The tracks (or courses) are the locations in Mario Kart on which races are held. Many have been revamped or featured in Retro cups.

Contents 1 Original cups 1.1 Mushroom Cup 1.2 Flower Cup 1.3 Lightning Cup 1.4 Star Cup 1.5 Special Cup 1.6 Original battles 2 Retro cups 2.1 Shell Cup 2.2 Banana Cup 2.3 Leaf Cup 2.4 Lightning Cup 2.5 Retro battles 3 Comments

Original cups

Mushroom Cup

Mushroom Cup is the easiest Grand Prix with the easiest tracks to complete. It is the first cup in every game. It always starts with a circuit, often Luigi Circuit.

Super	64	Super Circuit	Double Dash!!	DS	Wii	7
Mario Circuit 1	Luigi Raceway	Peach Circuit	Luigi Circuit	Figure-8 Circuit	Luigi Circuit	Toad Circuit
Donut Plains 1	Moo Moo Farm	Shy Guy Beach	Peach Beach	Yoshi Falls	Moo Moo Meadows	Daisy Hills
Ghost Valley 1	Koopa Troopa Beach Koopa Beach	Riverside Park	Baby Park	Cheep Cheep Beach	Mushroom Gorge	Cheep Cheep Lagoon Cheep Cheep Cape
Bowser Castle 1	Kalimari Desert	Bowser Castle 1	Dry Dry Desert	Luigi's Mansion	Toad's Factory	Shy Guy Bazaar
Mario Circuit 2	N/A

Flower Cup

The Flower Cup is the second cup in every Mario Kart game. The courses are a little more difficult than those of the Mushroom Cup. All games feature a Mario track in this cup except for Mario Kart DS.

Super	64	Super Circuit	Double Dash!!	DS	Wii	7
Choco Island 1	Toad's Turnpike	Mario Circuit	Mushroom Bridge	Desert Hills	Mario Circuit	Wuhu Loop Wuhu Island Loop
Ghost Valley 2	Frappe Snowland	Boo Lake	Mario Circuit	Delfino Square	Coconut Mall	Mario Circuit
Donut Plains 2	Choco Mountain	Cheese Land	Daisy Cruiser	Waluigi Pinball	DK Summit DK's Snowboard Cross	Music Park Melody Motorway
Bowser Castle 2	Mario Raceway	Bowser Castle 2	Waluigi Stadium	Shroom Ridge	Wario's Gold Mine	Rock Rock Mountain Alpine Pass
Mario Circuit 3	N/A

Lightning Cup

The Lightning Cup is only used as an original cup in Mario Kart: Super Circuit. It is the third cup out of five in the game. It includes four tracks:

• Luigi Circuit
• Sky Garden
• Cheep Cheep Island
• Sunset Wilds

Star Cup

The Star Cup is the second to last cup in all Mario Kart games. It contains fairly difficult tracks for experienced racers.

Super	64	Super Circuit	Double Dash!!	DS	Wii	7
Koopa Beach 1	Wario Stadium	Snow Land	Sherbet Land	DK Pass	Daisy Circuit	Piranha Plant Pipeway Piranha Plant Slide
Choco Island 2	Sherbet Land	Ribbon Road	Mushroom City	Tick Tock Clock	Koopa Cape	Wario's Galleon Wario Shipyard
Vanilla Lake 1	Royal Raceway	Yoshi Desert	Yoshi Circuit	Mario Circuit	Maple Treeway	Koopa City Neo Bowser City
Bowser Castle 3	Bowser's Castle	Bowser Castle 3	DK Mountain	Airship Fortress	Grumble Volcano	Wuhu Mountain Loop Maka Wuhu
Mario Circuit 4	N/A

Special Cup

The Special Cup is the last and most difficult cup in all Mario Kart games. In all but the first two games, the second to last course is Bowser's Castle. In all games, the final track is Rainbow Road.

Mario Kart 64 is the only game in the series in which the Special Cup is unlocked at the start of the game.

Super	64	Super Circuit	Double Dash!!	DS	Wii	7
Donut Plains 3	DK's Jungle Parkway	Lakeside Park	Wario Colosseum	Wario Stadium	Dry Dry Ruins	DK Jungle
Koopa Beach 2	Yoshi Valley	Broken Pier	Dino Dino Jungle	Peach Gardens	Moonview Highway	Rosalina's Ice World
Ghost Valley 3	Banshee Boardwalk	Bowser Castle 4	Bowser's Castle
Vanilla Lake 2	Rainbow Road
Rainbow Road	N/A

