The jewel of multi-sport events in the Northwest the festival in Sunriver has become a destination race for athletes from across the nation as well as internationally.
The Pacific Crest Weekend begins this Friday morning, June 22, and the Celebration continues through Sunday June 24. The weekend festival will include a Health & Fitness Expo, great food, beer garden, live entertainment, fun, camaraderie, and to top it off, some of the best competitive racing you will find in the country.
Every year, during the last weekend in June, athletes, joined by their family and friends, converge on Central Oregon to take part in the Pacific Crest Sports Festival. The Pacific Crest is known as the jewel of multi-sport events in the Northwest and has become a destination race for athletes from across the nation as well as internationally.
The Pacific Crest Sports Festival includes the Tour de Crest Bike Tour, Long Course Triathlon, Endurance Duathlon, Marathon & Half Marathon, Olympic Distance Triathlon & Duathlon, 5K & 10K Run/Walk, a Kids Splash Pedal N Dash Triathlon and 1-Mile & ½ Mile Dash for ages 12 & under.
The 16th annual Pacific Crest Weekend Sports Festival provides a unique opportunity for athletes to complete and fundraise towards their personal causes. In the past couple years the groups have raised over $1 million towards their effort: Team in Training for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Three Rivers Care for Kids Foundation and Team Defeat MS.
Discover Sunriver Vacation Rentals is proud to share a long history of sponsoring, helping coordinate, staffing and volunteering for the event. It has grown in popularity over the years as more and more people participate and friends and family come to stay in Sunriver to support the athletes. “The event has become an incredible economic springboard into the summer season for our business,” says Larry Browning, President of Discover Sunriver Vacation Rentals, “participants, their family and friends are making a vacation out of the event, enjoying all that Sunriver and Central Oregon has to offer.”
