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Mountain Bike Events

Battle Creek Showdown August 23, 2025 Battle Creek Showdown is a decade long mountain bike festival hosted in the lodgepole pine and aspen forest in Elkwater, Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park. Only 45 minutes from Medicine Hat, over 200 riders race the highest elevations in Canada between the Rocky Mountains and Labrador. Afterwards, a locally-catered dinner is served. Local mountain biker of almost 20 years, Katie Courty has raced Battle Creek Showdown trails since year one in 2015 and says the welcoming and outgoing spirit has remained with a slightly more competitive edge. The memorable moments keep piling on. “It’s truly become a festival. Us and all our friends camp the week before and into the weekend. We often have the backend of the Elkwater Campground — it’s all bikers and everybody sits and hangs out at the campsite. It’s my most favourite weekend of the summer, hands down,” says Courty.

Badlands Bash May 31, 2025

Hosted for a second year in the coulee landscape at Echo Dale Regional Park, Badlands Bash brings over 100 riders to ride and kick off the Medicine Hat moun tain bike season. Gravity Sports owner and 670 Mountain Bike Club member Ben Roscoe co-hosts the event with owners of Hidden Gem Cycling Jessie and Tracy. Racers bike five downhill lines, and then the evening brings live music, bonfires, and bustling campsites. There are 10 designated campsites in the park, but a field is completely available for bikers to set up camp and celebrate moun tain biking until the stars come out. “Our mountain bike culture here is really strong. The trails here are pretty awesome and the event is for anyone who wants to ride,” says Roscoe.

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