Bikepacking Events

Events for June 6 - November 23

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Bikepacking Races

Pinyons and Pines 2023 (300mi /483km)

Flagstaff Bicycle Revolution 3 South Mikes Pike, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

Pinyons and Pines is a self-supported bikepacking race that explores some of the best riding in Arizona...

Free
Group Rides

WeedSac 140 (2023) (140mi /225km)

High Altitude 310 Burro Ave, Cloudcroft, NM, United States

The WeedSac is a non-competitive 140-mile bike tour in the Sacramento Mountains, starting and ending in Cloudcroft, New Mexico...

Bikepacking Races

400 Ultra 2023 (248.5mi /400km)

Autocamp Mostek Mostek 2, Mostek, Hradec Kralove Region, Czech Republic

The 400 Ultra is a self-supported race through meadows, woods, and over hills in Czech Republic...

Bikepacking Races

Trans Virginia 2023 (Spring Grand Depart) (550mi /885km)

Lincoln Memorial 2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC, United States

The TransVirginia Bike Route is a 550-mile mostly-unpaved backcountry cycling route that traverses the state of Virginia from Washington, DC to Damascus, VA.

Free
Bikepacking Races

The Buckshot 2023 (260.9mi /420km)

Riverside Park 100 Lorne St, Kamloops, BC, Canada

For those bikepackers out there not yet up to the full 1000+ km and 11000+ m of elevation of the BC Epic, BC's ultimate bikepacking race, or those that simply do not have the time this season to commit to the Epic... comes the 'Buckshot'!

Free
Group Rides

The Mason Wild South Downs Way (105.6mi /170km)

The South Downs Social 3-4 Kings Walk, Winchester, United Kingdom

The Mason Wild South Downs Way is a two day self-guided off-road adventure along one of the UK's most spectacular and iconic must-ride routes.

£95
Bikepacking Races

Race Through Poland 2023 (932mi /1,500km)

PTTK PRZYSŁOP Czarna Wisełka 8, Wisła, Silesia, Poland

Race Through Poland is a TCR style bikepacking race, taking riders through the most iconic mountains of Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic. Free route, four controls, dedicated parcours, one ride.

Group Rides

Cross-Washington (XWA) 2023 (700mi /1,127km)

First Beach La Push, WA, United States

The Cross-Washington Mountain Bike Route traverses East from the Pacific Ocean through rainforests and deserts by way of singletrack and gravel roads.

Free
Bikepacking Races

Andean Raid 2023 (383.3mi /617km)

Cusco Cuzco, Peru

You don’t have to be a pro to enjoy the pain and glory of an epic climb – just try the Andean Raid.

$520
Group Rides

All Points North 2023 (621.3mi /1,000km)

A Different Gear 62 - 68 Thirlwell Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom

An unsupported journey through the North of England following ten control points along the way - what happens in between is up to you...

£95
Bikepacking Races

2023 Highland Trail 550 (550mi /885km)

Tyndrum Tyndrum , Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

A long distance self-supported mountain bike time-trail route through the Scottish Highlands.

Free
Group Rides

Dorset Dirt Dash 2023 (94mi /151km)

Red Lion 63 High St, Swanage, Dorset, United Kingdom

The Dorset Dirt Dash is a self-supported two day bikepacking event following gravel roads around Dorset and the Jurassic Coast...

£95
Group Rides

Gnomathon Kids 2023 (62.1mi /100km)

Sportlaan Vlodrop Vlodrop, Limburg, Netherlands

Gnomathon Kids is a 70-100km bikepacking event for kids and their parents, starting and finishing in Vlodrop, Netherlands...

Bikepacking Races

Hydra Epic VI (2023) (994.1mi /1,600km)

Tartumaa Sports Base Uderna, Tartu, Estonia

The Hydra Epic traverses the Baltic States from South to North, following some of the largest rivers in the region while navigating a healthy dose of singletrack as well...

€160
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North Central Washington 250 (2023) (250mi /402km)

Pybus Public Market 3 North Worthen Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States

The North Central Washington 250 is a self-supported event following some of the best backcountry terrain in North Central Washington...

Bikepacking Races

Empire Lands 2023 (559.2mi /900km)

Largo della Loggia - Belvedere Silvi Paese, Silvi, Teramo, Italy

From the organizers of the Race across Italy comes Empire Lands, a 900km self-supported gravel Race across Italy...

Bikepacking Races

Race Across Italy 2023 (RAI2020) (1243mi /2,000km)

Largo della Loggia - Belvedere Silvi Paese, Teramo, Italy

The Race Across Italy (RAI) is an unsupported bicycle race across Italy open to solo and pair riders, in single stage, where the clock never stops…

Bikepacking Races

Trans Am Bike Race 2023 (4300mi /6,920km)

COLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM 1792 MARINE DR, ASTORIA, OR, United States

Covering 10 States and 4,300 miles, the Trans Am Bike Race is a classic coast to coast race across the USA.

