Sunday, August 23, 2026
The Lot on Harford Road - 4500 Harford Road, Baltimore MD 21214
9:15am Late Registration | 10:00am Race Start

The Baltimore Dog Cat Rat Race is back! This biking scavenger hunt benefits two Baltimore-based nonprofits: the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter and Bikemore. 

Our event is in the style of an “Alley Cat” or “Rat Race,” which are part bike race, part scavenger hunt—rewarding a mix of strategy and speed. Therefore, we thought it only right to name ours the Dog Cat Rat 🐕🐈🐀 to represent all the types of critters BARCS takes in every year as an open-admission shelter!

The Baltimore Dog Cat Rat is a family-friendly version, where teams of 3–4 ride around Herring Run Park and the connecting neighborhoods of Hamilton-Lauraville, stopping at designated checkpoints to play games and earn points for their team.

Celebrate at an after party at the Lot on Harford Road with vendors, music, cash bar/food and shared fun with your fellow rat race riders. Teams will be scored and win prizes for overall 1st and 2nd place, top family prize (for groups with at least one rider under 16 years old) and DFL (dead freakin' last—a time-honored tradition of Alley Cat races).