Gravel Races 2025

Elite women compete at Unbound Gravel 200 in 2024.

How big is gravel racing in 2025? It's fair to say an avalanche of events emerging on the global landscape, for amateurs and pros alike, proves the off-road discipline is still rising in popularity.

Collections of races now form several regional and multi-national series, the UCI Trek Gravel World Series the largest with 33 events in 21 countries, having grown from just 10 events in 2022. The appeal of the events is not an overall prize or payout, but opportunities to qualify for the UCI Gravel World Championships, the top 25% of finishers in pro and age categories earning invitations to compete for rainbow stripes in the fall.

Another growing global series that does offer an overall classification and a share in a $37,500 prize purse is the Gravel Earth Series, which now boasts 25 races in 15 countries. The first year of the series began in 2023 with seven races. Five of the original competitions continue to be part of GES, with the signature events at The Traka in Girona, Spain the most popular.

In the US, considered the home of gravel racing, the Life Time Grand Prix has a spotlight for their invitation-only field of 50 elite riders who compete across six off-road events for a share in a $200,000 series prize purse. In 2025, Life Time introduced $30,000 cash prizes in the pro categories at the six events, including Unbound Gravel 200. Three of the events are distinctly gravel this year, the other three are mountain bike competitions.

Four races in the Belgian Waffle Ride series comprise a new Tripel-Quadrupel Series in the US and there is a Grasshopper Adventure Series in California, and smaller collections of racers are springing up in the southeast as well. A Nordic Gravel Series offers events across Finland and Sweden this year.

The number of national championships in gravel are also on the rise, last year around 14 countries awarded prizes for at national competitions, as well as Nordic and European regional titles.

There seems to be plenty of room for individual races, with the Lauf Gravel Worlds in Nebraska amping up their notoriety with a $100,000 prize purse in 2020. Gravel stage races are also more prevalent, with GES including six multi-day races on their schedule, Migration Gravel Race in Kenya and Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder in Oregon, both in June, providing bonus scoring in the standings.

Cyclingnews has assembled a list of nearly 100 leading gravel competitions for the 2025 calendar year. We'll provide race reports and news on most of the action this season, so follow along to keep track of the action, as well as tips later on how to register for top gravel events if you are an amateur or a pro.

Collection of races in a series

Grasshopper Adventure Series 2025

Jen Tavé (SpeedBlock p/b Terun) used two wins in the the five-race Grasshopper Adventure Series to take the women's overall title. She closed with 216 points to give her a 28-point advantage on her nearest rival, Kelly Brennan.

Taj Krieger (Rio Grande) finished third in the final event at King Ridge to secure the men's overall with 185 points, which gave him a 10-point margin to Ben Frederick.

Belgian Waffle Ride Quad-Tripel Crown of Gravel 2025

Flavia Oliveira Parks (Excel Sports) and Russell Finsterwald (Trek Driftless) won the elite series titles at the 2025 Belgian Waffle Ride Quad-Tripel Crown of Gravel, a best three-out-of-four series in the US.

Parks was second at BWR California and third at both the Utah and Montana stops to secure her top spot. Finsterwald pair of top 10 finishes at Arizona and California then won a two-rider sprint at Montana to claim the men's overall.

Gravel Earth Series 2025

The 2025 Gravel Earth Series will culminate on September 28 at Ranxo Gravel in Spain, where final tabulations will be made for the global series.

Through 16 events held between February 9 and August 9, USA's Morgan Aguirre (PAS Racing) and Dutch rider Piotr Havik (Classified x Rose) lead the overall standings.

Aguirre has wins at The Hills an Tierra de Campos plus third at The Rift, to lead Pas Racing teammate Karolina Migoń by 253 points.

Havik also has a pair of wins, at Gravel Mexico and Gravel Weekend in Latvia to go with two other podiums for a margin of 55 and 65 points ahead of the Pas Racing duo of Magnus Bak Klaris and Tobias Mørch Kongstad.

Life Time Grand Prix series 2025

After the first three of six race in the 2025 Life Time Grand Prix off-road series, Cecily Decker (PAS Racing) and Keegan Swenson (Santa Cruz) sit at the top of the leaderboards for elite riders.

Decker has 86 points, two points ahead of two-time series winner Sofia Gomez Villafañe (Specialized Off-road) and 14 points ahead of Melisa Rollins (Liv Racing Collective).

Swenson padded his overall lead with his victory at Leadville Trail 100 MTB in early August, now with 82 points. Simon Pellaud (Tudor Pro), who was second at Unbound Gravel, moved to sole second place in the Grand Prix standings, 7 points behind Swenson, while Torbjørn Røed (Trek Driftless) was third, 12 points back.

