The Tour of Utah has announced the race route for the 2005 stage race, hosted by Thanksgiving Point. Scheduled for May 26-30, 2005, the Tour of Utah is a five-day, six-stage event, taking professional and amateur cyclists along a course spanning the Salt Lake and Utah Valleys. While covering almost 500 kilometres, cyclists will be riding as far west as Tooele, Utah, as far south as Santaquin, Utah, and climbing to an altitude of nearly 9,000 feet. Although the first two stages are reserved only for professional categories, amateur categories will still cover over three hundred kilometres and participate in the gruelling "Nebo" climb.
The Tour of Utah competition begins in historic downtown Provo along the business-lined Center Street corridor. The downtown Provo city streets, blocked off for this stage, will be lined with spectators as they celebrate the final day of the Utah County Bike Week festivities at the Utah Transit Authorities Bike Bonanza. On stage two, the West Desert Road Race will test the professional categories by covering over 170 kilometres across the desert terrain of newly founded Eagle Mountain, Utah. This stage is expected to favour the sprinters.
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