Crankworx Whistler Mountain Bike Festival

July 24 – August 2, 2026

This world-famous festival celebrates the heart and soul of gravity-fuelled mountain biking. Crankworx Whistler brings together the best riders and biggest bike fans in the world for 10 days of racing, slopestyle competitions, Kidsworx events, bike demos and the chance to shred Whistler’s trails with other like-minded bike fans.

Travel Tip: Plan ahead to make the most of your events this summer. Avoid peak travel times, take advantage of car-free transport options and check your bike at the free bike valet.


Daily Events & Key Highlights for Crankworx 2026

Every day of the festival is packed with events, races and demonstrations, many of them free to watch. Learn about the events and check back often as additional events are being added to the spectator schedule.

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Daily

Time Event Location
12 - 5 PM Expo Skier's Plaza & Creekside
Various Demo Day Lot 2
Various Tech Day Lot 2
Various Events, Happenings & Parties Whistler

Saturday, July 25

Time Event Location
9 AM - 1 PM Kidsworx B-Line Bike Park
9 AM - 5 PM Canadian Open Enduro
Training
Whistler Valley and Bike Park
12 - 1 PM aMTB Flow
Finals
Bike Park

Sunday, July 26

Time Event Location
8 AM - 5 PM Canadian Open Enduro
Finals
Multi-stage race: Whistler Valley and Bike Park
10 - 11 AM aMTB Tech DH
Finals
Bike Park
10 AM - 2 PM Kidsworx Enduro
Race
Bike Park

Monday, July 27

Time Event Location
10 AM - 1:30 PM Crankworx Whistler Air DH
Amateur Finals
A-Line, Bike Park
Finish in Skier's Plaza
3:30 - 5:30 PM Crankworx Whistler Air DH
Elite Finals
A-Line, Bike Park
Finish in Skier's Plaza

Tuesday, July 28

Time Event Location
9 AM - 5 PM OG Canadian Open DH
Finals
Bike Park
8 - 10 PM Deep Summer Whistler Olympic Plaza

Wednesday, July 29

Time Event Location
11 AM - 2:45 PM Canadian Open DH
Group B Training
1199, Creek Zone, Bike Park
3 - 6 PM Canadian Open DH
Group A Training
1199, Creek Zone, Bike Park

Thursday, July 30

Time Event Location
9 - 10:15 AM Canadian Open DH
Group A Training
1199, Creek Zone, Bike Park
10:30 AM - 1 PM Canadian Open DH
Group A Seeding
1199, Creek Zone, Bike Park
1:30 - 3:15 PM Canadian Open DH
Group B Training
1199, Creek Zone, Bike Park
3:30 - 6 PM Canadian Open DH
Group B Finals
1199, Creek Zone, Bike Park
8 - 10 PM Dirt Diaries Whistler Olympic Plaza

Friday, July 31

Time Event Location
8 AM - 1:30 PM BOSCH eMTB Challenge
Finals
Bike Park & Valley
10 AM - 3 PM aMTB First Track Bike Park & Valley
2:30 - 5 PM Canadian Open DH
Group A-1 Finals
1199, Creek Zone, Bike Park
6:30 - 8 PM Official Whip-Off World Championships presented by POC Bike Park

Saturday, August 1

Time Event Location
8 - 9:15 AM Specialized Dual Slalom Whistler
Amateur, aMTB, CWNext Training
Bike Park
9:30 AM - 1:15 PM Specialized Dual Slalom Whistler
Amateur, aMTB, CWNext Qualifying / Ladders / Finals
Bike Park
3:45 - 6:15 PM Specialized Dual Slalom Whistler
Elite Qualifying / Ladders
The Boneyard, Bike Park
6:30 - 8 PM Specialized Dual Slalom Whistler
Elite Finals
The Boneyard, Bike Park

Sunday, August 2



Time Event Location
8 - 10 AM Crankworx Slopestyle
Training
The Boneyard, Bike Park
10 AM - 12:30 PM Crankworx Slopestyle
Finals
The Boneyard, Bike Park
3:30 - 5 PM Crabapple Hits
Finals
Crabapple Hits, Bike Park
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Athlete Information

Visit the Crankworx website for registration and athlete information.

Event Details for Crankworx Whistler

Scroll down and select to find out more about each exciting event.

Crankworx Expo, Demo & Tech

The Expo at Crankworx Whistler gives the biggest names in mountain biking and event sponsors a chance to showcase their stuff. Whistler Village comes alive with the vibrant tents and interactive displays of all the industry heavyweights. For all the latest information on products and services, you've gotta check out the Expo!

