Will You Escape The Jungle and Be Crowned State Champion?
EVENT DETAILS
We’re psyched to be hosting the 2025 New Jersey State Championships as part of the annual Jungle MTB Escape Race!
Registration is open to all MTB racers and you do not need to be a New Jersey resident to enter the race,
We will do a podium for overall winners and then a second podium for NJ State Championships.
To qualify for New Jersey State Championship, participants must be a New Jersey Resident with a USA Cycling Annual License.
Equal Payouts for Men’s & Women’s 4 Hour Endurance and Pro / Cat 1 fields.
See the event page on BikeReg for All Categories and Start Times.
FUNDRAISING
Race is also a Fundraiser for NICA, JORBA & West Milford Volunteer Ambulance with $5 from each entry being split between the charities.
Equal payout of Cash prizes for Women & Men Pro/Cat 1 and Enduarnce Categories. Medals & Prizes for all other catgeories.
PARKING
One of the things we love about Jungle Habitat is that there’s tons of parking at the top of the hill.
By special arrangement with New Jersey State Parks, the main gate will be open – so go ahead through and up to the top for event parking.
Please note, there is a $5 NJ State Parks parking fee on race day, so please carpool if possible and either pre-pay parking in registration or bring exact change in cash.
RACE COURSE
Feedback from last year’s race was that the course was really challenging with the extended climbing section.
So we’re flipping the flow of the course back to how it was in prior years (You’ll be going up Otter Slide & Animal Chute).
Course will be extremely wel marked with purple arrows and survey tape to keep you on course.
There will be Orange signs to let you know when the Short/Long course split is approaching.
Sure we’ll tweak it a bit more based on course conditions and optimizing the flow.
Here’s a link to tthe preview ride we did in 2023 which is very similar to this year’s planned course with some tweaks to the back side of the course:
