2024 Skinny Tire Festival Photos & Recap

STF

Mar 27

March 9th - 12th 2024, we held our 23rd Skinny Tire Festival in Moab, Utah! The Aarchway Inn, as always, was an excellent host for our event. This event started 23 years ago when the founder, Mark, wanted to find a way to deal with his grief after the passing of his brother due to cancer. He put purpose to his cycling and began the Moab Skinny Tire Festival with a few close friends to raise money for cancer survivorship programs.

Scroll down to see photos from the event, donation amounts, participant demographics and 2025 registration information.

Donations

We’re proud to report that with registration donations and additional donations from generous participants, we will be donating over $15,000 to our local cancer treatment center! We’re happy to donate a portion of every registration, a big thank you to everyone who added additional donations.

Festival Review

We had many first-time riders as well as participants who’ve ridden with us 3, 4, 5, and even 14 years in a row!

We had participants from the United States and Canada.

35 states were represented among the participants.

Our youngest participant was 13.

Our most senior participant was 84!

We had a variety of bike types at the event including:

Standard road bikes (with and without electric shift)
Tandem bikes
Electric (class 1) bikes
Bikes with dog carriers
Recumbent Bikes

We had close to an even split of male-identifying and female-identifying cyclists, 52% and 47% respectively.

We also noticed many cycling groups who traveled together for the event and took advantage of our Recruit 5, Ride Free Program.

Spring weather always keeps us on our toes in the desert and this year was no exception! However, the overall feedback was the chilly mornings and bits of wind added to the adventurous nature of the event! As you will see in the photos below, it made for some incredible scenery and photo opportunities as the sun made its way out every single day.

A big thank you to our staff, our volunteers, our sponsors, the participants, and everybody involved (including our supportive families!) who help make the Skinny Tire Festival so enjoyable and memorable.

Photo Contest Winners

There were over 1,800 photos uploaded in this year's photo contest - That is a lot!! And 600 more than we received last year. Below are 180 of the 1,800 photos to give you an idea of what an amazing event this truly was. These photos will also be posted to our social media channels. Thank you so much to everyone who participated in the photo contest!

This photo contest is a random draw, so the actual image plays no role in selecting our winners. The winners were randomly selected earlier and notified via email. The folks below won free entry to the 2025 Skinny Tire!

Congratulations to:

Olivia S.
Shelly L.
Kahwai M.

2025 Registration is now OPEN!

Are you ready to reserve your spot in the 2025 Skinny Tire Festival? That’s amazing! As you know, our limited rider 4-day option sells out F-A-S-T! If you are ready to register, click the button below.

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