Women-Only Rides

Here’s our 2010  list of Women- Only Rides across the US. We are also including some women-only mountain biking events. (At some point  they may have their own page.)  

If you know of more, please contact us and let us know all about it. We would love to hear the details and add it to the list. 

We update this list frequently so check back often!

Alaska

10th Annual Bike For Women

Description: A Fun 9-mile Bike event (Race) for women. Awards will be given to the 1st, 2nd & 3rd place women and junior women.
 

• 9 miles
• Chugiak, Alaska
• Sunday, May 2, 2010
• Website

Arizona

Girls Gone Riding Ride

Description: Join us for Arizona’s ONLY All-Women Bike Ride! Ride 15 miles, 30 miles or a metric century… All dollars raised benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. 

• 100km (62 miles) & 15 or 30 mile routes
• Gilbert, AZ.
• Saturday, February 20, 2010
• Website for sign-up

Wahine Warrior: Arizona’s Only All-Women Mountain Biking Event

Description: The format will be similar to a typical cross country mountain bike event, Cat 1, Cat 2 and Cat 3 women will compete as they would normally but without the overanxious testosterone driven male either blocking the path or passing too closely. There will also be women’s specific bikes to demo and a skills clinic as well. 

• Races for various abilities and ages including teens and children under 14.
• McDowell Mountain Regional Park, AZ
• Saturday, September 25, 2010
• Website for sign-up

California

Princess Promenade

Description: This unique and inspiring event gives women and girls a fun, non-intimidating, ride along the beautiful American River Parkway bike trail with no cars, great food, wonderful entertainment, a challenging time trial, and a costume contest too! We offer training program and bike skills classes throughout the year to get you fit, trained, and ready for the annual Princess Promenade and exciting Princess Fitness Festival held at Discovery Park, Sacramento, CA 

• Bike trail ride distances of 5k, 15 mile, 26 mile, 55 mile, and a Metric Century (64 miles)
• Sunday, October 3, 2010
• Discovery Park, Sacramento, CA
• Website

Beach Babe Bicycling Classic–NEW This Year!

Description: Experience the surf, sand, and smells of summer along California’s coastline. The Beach Babe Bicycling Classic is an insider’s journey of the ultimate beach life of waves and wicked wahini. Be one of 200 women who will participate in Southern California’s first women’s only ride. Created by women, for women, this ride begins a new chapter in cycling herstory! 

• 30 mile cycling pleasure cruise
• Saturday, July 17, 2010
• Long Beach, CA.
• Website

Velo de Femme: Great Western Bicycle Rally

Description: This is a beautiful 40-mile ride that includes a rest stop at the Sylvester Winery and an optional visit to the Templeton Farmer’s market. Enjoy the camaraderie of other women, get some on-road riding tips and attend a clinic.
 

• Women’s Fun Ride & Clinic (42 miles)
• Saturday, May 29, 2010
• Paso Robles, CA.
• Sponsored by the City of Paso Robles
• Website

Cinderella Classic

Description: This unique 100-kilometer (65-mile) bicycle tour for women of all ages winds through Amador, Livermore, Diablo, and San Ramon Valleys. It is mostly flat with a few moderate hills. From the start at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, the Cinderella Classic circles through town, out through the vineyards of Livermore, then north and along the base of beautiful Mt. Diablo to Danville, where it turns south and winds back to the Fairgrounds. Charming Princes will be at three rest/food stops along the way, with a cold lunch at the second. Our SAG service patrols the entire route to provide rider assistance if required. 

• 100km (62 miles)
• Saturday, April 10, 2010
• Pleasanton, California
• Sponsored by Valley Spokesmen Bicycle Touring Club
• Website

Colorado

Venus de Miles

Description: Venus de Miles is Colorado’s first and only all-women bike ride. The ride raises money for some very deserving students (Greenhouse Scholars), and is a great way to make new friends and have a good time. 

• Variable distances: 65, 50 & 35 miles
• Sunday, August 29, 2010
• Longmont, CO.
• Website

Beti Bike Bash

Description: (Not a road cycling ride-This one is in a class of its own!)This is the First-Ever Women’s Mountain Biking Event. “If you can ride, you can race!” 

• Course Description: The race course will feature a 5 mile lap on rolling, non-technical terrain at Bear Creek Lake Park. Mostly singletrack riding with views of Red Rocks and surrounding park. Tuesday, June 1 at 6pm, pre-ride the course with the Yeti Beti’s. They will host their women’s ride at Bear Creek Park and give you a preview of the race course
• Saturday,  June 12, 2010
• Lakewood, CO.
• Website

Maine

9th Annual Women’s Ride

Description: Each summer the Bicycle Coalition of Maine hosts the Women’s Ride, along scenic routes in southern coastal Maine. This all-women ride offers something for riders of all levels. The 5 and 15 mile options provide a great opportunity for those who haven’t ridden bikes since childhood to rediscover the health benefits — and fun — of bicycling. The 25 and 50 mile routes give more seasoned cyclists the chance to go north along Merrymeeting Bay to the Brunswick area and down the Harpswell peninsula, before returning to Freeport for massage, yoga, food and celebration on the LL Bean campus. Proceeds from the Women’s Ride support the Bicycle Coalition’s education mission of teaching bike safety to schoolchildren across Maine. 

