The Northern California Bigfoot

(the biggest, hairiest & most elusive of the mythical bigfoot creatures)

continues to challenge you with new & improved adventures in 2025!

Although some may challenge the existence of Bigfoot, our Bigfoot Adventure Challenge participants know that Bigfoot loves to have fun on our awesome trails. This year, our wild, hair-covered friend challenges us to adventure on our mountain bikes down the new K’ulu:l Trail off of Mule Ridge, on our gravel bikes in the Manton area, and the banks of the Sacramento River on the Yana Trail.  New this year: we are challenging those who ride mountain and gravel bikes and travel the trails on two feet to consider our multi-discipline passport.  Of course, adventurers can still submit multiple passports, BUT some might want the challenge of blacking out a passport with routes in all three disciplines.

Some keys we want you to think about as you plan your 2025 Challenge:

• Challenge Start & Finish: April 1–May 31

• 3 Routes | Win 2025 Socks
  Complete 3 routes in one of the challenges (MTB, Gravel, Trail or Multidisciplinary) and win socks (one pair per participant) and a challenge sticker (one sticker for each of the different challenges you submit a passport for). Please note that it is any three routes on the passport that are organized from less challenging to more challenging.

• All Routes | Win 2025 Blackout Hat
  Complete ALL the routes on one of the four challenge passports and win our cool Bigfoot Adventure Challenge hat.

• Trail Challenge
  Please note that the Trail Challenge is intended to be completed by running, hiking, walking, or a combination of all of the above.

• Plan Your Adventure
  It’s very important to note that our designed routes can be completed in a way that works best for you. Our mapping includes a trailhead start, BUT you can start your adventure anywhere along the best route for you. We are fortunate in Redding and our other Challenge communities that many of our routes can be started from your home, work location, and/or favorite coffee shop without driving to the actual trailhead. Start your adventure from the comfort of your home, intercept our mapped route at the best location for you, substantially complete the route, and check the box on your passport.

• Route-Ready
  Ensure you check the route pages on our website, as we will note whether we think the route is ready for you. We are fortunate to live in an area where snow can happen on the valley floor, and rains can fill our creeks. Oftentimes, our trails aren’t fit for humans or Bigfoot; plan accordingly.

• Volunteer Work
  Your shared trail experience with Bigfoot doesn’t come without some trail-building and maintenance fun. Throughout the Challenge, there will be opportunities for you to do some volunteer trail work with the Redding Trail Alliance. Visit their Get Involved Page for more information and/or your local trail steward partners, including Trinity Trail Alliance, The Watershed Center, the Mount Shasta Trail Association, and SORA. A day of trail volunteer work allows you to check one of the boxes on one of your passports without actually running or riding that route—what a deal for those of you who have a route that keeps you up at night!

• Drawing
  Each passport submitted (MTB, Gravel, and/or Trail) enters you into a drawing for a local adventure store gift certificate. You must be present at the Closing Party to win.

• Junior Challenge Adventure Kit
  We are awarding our junior adventurers an adventure kit with fun Bigfoot-related adventure tools. Don’t miss out!

• Dog Adventure Challenge
  We again have the Dog Adventure Challenge. All routes are short, intercept water, and fun for dogs and humans. The passport earns your dog a cool prize that you can pick up at our dog challenge partner, Tails of Rescue in Kahoots!