Arkansas Graveler 2026

Event dates: Tuesday, October 6th, 2026 to Sunday, October 11th, 2026

Event Registration Period: Friday, July 10th, 2026 to Sunday, October 11th, 2026

                                                                       Arkansas Graveler 2026

New for 2026- Pork Belly Ventures has partnered with the The Arkansas Graveler to provide you a wonderful fall experience on the Gravel Roads of Arkansas! 

We are Pork Belly Ventures LLC, a small company offering comfort and convenience on bicycle events all over the Midwest.  We’re very excited to be part of the Arkansas Graveler 5 day Gravel Ride. We will locate our campsite—our friendly crew and our entire infrastructure in each overnight town (this year that is Wynne/Village Creek State Park, Marianna/Mississippi River State Park, Helena, Stuttgart, and ending in Arkansas City) .  For this Event PBV will be providing a number of support functions including both baggage transport from overnight town to overnight town, Morning coffee, daily hot shower, a phone-charging tree, E-bike charging.  And we will be offering both our tent service and PHAT rooms. For lodging or camping, you can rent one of our air-conditioned rooms on a semi-trailer or use our rental tent service with foam thermarest pad for each sleeper.  

The list below gives a brief description of each service. More comprehensive descriptions are available under tabs for each service option. 

PHAT Rooms (motel rooms on a semi-trailer)

$1700 per room

Our PHAT rooms (Pretty Hot And Tempting) allow you to Glamp, not camp, on the Arkansas Graveler.  Using a room is the best way to enjoy the ride atmosphere, have a comfortable retreat, and importantly, get a great night's sleep in A/C.  All linens, blankets, pillows provided. Convenient electrical outlets and switched lights in your room.  You can park your vehicle next to your trailer.  The optimum number of room occupants is 2 or 3, but rooms can sleep up to 5. Here's a video on our PHAT rooms:

These rooms will be available beginning after your first day's ride on Tuesday  , through Saturday night for 5 nights total stay. 

Rental Tent and Set-Up Service

$245 per tent, single occupancy

$295 per tent, double occupancy

Our rental tent service will provide you with a 4-man tent (with duffels inside, it’s roomy for one and comfy for two) set up in each overnight town beginning on Tuesday after your ride and at each overnight town through Saturday night. The tent comes with an  a 1"inch thermarest foam pad and includes the moving of each riders bags from the tent and then back to the tent 

Cancellation policy for Arkansas Graveler PHAT rooms is: If you cancel your room prior to the event we will make every effort to resell your room right up until the event. If we are able to do, you will receive a 90% refund for the room. (On a $1700 room you would receive $1530.) If we are not able to resell the room, we will make no refund. This means the earlier you cancel the greater the chance of getting a refund. Thanks for your understanding. RentalTents are subject to our normal 1 month policy. Before September 5th we will offer 90% refund. After September 5th we will make no refunds. 

All riders must be registered to use PBV Services (tent or PHAT rooms). To Register use this link 2026 Arkansas Graveler Online Registration

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