Tour de Wildwood - Oct 7th, 2018
2018 Tour de Wildwood - Sunday, October 7th
Online registration is open until ride start time Sunday - save $5 when you pre-register online!
Or come on down & register Sunday morning in person - we won't turn anyone away!
Ride will go, rain or shine!
We need volunteers to make a great ride! Click here to volunteer
We are very pleased to be able to partner with the City of Wildwood to offer 2018 Tour de Wildwood on Sunday October 7th, 2018. Ride a section of historic Route 66, visit Babler State Park and Rockwoods Reservation Conservation Area, and enjoy the beautiful fall leaves as you ride the low-traffic roads through the hills of Wildwood.
Win a bike! Every ride registration is an entry in a drawing to win a bike. Bike donated by Big Shark Bicycle Company.
NEW for 2018! Updated 50 MILE Long Route.
More about the 2018 Tour de Wildwood
Wildwood is in western St Louis County, convenient to everywhere in the greater St Louis area, and just an 1.5-2 hours to Columbia, Hannibal, Farmington, and Cape Girardeau and many areas of downstate Illinois. Hope you can join us!
Schedule
The ride starts and ends at Wildwood City Hall, 16860 Main Street, Wildwood, MO.
Sunday, October 7th, 2018:
- 7am - Registration opens (Inside Wildwood City Hall)
- 8am - Long route (50 mile) departs
- 9am - Short route (28 mile) departs
- 8-9am - FREE Traffic Safety 101 Class (details below)
- 11am-1pm - Lunch (at start/finish area)
- Note: The lunch trailer will CLOSE promptly at 1pm. The lunch trailer will be closed up and moved off site. Please plan to arrive at the finish line before 1pm if you want to enjoy the lunch!
- Lunch prepared by PM BBQ
- 12:30pm - BIKE GIVEAWAY - Every ride registration is a ticket for the bike giveaway drawing; we'll also sell raffle tickets on ride morning
TDW 2018 jersey willl be for sale at ride registration. More information coming soon!
Routes for 2018
All turns are marked with orange paint and "TdW" (for Wildwood) EXCEPT the section in Babler Park, which is marked with signs "Tour de Wildwood".
Where routes diverge, they are marked Long (L) and Short (S); also look for "Out" (outbound) and "In" (Inbound) where inbound & outbound routes meet.
Long and short routes are available:
- Short route, 28 miles (2018 Printable Map PDF - RideWithGPS - FIT - TCX - GPX)
- At your choice, you can shorten the route--14 mile and 22 mile routes are easy options, and you can make the decision mid-course
- Long route, NEW 50-MILE ROUTE for 2018! (2018 Printable Map PDF - 2018 RideWithGPS map - FIT - TCX - GPX)
- IMPORTANT NOTE: Long Route RideWith GPS, FIT, TCX, and GPX files were updated 2:00pm 6 Oct 2018 with a correction to match the PDF map and on-course route marks.
Routes are mostly on the beautiful low-traffic roads of Wildwood. Most TdW routes are on rural roads with 25-30 MPH speed limits.
The route passes through or along several parks, conservation areas, and Babler State Park. Several sections of the route are on historic Route 66.
Registration, Start/Finish, Parking
The Start/Finish for the Tour de Wildwood will be at:
Wildwood City Hall on Main Street in the Town Center
16860 Main St.
Wildwood, MO, 63040
Parking is in the parking structure directly north of City Hall or the surface parking lot directly north of the parking structure. 
Registration is inside City Hall.
Lunch (11am-1pm) will be served just outside City Hall.
Ride registration is $40 in advance, $45 day-of
Riders will enjoy a fully sagged ride, SAG stops with refreshments, lunch after the ride, and a LOT of goodies with ride registration--see below.
- MoBikeFed membership/renewal
- T Shirt
- Lunch following the ride
- Sag Support
- Bike Mechanic on site--thanks to Big Shark Bicycle Co.
- Rest Stop Refreshments
- FREE Bike Ed Class Registration (details below)
Click here to register for the 2018 Tour de Wildwood
FREE Traffic Safety 101 Course Sunday morning for TdW riders
Do you know all you need to know to safely ride a bike with traffic? Do you feel you know enough to teach your children how to ride cautiously and conspicuously while on their own? When you drive your car, are you confident on how to share the road with people on bikes? Do you know how to safely share the road with many other cyclists on a group ride? 
Tour de Wildwood riders are invited to join a Traffic Safety 101 Course ride-day morning--FREE with your TdW registration. The course will be on-bicycle and will cover traffic safety and group riding skills for cyclists.
The class will start at 8am the morning of the ride at Wildwood City Hall--immediately after the long course (48 mile route) departure time. After enjoying this fun and educational on-bicycle course for about 1 hour, you can immediately depart for the short course (28 mile route) at 9am.
The course is great for novice, intermediate, and experienced riders. It will be a hands-on course demonstrating and allowing you to practice skills such as dealing with traffic, negotiating intersections, and handling common group ride scenarios safely and confidently.
Traffic Safety 101 Registration: When you register for the ride, you'll have the option to add the Traffic Safety 101 class as a free option. If you'd like to register for the class only (or add the class later), just contact Gary Crews, City of Wildwood Director of Parks and Recreation (636-458-0440, ext. 126 or gary[at]cityofwildwood.com)
Volunteers needed!
We can't run an amazing event like this without some really great volunteers to help!
We have a nice package of perks lined up for our volunteers. For some volunteer jobs, you can volunteer AND ride.
Register for the ride
- Click here to register for the 2018 Tour de Wildwood
- Save $5 when you pre-register online. Online pre-registration is open through 6am ride day - after that come down and register in person.
Many thanks to the City of Wildwood for working with us to present the Tour of Wildwood this year!
Sponsors
Huge thank you to the 2018 Tour de Wildwood ride supporters and sponsors!
 City of Wildwood |  Big Shark Bicycle Company |  St. Louis County Police Department |
 Alta Planning + Design |
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Many thanks to Ryan Clymer for creating the GPS Track!
Photos from previous editions of the Tour de Wildwood are now online!
- 2017 ride photos
- 2016 ride photos
- 2015 ride photos:
- Photos by ride photographer Scott Schwartz (downloadable--look for 'download' arrow)
- TdW riders in Rockwoods Reservation by Missouri photographer Dennis Coello
- Ride snapshots (all downloadable--click on any photo, then look for the down-pointing arrow near the bottom RH corner)
- 2014 ride photos
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