The final three events will be held across September and October, with the decisive round at Big Sugar Gravel in Arkansas on October 18. Riders in the invitation-only field must start five of six events in order to be eligible for the overall prizes.

UCI Gravel World Series and World Championships 2025

UCI Gravel World Series 2025

UCI Gravel World Championships 2025

Comprehensive calendar of global gravel races 2025

Date	Race	Location	Series	Pro distance	Pro prize money	Junior/U23
January 24	RADL GRVL	McLauren Vale, South Australia		106km	$10,000 AUD
January 26	Low Gap	Ukiah, California USA	Grasshopper	75km
February 2	Old Man Winter Bike Rally	Lyons, Colorado USA		112km	$3,000 US
February 8	BMC Rock Cobbler	Bakersfield, California USA		154km
Feburary 9	Attck Unrstrktd	Philippines	Global Earth Series (GES)	240km
February 15	Castellon Gravel Race	Castellon, Spain	UCI Gravel World Series (GWS)	97km
February 15-16	Santa Vall stage race	Girona, Spain	GES	265km
February 22	Huffmaster	Maxwell, California	Grasshopper	143km
February 23	Great Otway Gravel Grind	Forrest, Vic, Australia		97km
March 1	Giro Pio	Costa Rica	GES	160km
March 1	BWR Arizona	Cave Creek, Arizona USA	Belgian Waffle Ride/Quad-Tripel Crown	166km
March 8	Valley of Tears Gravel Race	Turkey, Texas USA		148km	$26,000 US	US Junior Gravel Series
March 9	Gravel Brazil	Camboriu, Brazil	GWS	111km
March 15	The Mid South	Stillwater, Oklahoma		162.5km
March 23	Turnhout Gravel	Turnhout, Belgium	GWS	144km
March 23	Rattlesnake Gravel Grind	Sweetwater, Texas		169km
March 29	114 Gravel Race	Elvas, Portugal	GWS	123km
March 29	The Hills	Treviso, Italy	GES	166km
April 6	Wörthersee Gravel Race	Velden am Wörthersee, Austria	GWS	140km
April 10	Sea Otter Classic Gravel elites	Monterey, California, USA	Life Time Grand Prix (LTGP)	145km	$30,000 US
April 11	Sea Otter Classic Gravel	Monterey, California, USA		96km		US Junior Gravel Series, LTGP U23
April 20	Monaco Gravel Race	Peille, Monaco	GWS	120km
April 25	Giro Sardegna Gravel	Siniscola, Italy	GWS	122km
April 26	Highlands Gravel Classic	Fayetteville,Arkansas, USA	GWS	109km
April 26	Ponderosa Pines/Australian Championships	Mount Crawford, SA, Australia		102km		U23; U19 distance is 72km
April 27	Paris to Ancaster	Paris, Ontario, Canada	GWS	110km
April 27	BWR California	Del Mar, California	Belgian Waffle Ride/Quad-Tripel Crown	193km
April 27	Ukiah-Mendo Gravel Epic	Ukiah, California USA	Grasshopper	122km
May 2	The Traka 360	Girona, Spain	GES	360km
May 3	The Ceder Gravel Race	Cederberg, South Africa	GWS	114km
May 3	The Traka 200	Girona, Spain	GES	200km
May 10	The Devils Cardigan	Derby, Tasmania, Australia	GWS	106km
May 10	King Ridge	Duncan Mills, California	Grasshopper	146km	$2,000 for series
May 11	Marly Grav Race	Valkenburg, Netherlands	GWS	120km
May 17	Seven	Nannup, WA, Australia	GWS	125km
May 17	The Gralloch	Gatehouse of Fleet, Scotland	GWS	110km
May 17	Stetina's Paydirt	Carson City, Nevada USA		111km	$10,000 women only
May 17	Gravel Primavera Borgå	Finland	Nordic Gravel	150km
May 24	Gravel Locos	Hico, Texas USA		241km
May 24	BWR Utah	Cedar City, Utah USA	Belgian Waffle Ride/Quad-Tripel Crown	165km
May 30	Life Time Unbound Gravel XL 350	Emporia, Kansas USA		563km		finish Sat
May 31	3RIDES Gravel Race	Aachen, Germany	GWS	123km
May 31	Life Time Unbound Gravel 200	Emporia, Kansas USA	LTGP - elit men	322km	$30,000 US
May 31	Life Time Unbound Gravel	Emporia, Kansas USA	LTGP - elite women	322km
May 31	Life Time Unbound Gravel 100	Emporia, Kansas USA		160km		LTGP U23
