Two Rivers Adventure Race

The Two Rivers Adventure Race returns in 2024 as Rootstock Racing's premier one-day adventure race, combining mountain biking, foot travel, packrafting, and map-and-compass navigation, all within two hours of Philadelphia. The thirty-hour event, sanctioned by the US Adventure Racing Association, will serve as the inaugural championship for the Adventure Racing World Series (ARWS) North American Region. The stakes at the race are high: the winning team of the premier division will earn a free entry into the 2025 Adventure Racing World Championship in British Columbia, Canada!

The event will also serve as the final race in the inaugural Mid-Atlantic Autumn Adventure Series, which links together the Two Rivers with Broad Road Off Run's Fall Foliage for an adventure-filled October. Cash prizes available!

This year's race offers everything you have come to expect from Rootstock events: challenging navigation, rewarding checkpoints, plenty of strategy and route choice, and a fun and welcoming community. It is a course ready for top competitors, and it is accessible to newer racers excited to get their feet wet in overnight racing. While the Two Rivers is not a beginner race, we design the course with all caliber of teams in mind, using a "modified rogaine" format. All teams must complete a designated mandatory route which requires less navigational ability and is short enough that all teams should have time to reach the finish line with adequate baseline fitness. For more experienced teams there will be additional, optional checkpoints to challenge even the fastest teams and best navigators.

**For teams that are not interested in packrafting or not able to secure packrafts, we have designed an alternate course. Alternate course teams will be ranked behind any team that packrafts.

DIVISIONS: Single-gender and mixed-gender teams of 2-4 racers; male, female, and nonbinary solo athletes

• Teams in the premier division, mixed-3/4, are eligible to compete for the free entry to the 2025 ARWS World Championship. These teams must have competed in at least one additional race in the North American Series in order to earn the free entry. At least two members from the winning team must be on the roster for the World Championship. 

PRICE:

• Until July 30: $300 per person (see notes below on pre-registration)
• August 1 to September 30: $330
• October 1 to October 21, as space allows: $350 

DISTANCES:

• Trekking: 45
• Biking: 74
• Paddling: 16 miles
• TOTAL: 135 miles

ENTRY INCLUDES:

• A professionally designed course created by Rootstock Racing, one of the premier organizations in North America
• Water-resistant maps
• Live tracking
• Race bibs
• Comprehensive safety team
• Post-race awards banquet
• On-course logistics and support
• Overnight parking
• High quality event photos
• Points in both the USARA national rankings and the ARWS rankings