Join us to celebrate the opening of the Finnish gravel season 2024. We offer you the choice between 50km, 80km and 110km routes in the Nuuksio - Kirkkonummi area with start and finish in Backby Kartano.

The event registration includes participation, post-ride buffet, 1 food and drink stop including sports nutrition, showers, swimming pool and sauna. Bike wash.

Accommodation and/or breakfast at Backby Kartano can be booked. Rental bikes and GPS devices available. Limited to 150 participants. Final GPS routes are provided one week before the event.

Founded in the early Middle Ages and boasting a beautiful historic center, the city of Uppsala is certainly worth a gravel riding visit. The region offers good quality hardpack gravel roads, rolling forest roads and the occasional singletrack. On the first weekend of June, NGS features routes of 40, 80 and 160 km through scenic and forest landscapes northwest of the city.

The Jyväskylä region offers one of the best gravel road networks in Finland. Surrounded by breathtaking lakeland nature and four national parks, it is a great setting for a summer gravel event. Add UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the most instances of Alvar Aalto architecture in the world, and the title of Sauna Region of the World and you know this is an event not to be missed. Distances of 60, 110 and 173 km.

The event is limited to 500 participants. This event welcomes riders from all levels and fitness and is open to mountainbikes, hybrid bikes and e-bikes.

The Bergslagen area, located in central Sweden, is the cradle of the Swedish early industrial wonder with its countless mines and iron ores. Historical villages, connected by excellent gravel roads, are spread out amid the vast forests, lively streams and humble hills.

We invite you to explore the natural beauty and harsh hills in the Kilsbergen mountain range, the picturesque surroundings of Nora as well as the culinary gifts of Grythyttan and beyond. The venue for this years event will be at Nora next to the Fåsjön lake. Routes of 60, 120 and 180km. The 180 and 120km race are part of the Gravel Earth Series.

Experience the beauty of the turning of the leaves while riding pristine gravel in the Lahti and Salpausselkä UNESCO Geopark region. The area offers scenic gravel roads surrounded by fields and forests, a good amount of forest roads and more challenging trails.

Falling Leaves Lahti has become the traditional closing event of the Finnish (gravel) cycling season. Part of the NGS calendar for the 5th consecutive season in 2024 we welcome you to a set of exciting routes. Distances of 50, 100, 145 and 180km. The 180km is the official Gravel Earth Series (long) distance. In addition you can also opt for a 300km 2 day option with overnight.