RED BULL OUTLIERS
The ghost town of Steveville, Alta., is a quiet place — well, most of the time. You’d be surprised if you saw much else there but grazing cattle and the odd coyote meandering along the shoreline of the Red Deer River, except for on one day in 2021. On this exceptional day, you could expect to see RVs, tents, campers and pickup trucks loaded with dirt bikes as their occupants prepare to ride one of the toughest races Canada has ever seen. This day is when the Red Bull Outliers race took place.
Steveville, a place that would be easily missed if you blinked while driving through it, holds unique terrain that attracted 150 racers in August 2021 to test their skills and push their abilities in attempts to claim a spot at the top of the pack. As you drive through the rural flat farmlands there’s nothing in sight, until the ground parts and it looks as though the seam holding the world together has been pulled apart, exposing an expansive prehistoric section
