The ArHC Race can take at least five days for the fastest racers to complete.
Hot Springs will be the host city in 2022 and 2023 for the grueling 1,037-mile Arkansaw High Country Race that takes bicycle competitors on a loop that encompasses much of the toughest mountain terrain in Arkansas. A shorter 500-mile loop also is available.
“Hot Springs is already famous for our city’s Northwoods Trail System, which is one of the finest mountain biking facilities in the South,” Traci Berry, Northwoods trails coordinator for Visit Hot Springs, said. “The Arkansaw High Country Race, which will start on October 8, 2022, in downtown Hot Springs, will be another jewel in our crown in the rapidly growing biking community in Arkansas and surrounding states.”
The ArHC Race, which takes at least five days for the fastest racers to complete, consists of a loop of gravel roads and highways that will begin in Hot Springs, travel west through the high ridges of the Ouachita Mountains and Ouachita National Forest, over to the Mena area, angle northeast past Lake Dardanelle, up to Fayetteville and a brief jog into Missouri, cut southeast through the tough territory of the Ozark National Forest and Buffalo National River area, drop south through the Greers Ferry Lake and Conway region, through Maumelle and back to Hot Springs.
For more information call Traci Berry at 501-321-2027.
