Update: April 10, 2025
The Lost Coast Wildwood Century will be on August 2, 2025. The details can be found on the Wildwood Days website (once you get there, scroll down to find the ride info) and registration is on Bike Reg.
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Update: March 4, 2025
A Message from the New TUC Board:
We are sorry to report the TUC will need to be postponed for 2025. Unfortunately, we cannot get the issue with the IRS resolved in time to organize an event this year. We are still committed to keeping this legendary event alive and hope to plan an exceptional TUC ride in 2026. Stay tuned for details. We will keep people updated here on the website, the Facebook page, and via our email list of previous registrants.
If you are still itching to ride an epic course in Humboldt County this summer, we would like to propose you check out the Wildwood Days Lost Coast Century and Redwood Rides. This is a new event as of 2024 and due to the cancelling of the TUC this year, the ride organizers are going to include a century route using the TUC course. There will also be shorter course options available including riding the Avenue of the Giants and exploring gravel roads. The inaugural event last year was fun with good vibes and was received well by all, so we know if you decide to join this year you won’t be disappointed.
The Wildwood Days Rides are part of a larger festival in the Humboldt County town of Rio Dell. In addition to the ride, there will be barbecues, pancake breakfast, parade, craft fairs and vendor fairs, a car show, and other activities going on throughout the weekend, so there will definitely be something for everyone in your group to do.
Save the date for August 2, 2025 for the Wildwood Days Lost Coast Century and Redwood Rides. As soon as it is available, we will post the link here for registration and ride weekend details.
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Update: January 25, 2025
WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH THE TOUR OF THE UNKNOWN COAST?
AN UPDATE REGARDING THE 2025 EVENT
At the end of 2024, a new team of five volunteers stepped up to take over management of the Tour of the Unknown Coast. These folks are all veterans tour riders, and they are eager to keep this iconic event going. They hope to welcome riders of all levels of cycling ability to Ferndale later this year.
However, we’ve hit a snag. During the process of transferring management from the previous Board of Directors to the new Board of Directors, it was discovered that the TUC has run afoul of the IRS. In short, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit status has been revoked. Due to insurance and liability concerns, the new team cannot start organizing the 2025 event until the nonprofit status has been reinstated. This involves digging up old financial records and pleading the case with the IRS, and at this point we just don’t know how long that might take.
If you’d like to be placed on our mailing list and receive updates as they are available, please send an email to tourunknowncoast@gmail.com.