• Various mileage options: 5, 15, 25, 50
• Sunday, June 13, 2010
• Freeport, ME.
• Website

Maryland

3rd Annual Wild Goose Chase

Description: Join Terry Bicycles, in conjunction with GORE BIKE WEAR™, in October 2010  for a day of riding, eating, shopping and meeting new friends. The terrain is dead flat, the scenery is spectacular and the roads are quiet. It’s perfect for everyone from beginners just getting into the sport to seasoned pros who want some end of season miles to stretch their legs. Come the day before and enjoy kayaking and self-guided bike tours of the area. 

• Sunday, October 17, 2010
• Cambridge, Maryland
• Website
• Fundraiser: This one day bicycle tour for women takes place in and around Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, in Cambridge, Maryland on the Eastern Shore. It’s a spectacular way to enjoy fall cycling while contributing to a great cause. In 2009, we raised $24,500 for the Refuge. We hope to raise $35,000 this year

New Mexico

Ride in the Clouds—NEW This Year!

Description: This is the inaugural first all-women’s ride in New Mexico! The ride which originates in the Lincoln National Forest in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, will be offered in 3 distances including a full century ride. The two shorter routes will have very little traffic and the 100 miler will only have about the last 20 miles with any significant traffic and that is still very light. The views will be breathtakingly beautiful! Proceeds benefit a women’s shelter called COPE, Center Of Protective Environment located in Alamogordo, NM. (Cloudcroft, home of several notable spas and resorts, is about 100 from El Paso, TX and less than 90 miles from Las Cruces, NM.) 

• Variable distances: 35, 65, & 100 miles
• Saturday, October 9, 2010
• Cloudcroft, NM. near Alamogordo, NM. 
• Website Info coming SOON!

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North Carolina

Le Tour de Femme

Description: Le Tour de Femme is a women’s only full and half metric century bicycle ride in Cary, North Carolina. Le Tour de Femme is presented this year by Grab My Wheel to Benefit the Lance Armstrong Foundation and the local Angel Fund of Rex Hospital. 

• Saturday, October 9, 2010
• 15 miles, 31.2 miles or 62.4 miles
• Cary, North Carolina
• Website

Pennsylvania

Girls With Gears: A Women’s Cycling Event

Description: The Girls With Gears Ride raises funds and awareness for CAROL For Heart. The mission of CAROL For Heart is to eradicate women’s heart disease through education. Heart disease is the #1 killer of women in the United States yet it can be prevented. Women need to be proactive in their own heart health. 

• Varied Mileage Routes: 10, 25, 45 & 62 miles
• Sunday, April 18, 2010
• Limerick, PA.
• Sponsored by Bikesport
• Website

Tennessee

Hope On Wheels: Women Cycling for a Cause

 

• Variable Distances: 29, 62 or 100 miles
• Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee
• Saturday, September 11, 2010
• Website

Utah

Wonder Woman Century Ride–NEW THIS YEAR!

• Various Distance Options: 30, 70 and a Full Century Ride (100 miles)
• Payson, UT. (South of Provo, UT.)
• Saturday, September 18, 2010 
• Website

Goldilocks Women Only Bike Ride –NEW THIS YEAR!

Description: Goldilocks is a fully supported, non-competitive, women only, charity cycling event. This is a fun opportunity to spend the day with your girlfriends while enjoying a gorgeous ride through the southwest part of the Salt Lake Valley. The ride begins in Herriman, Utah and is a great mix of urban and rural riding as you travel through the Daybreak community, Lehi farmland, Thanksgiving Point, and Camp Williams. You will never be bored! 

• Variable distances 15, 30, & 60 miles
• Herriman, UT.
• Saturday, May 8, 2010
• Sponsored by Pedal Palooza
• Website

Little Red Riding Hood Ride

Description: The Little Red Riding Hood Ride a fully supported, non-competitive, Women only cycling event. Spend the day riding through beautiful Cache Valley in Northern Utah. The route is a loop through the valley on paved rural & country roads. The terrain is mostly flat, with some rolling hills (NO big climbs). All proceeds go to support Women’s Cancer Research.  

• Century Ride & other variable distances 18, 35, 57, 80, 100 miles
• Logan, UT.
• Saturday, June 5, 2010
• Sponsored by Bonneville Bicycling Club
• Website

Spokes For Hope: Southern Utah’s Women-Only Century Ride –NEW THIS YEAR!

Description: This is a debut event. The ride goes through and around the Red Rock country of St. George, Utah. The 30-mile route is very flat. With the other distances there may may a few hills but no big climbs. All proceeds go to help the Dove Center, a domestic violence shelter for women and children. 

• Various Mile Options for All Abilities: 30, 50, 70, 94 miles
• St. George, UT.
• Saturday, April 10, 2010
• Website

Washington

Cycle the Wave

Description: Cycle the WAVE is an all-women’s bike ride hosted by Lakemont Ladies Cycling Club and Rising Star Guild for Eastside Domestic Violence Program. The ride is not a race, enjoy this ride with your favorite female riding buddies. This event was created by women passionate about cycling, friendship, fitness, and the desire to make a difference. There is a route for everyone. The 25 mile Girly Girl is a fun ride through the rolling hills of Bellevue’s quiet neighborhoods. The 40 mile Middle Sister offers a few more scenic miles. For the more experienced rider we offer the Burly Girl, a 62 mile metric century with beautiful scenery and challenging climbs! Cycle the WAVE loves its riders and will pamper you with well stocked rest stops, bike mechanic support, surprises along the way, sassy tees, girly gift bags and fun finish line festivities! 

• Various Mile Options for All Abilities: 25, 40, & 62 miles (Metric Century)
• Issaquah, WA.
• Sunday, September 19, 2010
• Website