May 16
2026
Carson City, Nevada
JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST

MAY 16, 2026, 8:00:00 AM PDT

dd

days

hh

hours

mm

minutes

ss

seconds

Until Paydirt

Win Silver in The Pine Nuts!

At Stetina's Paydirt, you can win yourself a massive 2oz silver ingot. These very special, and unique awards are made by hand from 99.9% pure silver. When we started Paydirt, the price of silver was merely $14 per ounce, but that has changed. The value of each of these bars has now soared past $100 apiece. They're our tip-of-the-hat to Nevada's history as the Silver State, as long as we can afford to produce them...

Schedule

FRIDAY

2:00 PM
Group Shakeout Ride
4:00 PM
Packet pickup opens
7:00 PM
Packet Pickup Closes | Dinner service ends.

SATURDAY

6:30 AM
Packet pickup opens
7:40 AM
Call to staging for all
8:00 AM
Mass Start
8:15 AM
Family Ride Start
11:30 AM
Expo opens for food, beer, and shenanigans.
First finishers expected!
3:00 PM
Awards ceremony
5:00 PM
Festival Closes

HOW IT WORKS

"Three timed segments. Two beautiful and challenging courses. And one mechanical bull! Stetina's Paydirt in Carson City, Nevada is a gravel race like no other.

In this video, Peter Stetina takes us out for a course preview so you can get a good sense of each segment, the overall landscape, and the feeling of the event, which will be held May 18, 2024. Joining the ride are friends like Levi Leipheimer, Clare Walton, Wayne Smith, and Nikki Peterson, who share their thoughts on tire width and strategy. Pete explains how the post-race time bonuses worked in 2023 for tossing tires and riding a mechanical bull."*

*Time for racing is no longer deducted in 2024, as additional prizes are now available for ANYONE to win at the festival games.

Paydirt makes my top 3 list of most fun events I’ve ever attended! I love the format with 3 different timed sections that allows competitive hard racing, but also fun camaraderie and group riding in between each section. Each of the 3 racing segments were so unique and different, showcasing so much of the Carson City area- I was blown away. And the aid stations and festival post-race was next level- super tasty food cart and local beverage options with everyone hanging out in a beautiful grassy park while everyone completed their day out there. It was truly one of my most fun days of 2023.

~Heather Jackson
2023 Women's Champion

Long Course

Strava

The 2026 long course has been modified to include some newer trails in Carson City's Prison Hills area as well as the return to an older approach to the Pine Nuts via Golden eagle Lane. This also brings us a new, 4th segment!

SEGMENT 1 is a brand new segment in Prison Hills.

SEGMENT 2 is the longest in distance at 18 miles, and technically demanding. We tend to see the majority of our flats on this first segment of our route.

SEGMENT 3 has been remapped to begin just after the Genoa aid station thus giving an edge to those riding on skinnier tires.

SEGMENT 4 is the grand finale -- a climb from Jacks Valley Road to HWY 50 on Clear Creek Trail: a smooth single-track ascent. You'll get blissed out, but don't let that turn into complacency or you'll wash out on a sandy turn.

Sign up

MEDIUM Course

Strava

We have an official medium course route this year!

Participants of the medium course will ride 9 fewer miles, eliminating the Clear Creek trail segment of our ride. But you will still ride the Indian Hills segment which is INCREDIBLY FUN! Medium course competitors will be scored on 2 segments.

Sign up

Get on the list!

Click the button below and fill out the form to be added to our email list.

JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST

You might also want to try: