Tour de Ruidoso
Name:
Tour de Ruidoso
Date:
September 28, 2013
Event Description:
The Seventh Annual Tour de Ruidoso is a Fundraising event to benefit a variety of local not-for-profit organizations. The Tour De Ruidoso will give you the challenge you’ve been searching for! Beginning with a climb from 6840 to 7485, a downhill and a climb back to 7482 and then dropping down to 7257 ... and this is in the first 6 miles! After check point 3, you’ll drop out of the evergreen forest into the Sonoran Desert and wind your way to Capitan, New Mexico. The Century riders climb to the Capitan Gap where Smokey Bear was found.
From Capitan you continue east and then south to Ft. Stanton. Here you’ll begin the climb to the mesa and the Sierra Blanca Regional Airport. Open country and magnificent views will enchant you as you head back to Highway 48 and the last leg into Ruidoso.
The beautiful scenery will amaze you as you tour through history. Geronimo’s Apaches roamed these hills. Black Jack Pershing and the Buffalo Soldiers served at Ft. Stanton. This is the heart of Billy the Kid country. The Lincoln County War was fought in this area and you may still see a stagecoach crossing the mountains near you where Smokey Bear was born and buried.
The Host Hotel is The Lodge at Sierra Blanca, and this is where the ride will start and finish. We have a Century, 100 K, Nearly Flat 20 miler, and new this year a 42 mile option. The after party will be at the hotel after the ride.
From Capitan you continue east and then south to Ft. Stanton. Here you’ll begin the climb to the mesa and the Sierra Blanca Regional Airport. Open country and magnificent views will enchant you as you head back to Highway 48 and the last leg into Ruidoso.
The beautiful scenery will amaze you as you tour through history. Geronimo’s Apaches roamed these hills. Black Jack Pershing and the Buffalo Soldiers served at Ft. Stanton. This is the heart of Billy the Kid country. The Lincoln County War was fought in this area and you may still see a stagecoach crossing the mountains near you where Smokey Bear was born and buried.
The Host Hotel is The Lodge at Sierra Blanca, and this is where the ride will start and finish. We have a Century, 100 K, Nearly Flat 20 miler, and new this year a 42 mile option. The after party will be at the hotel after the ride.