Original battles

Super	64	Super Circuit	Double Dash!!	DS	Wii	7
Battle Course 1	Big Donut	Battle Course 1	Cookie Land	Nintendo DS	Block Plaza	Honeybee House Honeybee Hive
Battle Course 2	Block Fort	Battle Course 2	Block City	Twilight House	Delfino Pier	Sherbet Rink
Battle Course 3	Double Deck	Battle Course 3	Nintendo GameCube	Palm Shore	Funky Stadium	Wuhu Town
Battle Course 4	Skyscraper	Battle Course 4	Pipe Plaza	Tart Top	Chain Chomp Roulette Chain Chomp Wheel	N/A
N/A			Luigi's Mansion	N/A	Thwomp Desert	N/A
N/A			Tilt-a-Kart	N/A

Retro cups

Games from DS onwards feature four Retro cups and a Retro section in Battle mode. Retro courses and arenas are recreations of those found in older games. Colored squares indicate the original game for each course and arena in this section. Note that the Lightning Cup was first and only used as an original cup for Super Circuit.

The structure for the tracks used in each Retro cup, based on the originating game, is as follows:

• DS: As the fifth instalment in the Mario Kart series, each retro cup in this game features tracks from the four previous titles in chronological order: Super, 64, Super Circuit and Double Dash!! Retro battle courses, however, are limited to one stage from 64 and another from Double Dash!!
• Wii: Each retro cup features one track from 64, another from Double Dash!! and another from DS. The Shell Cup and Lightning Cup each feature a track from Super, while the Banana Cup and Leaf Cup each feature a track from Super Circuit. Contrary to the DS retro cups, the track order for each Wii retro cup varies instead of being in chronological order. For battle stages, one from each of the five previous games is available.
• 7: Each Retro cup features one track from 64, one track from DS and another from Wii, although the Lightning Cup features no 64 track. The only Super Circuit retro track appears in the Shell Cup. The Banana Cup and Lightning Cup each feature a Super track. Finally, the Leaf Cup and Lightning Cup each feature a Double Dash!! track. Cups with a 64 track always start with that track. The order varies for the other tracks. Battle stages are from Super Circuit, 64 and DS respectively.

Shell Cup

All tracks in the Shell Cup originated in the Mushroom Cup, with the exception of Ghost Valley 2 and Mario Raceway which originated from the Flower Cup.

DS	Wii	7
■ SNESMario Circuit 1	■ GCN Peach Beach	■ N64Luigi Raceway
■ N64Moo Moo Farm	■ DSYoshi Falls	■ GBA Bowser Castle 1
■ GBAPeach Circuit	■ SNESGhost Valley 2	■ Wii Mushroom Gorge
■ GCNLuigi Circuit	■ N64Mario Raceway	■ DS Luigi's Mansion

Banana Cup

Most tracks in the Banana Cup debuted in the Flower Cup. Many, however, originated in the Mushroom Cup: the first track in DS and 7, the second track in Wii and 7, and the last track in DS. The only track to debut in the Star Cup is Sherbet Land's reappearance on Wii.

DS	Wii	7
■ SNESDonut Plains 1	■ N64Sherbet Land	■ N64Koopa Troopa Beach
■ N64 Frappe Snowland	■ GBAShy Guy Beach	■ SNESMario Circuit 2
■ GBA Bowser Castle 2	■ DSDelfino Square	■ WiiCoconut Mall
■ GCN Baby Park	■ GCNWaluigi Stadium	■ DSWaluigi Pinball

Leaf Cup

DS	Wii	7
■ SNESKoopa Beach 2	■ DSDesert Hills	■ N64Kalimari Desert
■ N64Choco Mountain	■ GBABowser Castle 3	■ DSDK Pass
■ GBALuigi Circuit	■ N64DK's Jungle Parkway	■ GCNDaisy Cruiser
■ GCNMushroom Bridge	■ GCN Mario Circuit	■ WiiMaple Treeway

Lightning Cup

From DS onwards, the Lightning Cup is used as a retro cup. The majority of tracks were originally featured in the Star Cup. However, the second track in every game so far and the last in 7 originate from the Special Cup. Also, the first track for Wii is Mario Circuit 3, which was originally found in the Flower Cup. Lastly, the third track in DS is Sky Garden, which was initially in Super Circuit's Lightning Cup.

DS	Wii	7
■ SNESChoco Island 2	■ SNES Mario Circuit 3	■ WiiKoopa Cape
■ N64Banshee Boardwalk	■ DSPeach Gardens	■ GCNDino Dino Jungle
■ GBASky Garden	■ GCNDK Mountain	■ DSAirship Fortress
■ GCNYoshi Circuit	■ N64Bowser's Castle	■ SNES Rainbow Road

Retro battles

DS	Wii	7
■ N64 Block Fort	■ SNES Battle Course 4	■ GBA Battle Course 1
■ GCN Pipe Plaza	■ GBA Battle Course 3	■ N64 Big Donut
N/A	■ N64 Skyscraper	■ DS Palm Shore
N/A	■ GCN Cookie Land	N/A
N/A	■ DS Twilight House	N/A