The Demo zone is in Lot 2 Across from Pan Pacific Whistler Village Centre. The most respected brands in the industry will be in the demo zone with their newest Trail, DH and Freeride bikes for you to try for free. On your way, check out the Tech Zone, the beating heart of professional mountain biking, where bike savants wrench on prototype bikes, interacting with riders as they chill at their team trailers between training runs and races.

The Tech Zone Expo and Demo Details

Kidsworx Event Series

A series of events designed for the next generation of cyclists with mini-challenges, races and skills sessions available throughout the week. All levels of riders are provided for with events including a dual slalom clinic and challenge, a dirt pump track clinic and challenge, scavenger hunts, as well as enduro and DH races.
Kidsworx Event Information and Schedules

Canadian Open DH

The RockShox Canadian Open DH course is a one-run takedown of Whistler's 1199 trail, with rooty singletrack, steep rock drops and big air features. This is one of the biggest events of the festival, attracting elite downhill experts from around the world. Pro, aspiring and amateur racers, claim your spot at the start gate. Fans, grab your spot on the track and get ready to take in the speed and skill of some of the world’s fastest.
Event Details

Crabapple Hits World Championships

The newest legacy event in the Crankworx Whistler lineup lands in the legendary Crabapple Hits, where style, speed and progression collide. Bringing together top slopestyle and downhill athletes in a head-to-head format, the Crabapple Hits World Championships turn one of Whistler Mountain Bike Park’s most iconic features into a high-stakes showcase of skill, creativity and big-mountain riding.

Bosch eMTB Challenge

Set against the legendary terrain of Whistler Mountain Bike Park and the surrounding Valley Trails, the Bosch eMTB Challenge is a one-of-a-kind race that combines eMTB racing with navigation and endurance. Riders take on a challenging course with 1,000 m - 1,500 m elevation gain, navigating a mix of timed stages and untimed transfer segments.
Event Details

Liv A-Line

Liv Cycling Canada and Crankworx Whistler are happy to give women an opportunity to enjoy one of the world’s raddest trails with ease and confidence. Although it is solely a freeride session, bike park coaches and Liv ambassadors are on hand during this women’s-only event. Tips, tricks, and guidance help participants at those more challenging spots, giving everyone a chance to take their skills to the next level or just have fun with friends in the comfort of a closed trail.
Event Details

Adaptive DH - Flow

The third year of Crankworx Whistler Adaptive racing sees the return of the B-Line DH giving Adaptive Athletes a flow style of course in the Whistler Bike Park.
Event Details

Adaptive DH - Tech

The return of the Garbo DH gives rise to the Adaptive DH Tech featuring the lower trails of the Fitzsimmons Zone for an AMTB Technical DH.
Event Details

Dirt Diaries

Crankworx and Whistler Blackcomb celebrate the creative spirit and storytelling culture of mountain biking in this video throw-down that’s produced some iconic content over the years. Six filmmakers bring us the ride of our lives this summer, showcasing a slice of one athlete’s diary. These four- to six-minute videos begin production early summer and hit the big screen during Crankworx Whistler. Submissions are judged based on storyline, videography, riding and editing, then screened in front of a massive audience under open skies at Whistler Olympic Plaza.
Event Details

Crankworx Whistler Air DH

Since 2004, the Air Downhill has been the heart of Crankworx Whistler. Arguably the most famous trail in the world, A-Line is the stuff of mountain bike legend and lore, renowned for its iconic drops, jumps on jumps on jumps, and giant, sculpted berms. You'll see speed and style in this epic race.
Event Details

Deep Summer

The Deep Summer Photo Challenge is a crowd favourite every year, capturing the best of mountain bike culture in the Sea to Sky Corridor, from Squamish to Pemberton. Over the course of the challenge, five photographers – plus one wildcard – will shoot for their lives during the first Crankworx weekend, putting together an epic slideshow set to music. Presentations will then light up the night under the stars at Whistler Olympic Plaza and a massive crowd will experience deep summer in Whistler through six different lenses.
Event Details

Official Whip-Off World Championships Presented by POC

Skill and style reign supreme in this event that brings together the best racers and freeriders in the biz. The Whip Off World Championships combines big attitude with big whips, as riders duke it out to win the admiration of the crowd, the respect of their peers and, ultimately, the title of king or queen of killer whips.
Event Details

