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2026 Angel Fire Round 1

Round 1 — Angel Fire: Registration Closes Tonight

Round One
Registration closes
Sunday night
Angel Fire · June 11–14
Online registration ends Sunday, June 7 at 11:59 PM MT.
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Who’s showing up
The pro field is loaded
Pro Women
Kailey Skelton
Kailey
Skelton
Ari Bikes
San Marcos, CA
Maylei Leaneagh
Maylei
Leaneagh
ZFR Racing Team
Frederick, CO
Pro Men
Nikolas Nestoroff
Nikolas
Nestoroff
Ari Factory Racing
San Marcos, CA
Kahlil Kem
Kahlil
Kem
Outlaw
Durango, CO
Aiden Chapin
Aiden
Chapin
ZFR Racing Team
Valencia, CA
Lucas DeDora
Lucas
DeDora
Frameworks
Long Island, NY
Online registration closes Sunday, June 7 at 11:59 PM MT — Register
Track preview
Asa Vermette previews the track
Fresh off winning his elite World Cup debut in South Korea, Durango’s Asa Vermette breaks down the Round 1 track at Angel Fire — and how it compares to the one he just won on.
 
Watch the preview
Cam McCaul
Live broadcast
Cam McCaul is on the mic
We’ve been working tirelessly to pull off a live broadcast for Round 1. We want every family to be able to watch their kid’s run up on the big screen. Every privateer to capture that breakthrough moment that gets them noticed by the factory teams. And the top pros in the sport to inspire the next generation of racers — the riders who’ll feed and grow this sport.
We’re absolutely honored to have Cam McCaul coming out to be the voice on the mic.
Photo: Nathan Hughes / Pinkbike
Coming soon
Free race media for every racer
We’re working on making sure every racer goes home with a ton of free media from the weekend — your photos, your video clips, and your full race run. We’re pushing hard to have the Race Companion App done by next weekend.
More to come.
Race media
Why this one matters
Racing in the Rockies is back.
This is a special moment for our sport. Round 1 is the start of the first true USAC-sanctioned gravity series the Rockies have seen in a long time.

I grew up here watching Aaron Gwin, Jared Graves, and the fastest riders in the world race these mountains. This region is where American mountain biking’s biggest moments happened — and in 2030, the World Championships return to America for the first time in nearly three decades. To Durango. To the Rockies. The only region in America that has ever hosted a World Champs in our sport.
’90
Durango
’94
Vail
’01
Vail
’30
Durango
Four for four. Every U.S. World Champs ever awarded — in the Rockies.
The road back starts this week, at Angel Fire. I’m proud to be a small part of bringing this region back to the place it once held in our sport — and if you’re on that start list, so are you.
— Shawn Neer, Founder & Race Director
Sunday · 11:59 PM MT
That’s the cutoff. Round 1 · Angel Fire, NM · June 11–14.
 
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From all of us
Thank you.
Shawn, Julia, and Bill at the top of the lift
A huge thank you to everyone who has already signed up — you’re the ones making this dream a reality. To everyone who cares about this region as much as we do. To the venues working with us, to the sponsors who came on board before we’d thrown our first race, and to every family spending their summer with us: thank you.

We’re honored to try to leave this sport in a better place than we found it. Here’s to making the Rockies the best damn place for mountain bike racing — like it was when I grew up racing here twenty years ago.
— Shawn, Julia & Bill
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