May 31	Life Time Unbound Gravel 50	Emporia, Kansas USA		80km		US Junior Gravel Series
June 7	Gravel Adventure	Szklarska Poreba - Jakuszyce, Poland	GWS	108km
June 7	Festivus of Gravel	Thorsby, Alberta, Canada	GES	190km
June 8	BWR British Columbia	Duncan, BC, Canada	Belgian Waffle Ride	195km
June 14	Gravel Challenge Blaavands Huk	Blaavands, Denmark	GWS	162km
June 14	Safari Gravel Race	Hell's Gate, Naivasha, Kenya	GWS	100km
June 14	Lost & Found Gravel	Portola, California USA	GES	161km
June 15	Wish One Millau Grands Causses	Millau, France	GWS	130km
June 17-20	Migration Gravel stage race	Kenya	GES	650km
June 21	Eislek Gravel Luxembourg	Vianden, Luxembourg	GWS	120km
June 25-29	Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder stage race	Bend, Oregon USA	GES	563km
June 28	Gravel Suisse	Villars, Switzerland	GWS	104km
June 29	SBT GRVL Race	Steamboat Sprints, Colorado USA		182km	$22,000	US Junior Gravel Series (120km)
June 29	BWR Montana	Bozeman, Montana USA	Belgian Waffle Ride/Quad-Tripel Crown	160km	BWR series prize purse tba
July 5	NGS Bergslagen	Nora, Sweden	Nordic Gravel	173/110km		NGS U23 division
July 6	Hegau Gravel Festival	Singen, Germany	GWS	136km
July 6	Gravel México	El Mastranto, Real de Catorce, Mexico	GES	241km
July 12	Gravel One Fifty	Peize, Netherlands	GWS	150km
July 12	Alpin Gravel Challenge	Switzerland	GES	100km
July 19	The Range	Claresholm, Alberta, Canada	GES	112km
July 19	The Rift	Hvolsvöllur, Iceland	GES	200km
Juy 19	FoCo Fondo	Fort Collins, Colorado USA		190km
July 26	Gravel Desert Monegros	Fraga, Spain	GES	200km
August 2	Megre Gravel	Zarasai, Lithuania	GES	150km
August 2	Dirty Sipoo / Finnish Championships	Sipoo, Finland	Nordic Gravel	150km		NGS U23 divisions
August 8-9	Gravel Weekend	Tukum, Latvia	GES	144km
August 9	FNLD GRVL	Lahti, Finland		177km	€7,000
August 10	Heathland Gravel	Terhills, Maasmechelen, Belgium		160km
August 16	Gravel Grit 'n Grind	Halmstad, Sweden	GWS	133km
August 16	CORE4	Iowa City, Iowa USA	GES	161km
August 23	Monsterrando	Fubine, Italy	GWS	142km
August 23	Khomas100	Windhoek, Namibia	GWS	160km
August 23	Lauf Gravel Worlds	Lincoln, Nebraska USA	GES	241km	$100,000 US
August 28-31	Rebecca's Private Idaho stage race	Sun Valley, Idaho USA	GES	321km
August 30	Houffa Gravel	Houffalize, Belgium	GWS	110km
September 6	Falling Leaves Lahti	Lahti, Finland	GES	180km
September 6-7	Graean Cymru	Llyn Brenig, Wales	GWS	111km
September 13	Saga Gravel	Paredones, Chile	GES	150km
September 13	Mammoth TUFF	Mammoth Lakes, California, USA	GWS	145km
September 13	66 Degrés Sud - Le Gravel	Les Angles, France	GWS	100km
September 20	Sea Otter Europe Girona	Girona, Spain	GWS	129km
Septembe 21	UEC European Gravel Championships	Avezzano, Italy	GWS	148/88km
September 27	Wasatch All-Road	Heber City, Utah USA		132km
Septembe 28	Ranxo Gravel	Ponts, Spain	GES	161km	$37,500 series prize purse
October 4	BWR North Carolina	Asheville, North Carolina, USA	Belgian Waffle Ride	187km
October 11-12	UCI Gravel World Championships	Zuid Limberg, Netherlands	World Championships	180/131km
October 18	Life Time Big Sugar Gravel	Bentonville, Arkansas, USA	LTGP	161km	$30,000 US	LTGP U23
October 19	Legacy Gravel	Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium	GWS 2026	150km
October 26	Gravelista	SEYMOUR, Victoria, Australia	GWS 2026	135km
October 26-November 1	Gravel Burn	Knysna, South Africa		850km	$150,000
November 1	Dustman	Kanchanaburi, Thailand	GWS 2026	130km
November 9	Alentejo Gravel	Ourique, Portugal	GWS 2026	119km
November 23	BWR Mexico	Queretaro, Mexico	Belgian Waffle Ride	180km