Bikepacking Races

The TransAtlantic Way 2023 (1553mi /2,499km)

London Ebrington St, Derry, Dublin, Ireland

The TransAtlantic Way is a 2,500km, one stage, self-supported road bike ride between Derry and Cork via The Wild Atlantic Way.

£380
Bikepacking Races

Pomorska 500 (2023) (329mi /529km)

Frajda Czarnocin 2, Stepnica, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

The Pomorska 500 is a bikepacking event that wanders through the Pomeranian watershed. There will be no river crossings...

PLN300
Bikepacking Races

B-HARD Ultra Race & Brevet 2023 (745.6mi /1,200km)

B-HARD Ultra Race Jovana Ducica 23a, Banja Luka, RS, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The 1,200 km route has been carefully crafted to represent Bosnia & Herzegovina “in a nutshell” and passes through National Parks, along rivers, lakes and waterfalls, over 1984 Winter Olympics ski centres, by UNESCO World Heritage sites and generally over stunning (and hilly) terrain...

Group Rides

TruLassen Tour 2023 (430mi /692km)

Corner of Bridge & Jibboom St TRUCKEE, CA, United States

The TruLassen Tour is a 430-mile self-supported gravel tour through the northern Sierras. Expect big climbs, beautiful valleys, and volcanoes...

Talks and Community

Canadian Shield Bikepacking Summit 2023

Meredith Centre 23 Chemin Cecil, Chelsea, Quebec, Canada

The Canadian Shield Bikepacking Summit is an opportunity for bikepackers to gather with like-minded people and share in their passion for adventure, riding bikes and spending time in the wilderness...

$129
Group Rides

Hungarian Divide 2023 (869.9mi /1,400km)

Smaragdvölgy Pihenőpark Rudabányácska, Szentgotthárd, Hungary

The Hungarian Divide is a self-supported bikepacking event across Hungary. Choose from either 700km or the full 1,400km route...

Bikepacking Races

Taunus Bikepacking No. 6 (2023) (621.3mi /1,000km)

The Eppstein Project Bezirksstraße 2, Eppstein, Hesse, Germany

A self-supported bikepacking adventure in the Taunus hills north of Frankfurt, taking in a mix of surfaces from paved lanes, gravel roads, cobblestone alleys, dirt trails and everything in between.

Group Rides

SITW West Kernow Way Bikepacking

Penzance YHA Penzance, England, United Kingdom

Come join UK's Sisters in the Wild for one off, special small group, five day bikepacking adventure on Cornwall's West Kernow Way...

Bikepacking Races

Super Berlin Express 747 (2023) (464mi /747km)

Alsterwiese Schwanenwik 20, Hamburg, Germany

747km in 50 hours, plus a series of checkpoints along the way. Are you ready for the Super Berlin Express 747?

Festivals and Demos

Nature is Bike (2023) (192.6mi /310km)

Place de la Rochefoucauld Angers, France

Nature Is Bike is a weekend-long festival celebrating all things gravel riding and bikepacking, with an ultra-distance ride as the main event...

Bikepacking Races

CAT 700 MTB Brevet (2023) (434.9mi /700km)

Ampolla Playa Passeig Platja Arenal, L'Ampolla, Tarragona, Spain

The CAT 700, Catalonia from north to south, from the Pyrenees to the Ebre Delta...

€240
Group Rides

VIBC Bikepacking Summit at Miracle Beach

Miracle Beach Campground 1720 Miracle Beach Dr, Black Creek, British Columbia, Canada

From June 16-17, join the VIBC for a bikepacking summit at Miracle Beach on Vancouver Island...

Free
Bikepacking Races

Frontier 300 (2023) (186.4mi /300km)

Colvend Public Hall Colvend, Dalbeattie, United Kingdom

From the organizers behind The Dirty Reiver, this new event traverses the Northern Borderlands from the west coast of Scotland to the east coast in Northumberland and is far from your traditional ‘coast to coast’ route…

£120
Bikepacking Races

Devon and Cornwall Trail 2023 (300mi /483km)

Bike Chain Cafe Bissoe, Cornwall, United Kingdom

The Devon and Cornwall Trail, or DC Trail for short, is a mixed terrain 300 or 450-mile ride in Devon, United Kingdom...

£65
Group Rides

BT 700 (2023) (494mi /795km)

The village of St. Jacobs St. Jacobs, Ontario, Canada

The BT 700 wanders along a mixed surface of gravel roads, rail trail, rowdy unmaintained roads and forested singletrack for a nearly 800km loop involving some of Ontario’s most amazing bikepacking terrain.

Free
Group Rides

Korea Epic Ride 2023 (387mi /623km)

Neuratjae Campsite 1325, Garakjae-ro, Dong-myeon, Chuncheon-si, Korea, Republic of

Korea Epic Ride is a 623km group ride intended to promote Korea's bicycle camping routes and for riders to get our and practice with their gear...

