Best Trail Running Shoes of 2026 (Updated May)
We’ve tested 100+ models to find the 13 best trail running shoes of 2026. See our top picks from Nike, Hoka, Altra, Brooks, and more, updated May 2026 with new tester notes.
We’re at the Broken Arrow Skyrace all weekend! Anna Gibson and Patrick Kipngeno won Friday’s Broken Arrow Ascent! Follow our Broken Arrow 23k live coverage on Sunday and read our 23k preview to see who’s racing.
Next week, we’ll have wall-to-wall coverage of the Western States 100, so stay tuned!
We’ve tested 100+ models to find the 13 best trail running shoes of 2026. See our top picks from Nike, Hoka, Altra, Brooks, and more, updated May 2026 with new tester notes.
A roundup of our favorite road-to-trail running shoes that can perform well on nearly any surface from brands including Altra, Brooks, Hoka, Nike, and more.
If you need gaiters to keep dirt and dust out of your shoes while running, check out this guide.
For its 20th anniversary, Inov8 rebrands, introduces a new shoe – the Mudtalon Speed — and looks toward its next 20 years.
A collection of 30 (mostly) trail shoes that are hitting shelves in the second half of 2021.
A collection of 50 (mostly) trail shoes that hit shelves in the first half of 2021.
Here at iRunFar, for the most part, we’ve been publishing two articles outlining each season’s new trail running shoes (and a few road shoes, for good measure) for over a…
Here at iRunFar, for the most part, we’ve been publishing two articles outlining each season’s new trail running shoes (and a few road shoes, for good measure) for over a…
What follows is a collection of iRunFar’s semi-annual trail shoe roundups for shoes released from 2009 through 2014. These originally appeared as stand alone articles, but we’ve combined them into…
A collection of over 30 (mostly) trail shoes that hit shelves in late 2020.
A collection of nearly 40 trail shoes that hit shelves by spring 2020.
A collection of 30 trail-worthy shoes that hit shelves in mid-2019.
A collection of 40+ trail shoes that hit shelves in late 2018 or early 2019.
A preview of trail shoes that hit shelves in late 2017 or early 2018.
