The Highlands Gravel Classic 2025 features the beautiful Boston Mountains range of the Ozark Mountains of Northwest Arkansas—known as the Highlands! The event has been selected for the Trek UCI Gravel World Series, an Official UCI qualifying event for the UCI Gravel World Championships (Held in Belgium in 2024).
This is the REAL World Championships with ~20+ UCI Gravel World Series qualifiers in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, and only 2 in North America. Participants compete in their respective age categories. The top 25% of each age category qualify for the World Championships in their age group. If only a few riders are in a given division, the top 3 of that age division also automatically qualify. Highlands Gravel Classic has been selected because of the event producers’ knowledge and experience organizing world-class cycling events as the hosts of 5 prior UCI Cyclo-cross World Cups.
