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2025 York Cycle Rally & Festival: final campsite details!
This mailing is sent to you in connection with your York Rally / York Cycle Festival campsite booking. See our full privacy policy.
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Many thanks booking your 2025 York Cycle Rally & Festival campsite pitch in advance. We can't wait to see you this weekend, and here are some final details for a smooth arrival and stay.
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WARNING: Hot weather expected
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Please prepare for a hot weekend, with temperatures expected to be up to around 30 degrees. As well as suncream, hats etc please take care to keep well hydrated!
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By bike or on foot, please just come in through the entrance at the Racecourse end of Knavesmire Road.
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If coming by car/motorhome/caravan, please come to the entrance half way along Knavesmire Road (opposite the junction with Knavesmire Crescent). The best satnav postcode to use is YO23 1EX - although that postcode sometimes takes you fiurther along Knavesmire Road to the Racecourse buildings (please turn around if so!). What you need is the big gates on Knavesmire Road: see them here on Google Streetview. There’s plenty of room to swing in even with a big caravan.
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You’ll then be marshalled to park up so that you can check in before you move onto the campsite itself – please just follow directions.
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You will need to visit the check-in tent (the small tent on the right hand side of the road just after you've crossed over the horse racing track) to check in and receive details of your allocated pitch, before you move onto the campsite itself.
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- If you arrive by bike or on foot, you can go straight to the check-in tent from 3 pm.
- If you arrive in a motor vehicle, please park up in the main car park and do not attempt to drive across the horse racing track onto the main campsite (unless marshalls instruct you to). Please go on foot or by bike to the check-in tent, which will be open for pre-booked campers from Friday 3 pm. We cannot allow motor vehicles on site before 4 pm: the volunteer set-up team needs the time to fully prepare the site and make it safe.
- As you queue for the check-in please keep the roadway clear.
- Campers arriving on the Friday should note that there will be food and real ale available on Friday evening from our caterers on site – and do please support the on-site vendors, as a percentage of the takings goes to help support the Rally.
- The camping fee covers Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. The site must be vacated by 10am prompt on Monday morning please.
- The site speed limit for ALL vehicles is 5 mph. This includes cyclists! The Knavesmire is still open to the public, and pedestrians and/or dogs could be anywhere on site.
- No vehicles will be permitted in the lightweight camping area. Anyone wishing to camp in this area with a vehicle must park it in the main car park near the main entrance.
- NEW: Motor vehicle access closures for safe ride departures! Building on the changes we made last year, we are further improving pedestrian safety this year:
To keep riders and pedestrians safe, the main access (where you cross the horse racing track) and the road along the enclosure fence (where rides depart) will be closed to motor vehicles during these time periods:
- Saturday: 8:45 am to 10:35 am
- Sunday: 8:45 am to 9:45 am
- We can make exceptions only for emergencies, so please plan ahead if at all possible so as not to need to enter or leave the site in this period except on foot or by bike. Please ask at the Info Hub if you nonetheless absolutely must take a motor vehicle in or out during these times.
- IN ADDITION, for 2025, the roadway along the Enclosure fence (where the rides depart) will be closed to motor vehicles during most of Saturday and Sunday, with a diversion through the campsite.
Donations of items welcome!
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Donations of cycling items (except complete bikes and clothing) are welcome – please bring your spare kit and help raise funds for the Rally and Festival. We’ll have a table set aside in the cycle jumble for sellable donated cycling gear, which will be sold to raise funds for the event. All parts and accessories (except clothing and complete bikes) are very welcome. Please bring your donations to the Info Hub as early as possible during the event. All funds raised will go to supporting the Rally & Festival.
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The Bygone Bykes (Yorkshire) stand will also have an area where you can donate less sellable items for other visitors to pick up for free.
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And finally a reminder of phone numbers to reach us if needed:
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Enquiries mobile: 07467 321 443
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Please use this number for non-urgent enquiries.
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Emergencies: 07596 831 541
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Please call this number immediately if there is an accident, a threat to safety, or to report a lost child.
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We look forward to seeing you soon on the Knavesmire, and for a safe and enjoyable weekend!
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The York Cycle Rally & Festival Campsite Team
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Our all-volunteer check-in team look forward to seeing you soon!
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Sent for the York Rally by
Peter Eland, Publicity Officer, York Rally
E-mail publicity@yorkrally.org
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