Gainesville Cycling Festival 2024

Gainesville Cycling Festival is a gravel bike, road bike cycling event category ride in United States, state Florida and was organized for the first time in 1981. The edition Gainesville Cycling Festival 2024 will take place on Saturday 12 October 2024 with departure in Gainesville, County Alachua, Florida.

Gainesville Cycling Festival is offering 9 routes (161, 161, 109, 105, 90, 76, 53, 39, 37 km) for gravel bike, road bike

Organizer: The Gainesville Cycling Festival is an annual event organized by the Gainesville Cycling Club. Every year, the weekend of rides is held during the fall.

The festival features two century routes on back-to-back days, with various options for mileage during the weekend. The featured rides for Saturday include the Santa Fe Century and the Gravel Challenge. These routes showcase the scenic rural roads north of Gainesville. Saturday’s festivities begin at the Boys & Girls Club of Northeast Florida, the organization that receives proceeds from the event.

Sunday’s featured ride, the Horse Farm Hundred, as the name suggests, heads south into Marion County, home to the largest number of horses and ponies in the world. The ride is known for its outstanding scenery and significant elevation gain for a ride in Florida. Also on Sunday, the Horse Farm Tours starts in Marion County with shorter routes and the Gravel Meander.