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About Triple Trail Challenge - 2025 Edition

Get ready for an epic shake-up! The Triple Trail Challenge - 2025 The Figure 8 is here, bringing a whole new experience to your favorite ride. This year, we're totally transforming the route and adding exciting new features, all while continuing our tradition of supporting the trails you love.

Since 2020, the Tree Fort Bikes - Triple Trail Challenge has raised an incredible $100,000 for the Potawatomi Trail's Poto Revitalization Project, and for 2025, we're shifting our fundraising focus to the DTE Energy Foundation Trails. Every single penny of profit goes directly back into maintaining and improving these incredible trails.

What's New for 2025:

  • Totally Revamped Route: Prepare for a thrilling new course that includes never-before-ridden sections and a complete overhaul of the DTE Energy Foundation Trail portion.
  • Prospect Hill: Be among the first to conquer this brand-new, 1.3-mile section of singletrack, featuring one of the biggest climbs on the route! This exciting addition is exclusively open to bikes for the Triple Trail Challenge event only and will be closed to bikes after the event. Make sure you experience it while you can!
  • The Full Poto: Explore the Potawatomi Trail like never before! Our 2025 route incorporates all seven new sections and improvements from the ongoing Poto Revitalization Project.
  • Jolly Pumpkin Packet Pickup: Join the PotoMBA crew at Jolly Pumpkin in Dexter for packet pickup. Then check out their delicious pizza and great beers.
  • New Beer Sponsors: Quench your thirst with fantastic brews from our new sponsors, Jolly Pumpkin and North Peak Brewing Company.
  • DTE Projects: We're investing in the DTE trails! Get ready for a new pavilion at the Cassidy Parking Lot, providing a much-needed community hub for rides, events, and gatherings.

Event Details:

The Tree Fort Bikes - Triple Trail Challenge will run for two days: Friday, September 12th, and Saturday, September 13th! (Rain date September 14) This means pre-registration is mandatory, and once we hit our cap of 1,000 riders, entries will close. This is a lightly-supported, ride-at-your-own-pace event, allowing you to tackle the entire course or any variation you choose. There will be no day-of registration. Be sure to pick up your number plate, wristband, map, and any purchased gear at one of these convenient locations:
  • Tree Fort Bikes (1866 Whittaker Rd, Ypsilanti): September 8th - September 12th
  • Jolly Pumpkin Dexter (2319 Bishop Cir E, Dexter): Thursday, September 11th, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Morning of the event: Limited pickup available if you can't make the other times.
Whether you ride with friends or make new ones, join Tree Fort Bikes in supporting the Potawatomi Mountain Biking Association! Remember to bring enough food, water, a spare tube, pump, and all other essentials for a strenuous 45 mile ride. This year's incredible Triple Trail artwork is once again provided by the talented Dan Clark (of Barry-Roubaix fame). Don't forget that T-shirts and beer glasses are available for pre-order only.

This year's unique route kicks off at the Poto trailhead within Pinckney State Recreation Area.

From the Potawatomi Trail, you'll transition to a short gravel road leading you to Prospect Hill. Here, you'll experience some truly epic singletrack, exclusively open for the Triple Trail Challenge. Next, you'll navigate a few scenic gravel roads to reach the renowned DTE Energy Foundation Trail, where you'll get a taste of all four loops.

The journey continues onto sections of the Waterloo Pinckney Trail, another segment specifically accessible only for this event. Finally, you'll loop back to the Potawatomi Trail, where you'll encounter the challenging climbs and exhilarating descents that "Poto" is famous for, all ending in an epic finish at Silver Lake

The closest camping is available at Crooked Lake. You should book in advance by using this link this link.
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