About the Lost and Found
Hosted in the wide-open and high North Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, the Lost and Found Gravel Festival is a grand bike ride and festival celebrating mountain life.
The Lost & Found course features a perfect blend of pavement, dirt road, gravel road and epically beautiful views. Legendary for it's big mountains, vast vast alipine valleys and spectacular fields of wildflowers, racers must choose their bike wisely as you're not in Kansas, this is the high Sierra.
The weekend starts with a Friday shakout ride around the beautiful Lake Davis, with the main event on Saturday of long, medium and shorter race routes offering big challenges for riders of various levels, from the head down racer to the big mile crushers to the physically inspired. Then enjoy a well deserved recovery and swap race stories at the after festival with tasty food, libations, and live music. Then close it out with a solid night of camping under the Sierra stars. This is a solid weekend to remember.
“While there are people, including pros, who come to the weekend to race, plenty are out there enjoying the high Sierra vistas and camaraderie. The camping is exquisite, and festival vibes are welcoming. Eleven years after the first Lost and Found, it is darling gravel.”
– John Watson, The Radavist
Inspired artwork by Bryan Buswell.
All routes start in Portola at the City Park and lead into the surrounding mountains through some of the most beautiful and vast alpine valleys California has to offer.
Participants can choose to race or simply ride the route and take advantage of the quality aid stations. Racers and riders from around the world will be invited to lose themselves and find this two-wheeled paradise.
Saturday ride and post event fun in Portola with food, beer, live music, and dancing - the way we like to do it! The festival also celebrates custom frame builders with the Builders For Builders tent, showcasing beautifully crafted frames handmade by the top U.S. fabricators. Many of the builders also take part in Lost & Found on Saturday! Come join us for a great weekend in the Lost Sierra.
If you need more inspiration check out this short video of the 2023 Lost and Found!
Video by Spanish Peak Productions
Proceeds from the Lost & Found go right back into the trails through the Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship
Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship
