Vermont Events
Circus Ride in Braintree
September 15 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
The Circus Ride is a 20 to 40-mile race with no podiums, no timing, no winners, no prizes…just ride for the love of bikes and adventure!
Enjoy smooth gravel, two mountain gaps, woods roads, historic farmsteads, and amazing views all wrapped up with food, beer, live music, and a laidback Vermont vibe along scenic Braintree Hill.
The Circus Ride was named after the circus that traveled from Randolph to Rochester up and over Randolph Gap and back again in the early 1900s. It was noted that the elephants pulled the wagons up to the ridge and then they switched them to behind the wagons to ease them down the steep mountain road.