Boston, USA · Marathon (26.2 mi / 42.2 km)
Boston Marathon route poster
The oldest annual marathon, run point-to-point from Hopkinton to Boylston Street.
Upload your own GPX. No account, no sign-up.
The Boston Marathon course
The Boston Marathon runs point-to-point from rural Hopkinton east into the city, finishing on Boylston Street in Back Bay. The early miles drop fast through Ashland, Framingham, and Natick, which tempts runners into going out too hard.
The defining stretch is the Newton hills between miles 16 and 21, climbing four rises that end with Heartbreak Hill near mile 20. From the crest the course tips downhill again past Boston College and through Brookline before the final turns: right on Hereford, left on Boylston, and the finish.
A route this storied deserves to hang as more than a medal in a drawer. Cairn sets your actual Hopkinton-to-Boylston line over the real streets you ran.
Along the course
- Hopkinton start line
- The Wellesley scream tunnel
- Newton hills
- Heartbreak Hill (mile 20)
- Citgo sign at Kenmore Square
- Boylston Street finish
From the finish line to your wall, in three moves.
No app to learn, no measuring, no typing your stats. The route does the talking.
- 01
Drop your route
Upload the GPX from your watch or app. We read the line and the numbers in seconds.
- 02
Shape it
Place your route on the map, pick a style, set your labels, choose what the wall remembers. All on your phone.
- 03
We print and ship
Pressed on museum-grade paper with archival inks, framed if you like, sent to your door.
Made to outlast the memory.
We print on heavyweight museum-grade matte paper with archival pigment inks, the kind that hold their depth for decades without fading. Framed editions come in solid wood with an acid-free mat, ready to hang out of the box. Every order is made to order and shipped protected, never rolled loose in a tube.
- Paper
- Heavyweight museum-grade matte
- Inks
- Archival pigment, decades without fading
- Frames
- Solid wood, acid-free mat, ready to hang
- Shipping
- Made to order, protected, never rolled loose
Questions, answered.
Can I print my own Boston Marathon route?+
Yes. Export the GPX from your watch or Strava, drop it into the Cairn creator, and your exact Hopkinton-to-Boylston line is set over the real Boston street map. No account needed.
I ran a different year. Does that matter?+
Not at all. Your print is built from your own GPS file, so it reflects exactly the race you ran, your splits, your line, your finish.