Specialized Dual Slalom Whistler

This old-school race format pits two competitors against one another in a side-by-side battle against the clock’s cruel hand, battling to avoid elimination. Enduro experts, downhill champions, freeride legends, and masters of style – they all line up at the Slalom start gate to see who can bring together the most explosive run through tight turns, jumps and rhythm sections. Riders take one run down each side of the course, with the fastest combined time taking the win. Whistler’s race has now expanded into a Crankworx World Championship discipline, with races staged at each stop on the Crankworx World Tour.
Event Details

Crankworx Slopestyle

The season-defining conclusion of the Crankworx FMBA Slopestyle World Championship and the Triple Crown of Slopestyle, this event brings together over 35,000 fans on the ground, and millions more around the world. Steeped in 15+ years of tradition, this is the most challenging event on the circuit. The 12 best male riders and 6 best female riders in the world bring their A-game to this invitational showcase, interpreting a custom-built course and giving it their all.
Event Details

Canadian Open Enduro

Riding clean and fast on showcase trails with friends and legends is the order of the day in Enduro racing. The trails selected for this multi-stage race will reward the generalist over the specialist, while showcasing the best of Whistler's rooty, coastal rainforest trails and challenging scree steeps of the Whistler Mountain Bike Park.
Event Details

OG Canadian Open DH

Straight down, no mercy, under the watchful eyes of downhill fans around the world. The OG Canadian Open DH course is a one run take-down of Whistler’s rooty singletrack. Staged on the first weekend of Crankworx, this is one of the biggest events of the festival, attracting elite downhill experts from around the world. Pro, aspiring and amateur racers, claim your spot at the start gate. Fans, grab your spot on the track and get ready to take in the speed and skill of some of the world’s fastest.
Event Details

Events, Happenings & Parties

Outside of competition, there’s a ton to do, see and experience at Crankworx Whistler every day, like women's only rides, adaptive MTB sessions, film screenings, athlete signings, afterparties and more.

Stay 3+ Nights and Receive a Free Activity Voucher*

Stay longer than a weekend this August. Stay 3+ nights and receive a free $100 Activity Voucher. Extend your stay and have more time to enjoy all of the action taking place during Crankworx.

Offer Details:

Book 3+ nights and enter promo code SUMMER2026 at check-out or call 1.800.944.7853 and mention the offer to one of our Travel Consultants when booking.

  • Stay 3 nights or more, receive $100 CAD
  • Stay 5 nights or more, receive $200 CAD

Book by June 30. Available only at Whistler.com while quantities last.

*Activity Vouchers can be used towards activities and/or transportation on Whistler.com. Valid for 3+ and 5+ night stays with arrival dates between April 15 and October 31, 2026. Unused Activity Vouchers expire on October 31, 2026. Vouchers are only available while quantities last.

Spectator Information for Crankworx Whistler

VIP Tickets & Packages

Riders aren't the only ones who will feel on top of the world at Crankworx. Purchase VIP tickets and packages for exclusive access to VIP zones at major events and experience the excitement up close. VIP Passes are available for Crankworx Slopestyle and the Canadian Open DH. Buy festival passes now on the Crankworx website.

Getting Around – Transit

Parking can be a challenge on the weekends, take advantage of car-free transport options and enjoy free bike parking on weekends.

Getting Around – Parking

Paid parking is available in Whistler Village in Day Lots 1, 3, 4 and 5 for the duration of Crankworx. Day Lot 2 is not available for parking, as it is home to the Crankworx Tech and Demo Zones, however, there is free parking in Day Lots 6, 7 and 8 on Blackcomb Mountain. Learn more about parking in Whistler.

Free parking for the Canadian Open DH event in Creekside is available on a first-come, first-served basis at the Whistler Creekside Parkade. The Parkade is located directly across the street from Creekside Gondola. A public shuttle will be in operation from Legends Whistler to the finish area (Creekside Timing Flats) on race days only.

Free Bike Valet

Check your bike at the free bike valet on select dates during Crankworx Whistler.

Biking During Crankworx

With plenty of bike enthusiasts in town for the festival, expect a higher volume of people on the trails, more people looking for services and parts and a lower availability of rental bikes. Book your bike-friendly-accommodation, bike rentals and make restaurant reservations well in advance for a smooth festival.

Note that due to events being held in the Whistler Mountain Bike Park, trail closures will be in effect. Check out the Bike Park website for trail closures, or check in with Whistler Blackcomb Guest Services on the day.

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Spectators cheering in Whistler, BC, on a sunny hillside beneath a chairlift during Crankworx.

The Mountain Bike World
Comes Home

The Insider tells you what to expect at the world's largest celebration of mountain biking, Crankworx Whistler, for Summer 2026.

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