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Sinnemahone Gravel Race
Sinnemahone Gravel Race sponsored by Embassy Powdered Metals is a 55 mile timed race/ride with 5000 feet of climbing starting and finishing on West Creek Recreational Trail. The route includes 2 trail sections, improved gravel roads, 1 seasonally maintained road, 2 short paved sections, and the best mountain scenery in Pennsylvania. The course is largely within the Elk State Forest and travels through Sinnemahoning State Park and southern Potter County.
Sinnemahone Gravel
For those who are not on the gravel biking scene or into bicycling at all and are wondering what a gravel bike and gravel biking is, here is a brief explanation. We have been gravel biking here for decades given the significant miles of dirt roads we have - we just didn't call it that as we were riding mountain bikes. Gravel biking as it is known now is a response to deteriorating paved road conditions everywhere and the desire to ride on safer roads. Gravel courses are typically long and combine dirt roads, secondary roads, and short sections of trails and pavement. Gravel bikes as such came about 5 years ago or so and are essentially endurance road bikes with clearance for greater width tires to handle off pavement conditions. Go to a gravel race and while you will see mostly gravel bikes as they are perhaps the most well rounded option, you will see all types of bikes - full suspension mountain bikes, hardtail mountain bikes, drop bar mountain bikes, fat bikes, maybe even the occasional road bike. At some point in a gravel race/ride, one of those options will be the best; and at another point it may be the worst. It is a sport with no attitude where the experience of the ride is the prize. The Sinnemahone Gravel course is just one of an endless combination of dirt roads in this region. The best way to experience riding here is to pick up a DCNR Elk or Susquehannock State Forest Map and start riding. Don't wait until this event to come here to ride.
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