-strong field is the deepest Cocodona has ever convened. Courtney Dauwalter, returning from her UTMB-Hardrock-Western States triple-crown season, headlines a women's start list that also includes 2024 winner Rachel Entrekin, ten-time Cocodona finisher Heather Anderson, defending Coastal 50K champion Brittany Peterson and previous podium finisher Britta Christiansen. The men's race is led by 2025 champion Dan Green, with Joe McConaughy, Cole Watson, Sebastian Salsbury and inaugural-edition winner Michael Versteeg — racing his third Cocodona — anchoring the chase pack. Cut-off slack remains 125 hours, but the leaders are expected through the line on Wednesday afternoon.
Aravaipa has also added a sister Sedona Canyons 125-mile race, starting at 6 a.m. Tuesday, which uses the second half of the Cocodona course and folds neatly into the same broadcast window. Coverage of the 125 will piggyback on the Cocodona feed, with split-screen segments at the shared aid stations of Mingus Mountain and Munds Park. Both races run together for the final fifty miles, meaning the on-course passing and tactical decisions will get more interesting on Wednesday and Thursday, not less, even as the lead Cocodona runners begin to pull clear of the rest of their own field.
For viewers without 125 hours to spare, the production team will also clip and post nightly highlight reels — typically 20–25 minutes — that condense each calendar day's racing into one digestible recap. The official Cocodona tracker site at cocodona.com/live will continue to host the embed alongside the GPS tracker, splits, weather and aid-station webcams. The forecast through Tuesday calls for daytime highs in the high seventies through Black Canyon City and Cottonwood, with temperatures dropping into the high thirties overnight at Mingus Mountain — broadly favourable conditions, although the desert opening twenty miles will still be the field's first big test of pace and salt management.