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Hoodoo 500

Hoodoo 500

August 23 - August 26 2024
St George UT
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Distances: 300, 500 miles
Difficulty: Ultra Distance and Climbing for events well over 100 miles
Limited to: 300 or less Participants

The Hoodoo 500 is the most epic and challenging ultracycling race, and a qualifying event for the Race Across America.

The Hoodoo 500 route passes through or around three National Parks, three National Monuments and several Utah State Parks. The scenery varies from majestic cliffs and striking red rock hoodoos to aspen and pine forests and high mountain meadows. All the best of Utah’s Color Country! 

Geologically speaking, hoodoos are tall, skinny spires of rock that protrude from the bottom of arid basins and sedimentary rock. Mystically speaking, hoodoo means a magical spell; which is what the Hoodoo 500 experience will cast upon you.

Come test yourself, and bring your lucky mojo. Amazing scenery, quiet roads, epic climbs, exhilarating decents, and the best post race banquet with awards and prizes. 

Solo, Tandem, 2-Person, and 4-Person Relay Teams. Bring a crew or request an invite to race self-supported with use of our drop bag service. Non-stop or stage race. The MOST options offered for any USA ultra cycling race.

Not a single inch of the route is repeated. The scenery is amazing. The route goes through, around or by three National Parks: Zion, Bryce and Capitol Reef; three National Monuments: Pipe Springs, Grand Staircase-Escalante and Cedar Breaks; countless Utah State Parks including Anasazi, Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Kodachrome and Snow Canyon, and meanders in and out of the Dixie National Forest.

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Start Located At: 1129 S Bluff Street in St. George, Utah
 
 
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All activities take place at the Best Western Abbey Inn in St. George.

Thursday, August 24, 2023 – 500-Mile Stage Participants Only
3pm-5pm:  500 Stage Racer Check-in
5:15pm:  Pre-Ride Meeting for 500-Mile Stage participants only; 
bicycle inspection for self-supported racers only

Friday, August 25, 2023
7am:  500-Mile Stage #1 begins in St George
2pm-5pm:  Check-in for Hoodoo 500 and all divisions of Hoodoo 300; bicycle inspection for self-supported racers only
5:15pm: Pre-Ride Meeting for Hoodoo 500 and all divisions Hoodoo 300

Saturday, August 26, 2023
5am:  Voyager and Nomad Start
7am:  300 & 500-Mile Solo and 300-Mile Stage Start in St George; 500-Mile Stage Day #2 Start in Escalante
8am:  300 & 500-Mile 2-Person / 2-Tandem Relay Teams Start
9am:  500-Mile 4-Person and 4-Tandem Teams Start 

Sunday, August 27, 2023
7am:  Hoodoo 300 & 500 Stage Stage start in Panguitch
10am:  Hoodoo 300 Non-Stop Event End

Monday, August 28, 2023
7am:  Hoodoo 500 Ends
9am:  Banquet Breakfast and Awards

Registration Fees

Entry fee depends on category. Please see website.

Included

LIVE GPS tracking; tech t-shirt and other Hoodoo souvenir for each rider; post race breakfast banquet; finisher medal for each successful rider; finisher jersey for each successful rider.  All weekend long twitter feed from Race Headquarters and on route. Fun awards and raffle prizes at the banquet! Solo finishers qualify for Race Across America.

Packet Pickups

See schedule listing above. Depends on stage race or nonstop.

Prize / Race Categories

Depends on stage race vs nonstop.

 
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Sep 08 2024 - EVENT: Tour of Southern Utah
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planetultra
Oct 14 2023 - NEWS: Obsessive Cycling Disorder is Real!
Nov 14 2050 - NEWS: Get on your bike and CLIMB with the Everesting Challenge this October!
Jun 28 2023 - NEWS: Can you handle the Hoodoo 500 this August?
Feb 08 2023 - NEWS: Get on your bike and CLIMB with the Everesting Challenge this July!
Feb 08 2023 - NEWS: Get on your bike and CLIMB with the Everesting Challenge this April!
May 20 2022 - NEWS: Get on your bike and CLIMB with the Everesting Challenge by Planet Ultra!
May 20 2022 - NEWS: Get on your bike and CLIMB with the Mt. Everest Climbing Challenge
Nov 08 2021 - NEWS: Get on your bike and Climb with the Everesting Challenge
Apr 30 2014 - NEWS: Zion Gran Fondo Results
Nov 21 2013 - NEWS: Mulholland Double & Century Registration Opens
Apr 30 2014 - RESULTS: Zion Gran Fondo
Apr 27 2024 - EVENT: Mount Laguna Classic
May 11 2024 - EVENT: Volcano Fire Road 120K
Aug 23 2024 - EVENT: Hoodoo 500
Sep 08 2024 - EVENT: Tour of Southern Utah
Nov 09 2024 - EVENT: Solvang Autumn Double
Nov 16 2024 - EVENT: Death Valley Century