Race Across Quebec

Race Across Quebec is the longest individual event in the Race Across Series, with distance options stretching up to 2,500 kilometres through the vast and largely uninhabited boreal forest of the Canadian province of Quebec. The event is modelled on the RAAM format and runs in self-supported style, with riders responsible for all their own logistics, navigation, and resupply across a route that passes through remote wilderness where services can be separated by 100 kilometres or more. Quebec's landscape is characterised by enormous coniferous forests, glacial lakes and rivers, and a climate that can be warm and humid in the lowlands but unpredictably cold at altitude or in the interior. The event runs in August, which offers the best combination of daylight hours and manageable temperatures, though humidity and insects are a factor in forested sections. The province has a deep French-speaking culture and a tradition of endurance sports, and the race attracts both local riders familiar with the terrain and international participants drawn by the scale of the challenge. At 2,500 kilometres, the maximum distance is exceptional — comparable in length to the Tour Divide or RAAM — making Race Across Quebec one of North America's longest self-supported road ultra events. Riders who have completed the series across multiple countries note that Quebec offers the most remote and logistically demanding experience of all the Race Across Series editions.