Outdoor City USA Premieres three-Day Multi-Sport Outdoors Festival

Bend, Oregon Event Serves Up-Cycling, Running, Hiking, Climbing and How-To, Plus Music, Food & Fun for Outdoors Lovers From Kids to Pros

(Bend, Oregon, June nineteenth) “We as an industry need and want to get toward our clients, to interact with them, and recognize their reports with our merchandise. That emotional connection with our target market simplest comes from getting up close and private, and that is what Outdoor City is all about.”

That’s Outdoor City USA founder Beverly Lucas, speak from the CUSA base camp at Bend’s Mt Bachelor resort, in which an anticipated 10,000 exterior enthusiasts of every age, abilties, and disciplines will descend for 3 nonstop days in mid-September to journey, run, walk, hike, climb and hone competencies on a number of the maximum fantastic roads, trails and climbs in the united states of America. Not to mention sampling neighborhood Central Oregon tune, beer & wine, delicacies, and nightlife.

Lucas is a bicycle industry veteran with roots in product improvement, income, and marketing. The idea for OCUSA came about as a partnership between herself, Mt. Bachelor mountain lodge, Visit Bend, Visit Central Oregon, Oregon Outdoor Alliance, Oregon Office of Outdoor Recreation, and Economic Development Central Oregon (EDCO), she says. “I’ve been to bike festivals, change suggests, motorbike races, and occasions, from local time trials to World Cups to the Tour de France,” Lucas explains. “But I’ve by no means seen an opportunity that draws together all of them out of doors sports that households do collectively, along with my own. I knew we needed to trade that.”

What makes Outdoor City USA particular, she says, is a wide variety of sports and disciplines that enchantment to individuals of all ages and ability stages, and what she calls the competition’s “experiential basis”— possibilities for every attendee to get worried and not simply watch, from ‘strive-it’ activities to palms-on skills clinics to organization rides/runs/hikes and wall climbs, all of it supported through a large industry expo showcasing—and selling—modern-day and future products.

“Frankly,” Lucas provides,” I was getting bored with going to events wherein one member of the family participates, and anybody else stands around looking. I desired Outdoor City to be extra inclusive, mainly for women and kids.” The pageant is even canine-pleasant (on-leash and within the off-leash park), she explains.

Scheduled OCUSA occasions already include a gravel Gran Fondo; group, family, and character mapped road rides; cyclocross races; pass-us of a and downhill mountain motorbike racing; Big Air activities and demos; stability motorcycle races for children; 5 and 10K path races and fun runs; institution and circle of relatives hikes; and events and capabilities sessions on the large National Bouldering Championship hiking wall, which is so massive it has to be in particular introduced to the venue using a semi-truck.

The timing of the pageant is the ultimate complete weekend of summer, September thirteen-15, 2019. Temperatures are usually inside the mid-seventies with a sunny climate and funky nights within the forties. In addition to tenting in the Deschutes national woodland, which surrounds the venue, lodging is available inside Bend’s metropolis, and everyday shuttles make continuous 20-minute trips to the OCUSA venue at some stage in Festival hours.

The goal, says Lucas, “is to create the highest quality experiential outdoor sports activities pageant in which cyclists, runners, hikers, and climbers of all genders, a while and abilities can participate within the activities they love. And it doesn’t harm that when an afternoon of playing, they can leap directly into one in all our location’s rivers or lakes for a groovy-down and a lager or. I can’t consider everywhere else you can try this. No marvel the complete international desires to come here!”