Houffa Gravel

At the end of the summer holidays, on Saturday 30 August, Houffa Gravel will be an absolute classic on the calendar. Houffa Gravel is, just like Turnhout Gravel, a qualifier for the UCI Gravel World Championships 2025 and this year it will have a renewed course! In 2026, Houffalize will welcome the European Gravel Championships. In function of this, the course will be thoroughly redesigned. You will discover the renewed course for the first time on August 30 during Houffa Gravel!

The course winds around the famous mountainbike city of Houffalize, starting from the main square in the city center.  The steepest climb of the days follows directly after the start with the famous Rue du Saint Roch, one of the steep road climbs during Liège Bastogne Liège.  The first gravel section follows after 1.6km.  80% of the route is offroad.

The eastern first part of the course is challenging on rolling hills but wide open gravel roads with from time to time a longer uphill section.  The sector in between km 27 and 33 is hard with additional difficult parts around km 50 and km 73.

The shorter 68km distance follows exactly the same routes to make a shortcut after 66km to turn left where the 110km long distances starts a second southern loop with less vertical elevation.