Bikepacking Races

45-SouthWest (2023) (2671.8mi /4,300km)

Old Town of Kraków Krakow, Malopolska, Poland

45-Southwest is a 4,300km self-supported bikepacking adventure from Krakow, Poland to Tarifa, Spain...

Bikepacking Races

Rad Race, 96 Hours (2023) (347.9mi /560km)

Ljubljana Ljubljana, Slovenia

Rad Race 96 Hours is a self-supported race following a gravel track winding through the ever astonishing landscapes of the Slovenian backcountry...

€96
Group Rides

Abruzzo Trail 2023 (167.7mi /270km)

Via Torre Di Cerrano 64025 Pineto TE, Pineto, Abruzzo, Italy

The Abruzzo Trail Mags Experience is a self-supported bikepacking event following an off-road road between Adriatic Sea and the Gran Sasso D’italia...

Bikepacking Races

2023 Kenai 250 (265mi /426km)

Hope Hope, AK, United States

The Kenai 250 is an epic endurance bikepacking race… Alaskan style. 100% self-supported and lots of singletrack.

Free
Bikepacking Races

Veneto Trail 2023 (310.6mi /500km)

Piazza Pierobon 11 Via G. Garibaldi, Cittadella, Province of Padua, Italy

A self-supported adventure on dirt roads, trails and secondary paved roads from the Po Valley to the Dolomites passing through a myriad of fascinating landscapes...

€40
Group Rides

Italy Unite Wild Trail 2023 (1180mi /1,899km)

Via Toma G. Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy

The Italy Unite Wild Trail is an annual self-supported bikepacking adventure across Italy. 1,900km from the south to the north...

Bikepacking Races

Ascend Armenia 2023 (688mi /1,107km)

Yerevan, Armenia Yerevan, Armenia

Ascend Armenia is a self-supported ultra-distance bikepacking race following a 1,100-kilometre route over a diverse and challenging mix of terrain and surfaces...

$300
Bikepacking Races

Westfjords Way Challenge 2023 (580mi /933km)

Isafjordur Westfjords, Iceland

Following the 580-mile Westfjords Way route in Iceland, the Westfjords Way Challenge the first ultra-endurance race of its kind...

Group Rides

Gnomathon 2023 (279.6mi /450km)

Sportcentrumlaan Sittard, Limburg, Netherlands

Gnomathon is a 450km self-supported bikepacking ride through the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany...

Group Rides

Vistula 1200 (2023) (745.6mi /1,200km)

Schronisko górskie PTTK Barania Góra - Przysłop Czarna Wisełka 8, Wisla, Poland

The Vistula 1200 is a bikepacking race, almost 1,200km, that follows a scenic and historically relevant route through some of the most beautiful areas of Europe...

Bikepacking Races

GCOR 2023 (440mi /708km)

Old Mill Cafe 721 Carlsborg Rd, Sequim, WA, United States

GCOR is a gravel circumnavigation of the Olympic Mountain Range in Washington…

Free
Bikepacking Races

Flatlands 300 (2023) (186.4mi /300km)

Papenvoort Papenvoort, Drenthe, Netherlands

Just because this gravel ultra is pancake flat, doesn't mean it cannot be wild. Welcome to the Flatlands 300...

Bikepacking Races

Pan Celtic Race 2023 (1400mi /2,253km)

St Malo Brittany, France

The Pan Celtic Race is a 1,400-mile, self-supported cycling adventure, journeying through the Celtic Nations of Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Brittany...

£425
Bikepacking Races

1000 Miles Adventure 2023 (1000mi /1,609km)

Hranice City Office U pošty 182, Hranice u Aše, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic

The 1000 Miles Adventure is a human-powered, non-stop race from the Western-most point of the Czech Republic to the Eastern-most village in Slovakia...

€360
Bikepacking Races

The Loop Vienna 2023

USUS am Wasser An der Neuen Donau 1, Vienna, Austria

With three different route options to choose from, the Loop Vienna is a bikepacking event in Austria where everyone finishes together…

Bikepacking Races

The Smoke Ring Challenge 2023 (200mi /322km)

Tilbury/Gravesend Ferry landing Ferry Road, Essex, London, United Kingdom

The Smoke Ring Challenge is a self-supported individual time trial / bikepacking adventure around the Big Smoke!

£40
Bikepacking Races

Trans South Dakota Race 2023 (714mi /1,149km)

BUFFALO JUMP SOUTH DAKOTA-WYOMING STATELINE I-90 EXIT 205, BEULAH, WY, United States

The Trans South Dakota Race is a 714-mile bikepacking race across the state of South Dakota with 5 miles of packrafting across the Missouri River...

$75 – $499
Group Rides

Lost in Prealps 2023 (124.2mi /200km)

Revine Lago Revine, Treviso, Italy

The Lost in Prealps is a bikepacking and randonneur event aimed at appreciating and enjoying the natural beauty found in the Venetian Prealps of Italy.

€50