2025 Registration is OPEN!
Monte Sano State Park Lodge, Huntsville, AL
Mark your calendars for October 16-19, 2025!!
Shuttles, group rides, races, games, silent auction, RAFFLE, vendors, music, food, swag, and MORE!
Volunteer for at least 3 open opportunities over the course of the weekend, and receive a discount code for 20% off of your festival registration ticket!
Registration
(You will need to complete registration and check out by using the shopping cart icon at the top of your screen once you have filled out the registration form after choosing your options.)
Ticket Info
Pick up Wristbands at Ground Control (the Monte Sano State Park Lodge) any time during festival hours each day!
$80 advanced online registration (through September 13th) will give you access to the HAMR Fall Fest and all swag, rides, shuttles, etc.!
$95 registration after September 13th or in-person registration at the event - this will include swag while supplies last.
$50 day passes (online or in person). Does NOT include registration goodies.
$20 daily spectator passes (includes meals and hanging out - no rides, shuttles, races, swag, etc.).
Entry fee into Monte Sano State Park will also be required each day. There will be an attendant at the pay booth to collect your money. If you are a Huntsville area local and do not have an annual pass, we strongly recommend purchasing one.
What’s included?
Breakfast Saturday and Sunday, Dinner Friday and Saturday, registration swag (as applicable), all group rides, scavenger hunt, parking lot games, shuttles, clinics, yoga class, limited beers Friday and Saturday evening, race entries.
What’s NOT included?
Daily entry fee to the park, Lunches (food trucks on hand!), Little Hammies registration cost, lodging/camping cost, raffle tickets, any additional merch from vendors.
Schedule
Thursday, October 16th
4:30 PM: Join us at the Space and Rocket Center for a short group ride (bring your lights)! This trail system is beginner friendly and was the first NICA race system built in Huntsville!
After the ride, head over to the big rocket at the SRC for a German dinner and biergarten featuring live music! HAMR is being honored as the non-profit of the evening, so 10% of food/beverage sales from the evening will go to HAMR!
HAMR is pleased to welcome our adaptive sports friends and fellow non-profit organization Catalyst Sports to the festival this year!
Friday, October 17th
12:00 PM: Lunch sponsored by Taco Mama for SORBA Fall Board meeting chapter representatives at the MSSP Lodge
1:00 PM: SORBA Fall Board meeting commences at the MSSP Lodge
3:00 PM: Festival Registration Opens at the MSSP Lodge
5:30 PM: Group rides (beginner, intermediate, adaptive options) - bring your lights!
6:30 PM: Dinner social and music by local band The Trades at the amphitheater next to the MSSP Lodge!
Sat, October 18th
8:00 AM: Registration Opens at the MSSP Lodge
8:00-9:30 AM: hot breakfast with coffee provided by local roaster Coffee Break Coffee!
9:00: Yoga class with Light on Yoga Fitness. Bring your mat or towel!
8:30-10:00 AM: Beginner Skills Clinic with Donovan Johnson of Southeast Shreds LLC
9:30: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Ladies Group rides
10:00-3:00: Shuttles
9:30 AM-5:30 PM: All Festival Events:
Strava-based segment races
Catalyst Sports adaptive bike demos!
Vendors
Silent Auction/Raffle tickets are live!
10:00 Little Hammies optional clinic
11:15 AM: Little Hammies Race ($15 via Hammies website)
11:00-2:00: Hippea Camper, Southern Wagyu, and Mo’Bay Beignet Co. will be slinging Lunch/Snacks!
1:00 - 3:00: Beginner and Intermediate Group rides
1:00 - 2:30: Advanced Skills Clinic with Donovan Johnson of Southeast Shreds LLC. and Max Klein of the Little Hammies!
5:00: Whip-Off Contest on Bluebell Holler Trail!
6:00 PM: Dinner (homemade chili from some of our amazing volunteer families!) and Brews with live music provided by Wildlife in the Working Class at the amphitheater!
