Rural Minnesota is home to quite a few long standing gravel road races and in recent years many new events have started to become a yearly tradition with cyclists. With varying terrain, minimum maintenance roads, elevation changes, great rural scenery and unpredictable weather in the Spring and Fall, these events are sure to be fun and challenging. Some are free while others require registration fees. Almost all are unsupported requiring the participants to be their own repair and support crew.
This year's calendar will include all types of gravel races, rides and mixed surface events from around the state and just across the border. Some of these have registration cutoff dates, have a rider cap, or more information and registration details that are yet to be announced. Below is a list of all of the gravel events that I'm aware of in chronological order. I will continue to update and add events to this post as they become available. If you are a race or event organizer and would like your event listed here and on any of the listings on my Event Calendars page, please send me an e-mail.
April
Ragnarok 105-April 6, 2023
Red Wing, MN
105 miles
Postcard Registration must be postmarked by December 31, 2023
Driftless 100-April 27, 2024
Elkader City Pool
Elkader, IA
100, 60, 30 miles
May
Granny’s Gravel Grinder-May 4, 2024
Grandma’s House
Princeton, MN
100, 50, 25 miles
GRVL DRMA V-May 18, 2024
Central Park
Northfield, MN
390, 165, 110, 55, 30 miles
Spring Valley 100-May 18, 2023
Spring Valley, MN
100 miles
Le Grand du Nord Gravel Classic-May 25, 2024
Grand Marais, MN
110, 54, 26 miles
Online Registration (opens January 1, 2024)
June
Epic Bike Fest-June 7-9, 2024
American Birkebeiner Trailhead
Cable, WI
Epic Singletrack-June 8
37, 18 miles
Epic Gravel-June 9
50, 27 miles
Kasners Kick Duchenne Charitable Gravel Bike Ride-June 8, 2024
Rambling River Park
Farmington, MN
158, 79, 44, 17.9 miles
Zumbro Gravel Challenge-June 15, 2023
Kwik Trip
Zumbrota, MN
135 km
The Fox Bikepacking Race-June 29-30, 2024
Finland Community Center
Finland, MN
120 miles
Online Registration (opens January 1, 2024)
Lutsen 99'er-June 29, 2024
Lutsen Mountains
Lutsen, MN
99, 69, 49, 25 miles
Online registration opens January 9, 2024
July
Online Registration (opens January 1, 2024)
The Wolf Bikepacking Race-July 19-21, 2024
Two Harbors/Ely/Grand Marais/Two Harbors
300 miles
Online Registration (opens January 1, 2024)
Hotdish 100-July 27, 2024
Briggs Outdoors
Winona, MN
100 miles, 100 km, 50km
August
Hollo Gravel Classic-August 10, 2023
Battle Lake, MN
70 miles
Postcard Registration April 1st to August 1st
Rosemount-Miesville Gravel-August 10, 2023
Starbucks
Rosemount, MN
110 km
Murphy-Hanrehan Gravel Cruise-August 31, 2023
Murphy-Hanrehan Regional Park
Savage, MN
110 km
Two Harbors, MN
105, 56, 18 miles
Online Registration (opens January 1, 2024)
Rosewood Gramble-September 28, 2024
Northland Community & Technical College
Thief River Falls, MN
62, 25 miles gravel, 30, 16, 1.4 miles paved
October
Events TBA
November
Events TBA
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