Set in beautiful Grey County at the southern end of Georgian Bay starting and finishing in the town of Thornbury, Ontario, the area provides the ideal geography for a world class gravel event, with a broad variety of terrain under a variety of road surfaces leveraging the Niagara Escarpment and Beaver Valley for challenging climbs. The Blue Mountain Gravel Fondo will act as a qualifying event where the top 25% in each age group qualify for the UCI World Championship Gravel Event; Oct 8/9 Veneto, Italy.

The Blue Mountains Gravel Fondo is a gravel event organized by Bruce Bird, multiple UCI Gran Fondo World Champion in both time trial and road racing and organizer of the Blue Mountains Gran Fondo who was part of the UCI Gran Fondo World Series from 2015-2019. . Bruce is collaborating for this event with the organizers of the spring Classic Paris Ancaster. The event in Ontario’s lake region is a true Gravel paradise.