Parking lot games!
7:00 PM: Silent Auction Ends, Raffle winners drawn, all winners of races/games announced
Sun, October 19th
8:30 AM: Registration Opens at the MSSP Lodge
8:30-9:30 AM: hot breakfast with coffee provided by local roaster Coffee Break Coffee!
9:00: Scavenger Hunt Opens!
9:30-2:00: Shuttles
9:30: Beginner and Intermediate Group rides
2:00: Scavenger Hunt Winners Announced!
3:00: Closing Time - You don’t have to go home, but the volunteers and vendors are!
Parking
Ground Control (the parking area around the Monte Sano State Park Lodge) will be reserved for vendors, sponsors, and volunteer parking, and will be setup for all festival activities! Those who have paid for boondock camping will be given a card to also park in this lot at registration.
Participant parking will be available at the following locations - parking volunteers will be out in the mornings on Saturday and Sunday to help you get parked in the picnic loop and grass field.
-Picnic Loop (first right inside the park) - this is the largest parking lot inside the state park! We encourage parking here and riding your bike/walking to Ground Control directly next to it!
-Hikers parking lot (small parking lot)
-Overlook parking (small parking lot)
-Scoble pavilion/bikers lot parking (mid-sized parking lot)
-For those camping, we also recommend parking at your campsite for the weekend and riding your bike to festivities!
Please do NOT park along park roads, or in front of cabins. Park in designated parking spaces ONLY. Please follow all posted signs and speed limits inside the park.
Lodging Options
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Boondock Outside the Lodge!
As an add-on to your Festival pass, you can choose to boondock camp for $20/night in completely primitive sites just outside of the lodge. These were the original campsites inside the park before the campground was built. You’ll have access to the lodge restroom overnight and will be given a pass to place in your window to park in the lodge parking lot. Just select this add-on when registering for the festival!
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Monte Sano State Park
Monte Sano State Park offers 23 Primitive (tent only) campsites, 69 Water & Electric sites, and 21 Full- Hook-Up sites. All primitive and improved campsites include a fire pit. Campground is equipped with two bath houses that house coin laundry facilities, and two dump stations.
Also available are 11 stone cabins with a working fireplace and screened in porch.
Timberline Glamping also has glamping sites available!
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Hilton Garden Inn Special Rate
HAMR has a special group rate on a block of hotels at the Hilton Garden Inn in South Huntsville. Use this link when booking to get our rate!
Race Info
Strava-based races will run all day Saturday:
Hit these segments as you go about your scavenger hunt, group ride, shuttles, or solo them to get your best time! Strava rides will need to be set to “Public” so that they show up on the daily leaderboard.
Top 3 male and Top 3 Female racers on each segment will be awarded at the end of the day Saturday!
Downhill Segment
Bluebell Holler Alt (the blue line that includes the wall ride) left to Sinks, right to Mountain Mist, Right to Mist Opportunity, straight to The Portal, down Closed Road to Bankhead Trail, to Dallas Branch, to the bottom of Oak Park! Aren’t you glad there’s a shuttle back to the top?! Route Link
Uphill Segment
You know you’ll be riding back up from the new flow trails anyway - why not race up to the top? From the bottom of Full Monte and Bluebell Holler, right onto Sinks, straight/left onto D Breaze Way, left/straight onto Sinks, right onto Mountain Mist, left onto Tally-Ho, straight back onto Sinks back up to Ground Control. Route Link
Loop Segment
Start on Bucca Family Trail (across road from Ground Control lot), right onto South Plateau at O’Shaunessey Point, left onto McKay Hollow, down McKay to a left onto Rocky Nightmare, right onto Goat Trail, left back onto D Breaze Way, left/straight up Sinks Trail, up Sinks back to Gound Control. Route Link
Little Hammies!
The Little Hammies will be on-hand for a kids’ race (ages 12 and under) taking place at the Monte Sano State Park Lodge starting at 11:15 am on Saturday! Sign up begins at 10:30 am and the course opens for warm-ups at 10:40 am.
