Schedule of Events

Saturday, January 25, 2025

Registration Opens

Sunday, November 9, 2025

Registration Closes

Thursday, November 13, 2025

  • Event production team arrives in Douglas and sets up at Art Car World

  • All Three BorderLands Gravel Courses will be marked by Sundown

  • 5:30 PM - Douglas Area VOLUNTEERS Meeting – Art Car World

Friday, November 14, 2025

  • 1:00  PM – 7:30 PM - Number/packet pick-up at Art Car World (ACW)– 401 E. 9th Street, Douglas, AZ. Please have your personal identification with you

  • 6:00 PM - Rider meeting (mandatory) - Art Car World Lobby Area

Saturday, November 15, 2025

  • 6:00 AM – 7:00 AM – LATE Event Packet Pick-up – ACW (NO Long Course !!)

  • 7:55 AM – National Anthem – Mexico and USA

  • 8:00 AM – Long Course Participants – START

  • 8:25 AM – Medium Course Participants  - START

  • 8:40 AM – Short Course & E-Bike Participants – START

  • 8:45 AM – Aid Station #1 OPENS - John Slaughter Ranch (JSR - 17 miles)

  • 9:30 AM – Aid Station #2 OPENS – Geronimo Trail (GTR - 29 miles)

  • 10:00 AM –  Aid Station #3 OPENS – Coronado National Forest (+/- 39 miles)

  • 10:05 AM – Short Course Riders start to return to Douglas.

  • 11:15 AM – Aid Station #4 OPENS – Mormon Marker – Skratch Labs

  • 11:20 PM – Medium Course riders start to return to Douglas.

  • 12:30 PM – JSR Aid Station #1 CLOSES

  • 12:35 PM – Long Course Riders start to return to Douglas.

  • 2:00 PM – GCR Aid Station #2 CLOSES (8.5 miles down GCR)

  • 2:30 PM – Coronado National Forest Aid Station #3 CLOSES

  • 3:55 PM – Awards Ceremony – All 3 Distances – Art Car World – Lobby Area

  • 4:00 PM – Aid Station #4 CLOSES – Mormon Battalion Marker – Skratch Labs

  • 4:30 PM – All Three Courses are CLOSED – Swept for All participants

  • 4:45 PM – BOG Post Events Events Start – Welcome Tirrito Farm and E.Y.S.

  • 5:00 PM – Finish Line CLOSES – ALL Riders must be @ the FINISH line-DNF

Congrats to ALL – Participants / Volunteers / Spectators / GYGO

Sunday, November 16, 2025

  • 8:00 AM – Final Course sweep for trash and other items.

  • 4:00 PM – Say Adios to Douglas

Monday, November, 17, 2025

  • Start planning for the 2026 Third BorderLands Gravel (BLG) event

December 2025

  • Meetings with Cochise County and Douglas, AZ to debrief the 2025 BLG EVENT