Cycling Events, Races and Urban Cycling Workshop

The American River Resort is proud to offer its venue for Urban and Rural Bicycling Workshops to anyone wanting to improve their riding skills, gain confidence in an urban environment or for children to gain the skills needed for adulthood. Whether you’ve never been on a bike before or you just want to brush up with some tips for riding in the city, we’ve got an appropriate venue to get you rolling! If you or your organization offers cycling workshops, then you must consider our resort as a venue. It’s the perfect mix of small town road with an urban and rural feel. Not to mention the fresh air and chance to unwind in nature.

You’re never too old to learn to bicycle and attending or hosting a cycling workshop is a perfect way to spend the weekend! Urban Cycling Workshop instructors work one-on-one to teach the basics of balancing, starting, stopping and steering a bike, as well as proper helmet fit and adjustment. Most people learn to ride their bike in a city while taking the class, but even if you don’t, you will leave with tips to continue to ride safely and with confidence in an urban environment.

The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is one of the organizations helping the current and next generation learn to ride confidently and comfortably on two wheels at the Freedom From Training Wheels Family Workshops across the city. If you are looking to get comfortable riding in San Francisco, then join them for a two-hour course covering all you need to know for biking in your urban community and the Bay Area. They offer the perfect class for anyone already riding to hone their skills, or people interested in riding but intimidated by urban traffic. Their comprehensive courses utilize the curriculum of the League of American Bicyclists and completion of this classroom session will allow you to take part in a future On-Road class.

Want to start biking with your kiddo? That’s great! The Bicycle Coalition also teaches family biking classes that cover everything from biking while pregnant to biking your child to school. Biking with your family allows you to spend more quality, healthy time together.

The American River Resort plays host to several annual cycling events. The Resort is located 20 minutes from Auburn, which is an annual destination for the Tour of California cycling race.

Motherlode Century Bike Ride

Rolling through farms, forest, rural countryside, and vineyards, the Motherlode Century Bicycle Ride guides you through Northern California’s most beautiful landscapes. The 34-mile (2,691′ gain) loop provides a sampling of all the good elements of riding in the Historic Gold Country, while the 63-mile (6,036′ gain), 77-mile, 83-mile and 97-mile (9,630′ gain) routes add a remote canyon with rewarding climbs and amazing scenery. After the ride, soak in the cool river, take a hot shower, get a massage, or enjoy a selection of local craft beers, local wines and a delicious catered BBQ dinner served at our dining area. SAG support makes sure riders have a comfortable experience and riders also enjoy well stocked aid stations, a big hearty lunch and delicious riverside dinner with live music following the ride.

Sierra To the Sea Ride

Sierra to the Sea is a beautifully scenic and relatively challenging 8-day California bicycle and camping tour. Sierra to the Sea rides from the Lake Tahoe region, crosses the Sierra Nevada foothills, then traverses the Sacramento, Napa and Russian River Valleys down to the Pacific Coast. The tour finishes with a memorable ride across the Golden Gate Bridge and a delicious picnic in Golden Gate Park. For more information, visit Sierra to the Sea.

Tour of California

The Amgen Tour of California is designed to cover a variety of terrain, allowing different types of specialists among the field of the world’s greatest cyclists to shine throughout the week. Highlights of the men’s race will include the Queen Stage from Ventura to the summit of Gibraltar Road in Santa Barbara County, a challenging mountain stage with an uphill finish at 6,500 feet elevation on day six, and the highly anticipated sprinter showdowns the race has become known for on many stages. Similar to 2017, the women’s overall will be contested on the high-altitude Queen Stage in South Lake Tahoe which features one of the biggest climbs in the UCI Women’s WorldTour, while the speedy sprinters will find their opportunities on the first and last stages of the race.

Cycling Vacations

The Resort is the perfect overnight camping spot for your family bicycling trip, bicycling club trip or solo multi-day bicycling trip. We even offer tent rentals, free hot shower in our remodeled shower and restroom facilities and catered meals to make your trip complete. Our location off Historic California Highway 49 offers bicyclists access to amazing trails such as the nearby Cronan Ranch Trails Regional Park which has a 12-mile hike, bike and horse riding trail that runs along the American River. We are also near the Desolation Wilderness, Tahoe National Park and Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, all of which provide scenic and fun mountain biking trails.

Looking to join a bicycling club in the Sacramento or El Dorado County Region? Check out these great clubs:

• Bella Fiore Ladies Cycling Club
• Cycle Folsom
• Davis Bike Club
• Erna’s Diner Bicycle Club (Ione)
• Hammerin’ Wheels (Roseville)
• Lincoln Hills Cyclists (Sun City Lincoln)
• Recumbent Riders of Sacramento
• Sacramento Bike Hikers
• Sacramento Wheelmen
• Sierra Express Bicycle Club (Nevada City)
• Sierra Foothills Cycling Club (Auburn)