How to watch gravel races around the world - A guide to livestreams and free broadcasts for the biggest events including The Traka, Unbound Gravel and more

Want to catch the action from many of the world's most audacious and prominent gravel races without getting the dirt and grime splashed on your face? This wasn't even an option two years ago. Organisers are now adding live broadcasts to extend their reach to a growing global audience.

Early adopters for live streaming included US races Unbound Gravel 200 in Kansas and Gravel Worlds in Nebraska. In 2022, three of the Life Time Grand Prix events - Sea Otter Fuego XC, Unbound Gravel 200 and Crusher in the Tushar - attempted broadcasts but remote courses led to technical challenges which caused Life Time to pull the plug and only use social media posts for the final events.

By 2024, Lauf Gravel Worlds provided a robust live stream for the pro fields at the 150-mile race in Nebraska, which received approximately 51,000 views. They proved that technology to follow the action on rough, secluded roads had advanced from stationary cameras mounted to jeeps to extended flight-time drones, and people were starved for real-time coverage.

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"Not long ago, gravel racing lived in stories told at the finish line. In recent years, if you weren’t there, you only saw glimpses through Instagram live streams or story updates. Bringing live coverage to the sport with the incredible BCC Live [video production company Boulder County Communications] broadcast team changed that," Sofia Gibson, assistant lead promoter of Lauf Gravel Worlds told Cyclingnews.

"Fans now see the work required not only to win, but simply to finish a race like Gravel Worlds. That visibility pushes the sport forward while inspiring the next generation of riders."

Last year The Traka 360 had extensive coverage with a live stream of more than 10 hours which generated 71,000 views. The live, free-to-stream coverage of the Life Time Unbound Gravel 200 event attracted 332,000 views in 50 countries for a broadcast that lasted approximately seven hours, video kicking in four hours into the race and remaining live for all pro men's and women's finishes.

And while The Growler at Levi's GranFondo is not an off-road race, the roads are choppy and the field is stacked with top gravel pros who move from Sea Otter Classic on Thursday to this event one week later in Windsor, California. There will be more than 100 men and 70 women competing for a share of a $156,000 purse.

Elite men start at The Growler 7:15 a.m. PDT, with elite women on course five minutes later. The race will offer a free live broadcast, courtesy of Skipstone, beginning at 10:30 a.m. local time with the elite races in progress, available on the Bike Monkey YouTube channel.

The use of live tracking as riders pass checkpoints and social channels to provide segmented live footage and on-course updates are still part of the landscape, however. Stay tuned to Cyclingnews as we provide frequent updates on which events will offer live feeds for off-road races around the world.

Life Time Grand Prix

Four of the six races in this year's Life Time Grand Prix will provide live coverage for the 2026 season, beginning with Sea Otter Classic gravel race on Thursday, April 16. The Monterey, California race takes place on a 30-mile course, with broadcast cameras following the men's and women's fields for all three circuits. The elite men start at 10:00 a.m. PDT and the elite women start at 10:30 a.m. PDT.

Organisers Life Time used support from Orange Seal last year for broadcasts at signature events Unbound Gravel 200, Leadville Trail 100 MTB and the finale at Big Sugar Classic, and those return later in the season using multiple cameras on and off the course as well as cameras aloft.

"It’s amazing to see helicopters and drones following races like Unbound and Big Sugar. It’s something I never imagined in gravel just five years ago," former Unbound Gravel 200 winner Lauren De Crescenzo told Cyclingnews last year.

Sea Otter Classic launches the fifth season of the Life Time Grand Prix, with the invitation-only field, U23 riders and wild cards looking for valuable points to set the leaderboard.

Details on the trio of live streams for Grand Prix stops in Kansas, Colorado and Missouri will be confirmed later in the season. Last year the Unbound broadcast joined the elite races in progress at 10 a.m. CDT with nearly eight hours of racing action, Cameron Jones (Scott-Shimano) winning the elite men's race and Karolina Migoń (PAS Racing) taking the women's title.

Gravel Earth Series

The Gravel Earth Series leads the way with live streaming for all 11 of their events, a promise that was kept at Santa Vall for both days of the two-stage event near Girona, Spain. The series features 11 events in six countries, with live coverage shown on the official video platform at GravelEarthSeries.TV.

The next broadcast is scheduled for The Hills on March 28 for the 120km (74.5-mile) in Sardegna, Italy. Elite men will begin at 8:30 a.m. CET with elite women off the start line 10 minutes later.

On April 11 Gravel Desert will be featured from Huesca, Spain, then both days of The Traka, the 200km and 360km races, will be broadcast on May 1-2.

Both days of Santa Vall were broadcast, joining the elite women's race in progress, 30 minutes after the starts each day, and captured the men's starts, which took place an hour after the women. Replays of both stages are archived on the website, with Sofia Gomez Villafañe winning both stages and the GC for women, and her teammate Mads Würtz Schmidt winning stage 1 and the men's GC.

Broadcast schedule for gravel races in April and May 2026