An optional 30 minute bike skills clinic will be offered at 10 am for $25.
If your kiddo is ONLY participating in this race, not the rest of the festival, you don’t need to buy a full festival ticket for them, just see the Little Hammies page and register for their race. $3 of the $15 entry fee will be donated back to HAMR!
GAMES!
Saturday Whip Off Contest!
Join us on one of the big tabletop features on one of the NEW downhill trails, Bluebell Holler, for a whip-off contest taking place at 4:00 on Saturday afternoon! Register at Ground Control/the Monte Sano State Park Lodge (free for festival attendees!) any time before 3:00 on Saturday if you’d like to participate!
Spectators are highly encouraged to cheer on riders participating! A panel of judges will determine the best whip of the event.
Best whip of the event will bring home this awesome HAMR trophy produced by a local welder! Keep it for the year, then bring it back next year to try to defend your title!
Parking Lot Games
Multiple games will be going on throughout Saturday evening!
HANDUP Gloves will be parking lot game winner prizes!
Games include (not limited to):
-Bunnyhop and limbo competition
-Track Stand contest
-16” wheel mini/kids bike race for adults (and kids)
Sunday Scavenger Hunt
Clue sheets guiding you to 5 different points of interest throughout Monte Sano State Park and Monte Sano Land Trust can be picked up at registration Sunday morning for anyone wishing to participate! The first person or first team of two to complete all five and return to the registration area at the Monte Sano Lodge will win a prize! To win, you will need to show a photo of yourself at each of the locations.
Participation stickers will be provided to everyone who successfully completes the scavenger hunt!
Skills Clinics
Join Donovan Johnson of Southeast Shreds LLC. for Beginner and Intermediate clinic options throughout the weekend, as well as an Advanced Drops and Jumps clinic hosted by both Donovan and Max Klein of the Little Hammies on Saturday!
Beginner
Beginner clinics will cover basics such as level pedals, body/bike separation, cornering, and more.
Intermediate
Intermediate clinics will cover wheel lifts, bunnyhops, manuals, and more!
Advanced
Take a jump-specific advanced clinic on our NEW trails Full Monte and Bluebell Holler!
Festival Happenings
2025 Silent Auction
YMCA family membership, a custom lantern from local artist Jhanie Kunkel, a Breeze Airlines flight voucher from HSV, a fork or shock rebuild from B Line Suspension, weekend stays at fun destinations including Mulberry Gap and Timberline Glamping, and more!
RAFFLE!!!
2025 Raffle Item will be a custom wheel build by Trailhead Inc.!
$2 for one ticket
$10 for six tickets
$20 for fifteen tickets
LOCAL BEER
Local brews from our brewery sponsors including Back Forty and Straight to Ale will be on hand for those 21+
N/A options from Athletic Brewing Company, as well as sodas and water will also be available
Guided Rides
Multiple options for rides all weekend for riders of all skill levels, including a Ladies’ Ride on Saturday! Check out the schedule and routes here!
Shuttles!
Shuttles will be out and about on Saturday and Sunday to get you to some of our favorite downhill trails without the hassle of all that climbing: Bankhead Trail, Oak Park Trail, and Bluffline Trail included!
Bike Valet Services!
Keep your bicycle safe while you enjoy HAMR's Fall Fest! Huntsville Urban Bike Share Coop (HUBS Coop) is running a bicycle valet from 11:30 AM to 6 PM on Saturday October 12th.
What is a Bicycle Valet? A bicycle valet is a like a coat check for your bike. You come up to our booth, hand us your bike, and we give you a numbered ticket. A separate ticket with the same number is attached to your bike. We then store the bike in a monitored, secure area. When you are ready to grab your bike, just give us your ticket, and we match the number to your bike.
Let’s support our trail partners who make this festival possible!
Please shoot us an email if you would like to support our annual fall festival!
