You asked for it, so we had to find a way to make it happen.

Jackalope is teaming up with the city of Hot Springs to make the OTCR a part of Gudrun - Northwoods MTB Festival.

The Ouachita Triple Crown Race (OTCR) will now be an annual event!

Venue: Cedar Glades Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas

Date: Friday, November 8, 2024

Start time: Noon

Registration: BikeReg

Packet Pick-up: 8am till 11am, Friday, Nov 8, 2024

Tracking Service: Trackleaders

Course: Ride with GPS

November 8! Not part of the ArHC Races

IMBA Epic Trails are the best of the best, and Arkansas has more of them that any other state.  The Ouachita Mountains, composed of rocky ridges and narrow, spring cooled valleys, is the perfect landscape for an IMBA Epic Trail.  The mountains are wild, beautiful, and rugged.

The Ouachita Triple Crown route was first mapped by Kenny Williams in 2019.  He wanted to link together three International Mountain Bike Association (IMBA) Epic Trails into one epic bikepacking route.  When connected by gravel roads, the Ouachita Trail (OT), the Womble Trail, and the Lake Ouachita Vista Trail (LOViT) create a circle around Lake Ouachita.