When is motorcycle week in sturgis

The town hosts plus events year-round from Camaro and Mustang car rallies to a frosty winter triathlon, a popular weekly summer mountain bike race series and Music on Main, a weekly summer music concert series.

While there are 30 miles of mountain biking and hiking single-track right from Sturgis trailheads, they connect to another miles of greater Black Hills single-track trails. Wear good hiking shoes, stay on the trail and avoid poison ivy that grows alongside the trail. The butte is considered a sacred place to Native American tribes who have been visiting the site for at least 10, years as evidenced by the artifacts discovered on the butte.

Today, more than 15 tribes continue to visit this spot to fast, pray and leave colorful bundles in the trees as prayer offerings.

Please do not disturb them when you visit. Merwin said the largest amount of calls are traffic stops and accidents, which so far compared to last year are nearly double.

Sturgis skipped the formal rally last year because of the coronavirus pandemic, but thousands of bikers flocked to the city anyway, leading to hundreds of coronavirus infections. Sections U. Science Technology Business U. Official: Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is the busiest in years. It's in all the inside activities that really put people at increased risk.

Stefan Baral, a physician epidemiologist and associate professor from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, said while there's an overall lower risk of COVID infection at this year's rally, due mainly to the public's access to vaccinations and coronavirus testing, the risk goes up as people head indoors.

The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally has a solid track record when it comes to large turnouts. Average rally attendance each year has totaled about , rallygoers for the past two decades. Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has given the rally her blessing and will appear in a charity ride. Vaccination rates were similarly low in the five counties where most rallygoers hailed from, according to an analysis of cellphone data from the Center for New Data. This summer's Sturgis rally takes place against a backdrop of summer blowouts in the U.

Many have left a trail of infections in their wake. Baral said the Sturgis rally offers "an incredible opportunity" to target and reach people who may have previously been vaccine hesitant, potentially creating "ambassador[s] of vaccination" when these individuals return to their respective communities after the event.