{"id":1309881,"date":"2019-05-02T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/cross-country-ride-to-stop-in-glenwood\/"},"modified":"2019-05-02T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T02:44:00","slug":"kyle-pettys-cross-country-ride-to-stop-in-glenwood-this-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/kyle-pettys-cross-country-ride-to-stop-in-glenwood-this-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Petty\u2019s cross-country ride to stop in Glenwood this Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.6862068965517\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-977356-992\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/AEKPCharityRide-gpi-050319-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/AEKPCharityRide-gpi-050319-3.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kyle Petty Charity Ride | Kyle Petty will be joined by former NASCAR racer Harry Gant, left. and former NFL great and Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker on this year's Ride Across America.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/AEKPCharityRide-gpi-050319-3.jpg\" alt=\"Kyle Petty will be joined by former NASCAR racer Harry Gant, left. and former NFL great and Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker on this year's Ride Across America.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>Kyle Petty will be joined by former NASCAR racer Harry Gant, left. and former NFL great and Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker on this year&#8217;s Ride Across America.<\/strong><br \/>Kyle Petty Charity Ride<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/AEKPCharityRide-gpi-050319-3-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/AEKPCharityRide-gpi-050319-3-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kyle Petty Charity Ride | The Kyle Petty Charity Ride Across America will celebrate the ride's 25th anniversary with an overnight stop in Glenwood Springs as participants travel from Seattle to Key Largo.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"7\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/AEKPCharityRide-gpi-050319-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Kyle Petty Charity Ride Across America will celebrate the ride's 25th anniversary with an overnight stop in Glenwood Springs as participants travel from Seattle to Key Largo.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>The Kyle Petty Charity Ride Across America will celebrate the ride&#8217;s 25th anniversary with an overnight stop in Glenwood Springs as participants travel from Seattle to Key Largo.<\/strong><br \/>Kyle Petty Charity Ride<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/AEKPCharityRide-gpi-050319-3-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/AEKPCharityRide-gpi-050319-3-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kyle Petty Charity Ride | Former NASCAR driver and NBC Sports racing analyst Kyle Petty will lead his Charity Ride Across America through Glenwood Springs Sunday.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"6.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/AEKPCharityRide-gpi-050319-3-2.jpg\" alt=\"Former NASCAR driver and NBC Sports racing analyst Kyle Petty will lead his Charity Ride Across America through Glenwood Springs Sunday.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Former NASCAR driver and NBC Sports racing analyst Kyle Petty will lead his Charity Ride Across America through Glenwood Springs Sunday.<\/strong><br \/>Kyle Petty Charity Ride<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/local\/cross-country-ride-to-stop-in-glenwood\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/local\/cross-country-ride-to-stop-in-glenwood\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">For former NASCAR driver and NBC Sports racing analyst Kyle Petty it all began as a fun way to go from one racetrack to the next with friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe started it because we wanted to ride motorcycles from California to North Carolina, and we decided we would do it for charity,\u201d Petty said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Twenty-five years later the Kyle Petty Charity Ride has logged 12 million miles and raised $18.5 million for Victory Junction and other children\u2019s charities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The first year they stopped at children\u2019s hospitals, helping a few families along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt has been phenomenal. The riders are the ones that makes this thing happen; they come out and give a week of their time, and donate money,\u201d Petty added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The tradition continued until 2000 when tragedy struck the Petty family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cMy oldest son Adam was killed in a racing accident. We decided as a family we would build a camp in North Carolina,\u201d Petty said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Petty family founded Victory Junction in Randleman, North Carolina, in honor of Adam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe built the camp for children with chronic and life-threatening illnesses, that was totally free of charge,\u201d Petty added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cAll the money we have raised since 2001 has gone straight to Victory Junction and to send kids to camp. That\u2019s become our mission now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The camp, which opened its gates in 2004, is celebrating its 15th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIts been amazing, I tell people I lost one son, but I\u2019ve gained 30,000 other kids that are coming to camp as part of my family,\u201d Petty said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWhen I see Adam\u2019s smile on their face, I know Adam is still here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Subhead\">NEXT STOP GLENWOOD<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The 25th anniversary ride kicks off today as the ride leaves Seattle as 250 participants and 150 motorcycles begin the nine-day, 3,700-mile trek to Key Largo, Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThis is corner to corner, we\u2019ve gone from San Diego to Daytona, Maine to Miami, we have gone a multitude of routes from west to east and north to south, but we have never done a corner to corner like this,\u201d Petty said<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWhat we tried to do is incorporate some places we have been before, and some that were our riders\u2019 favorite places \u2014 Childress, Texas; Shreveport, Louisiana, and Glenwood Springs \u2014 we have been trying to get back to Glenwood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Charity Ride first came to the Roaring Fork Valley in the mid-\u201990s on one of the first rides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Petty said he was sponsored by Coors at the time and wanted to visit the brewery in Golden, making a stop in Glenwood along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cEverybody remembers it, from the hot springs to the snow, we are excited to come back to Glenwood Springs,\u201d Petty said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe showed up there and had no idea that there was a hot springs, no idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Petty said after a night fellowshipping and having a good time, the riders awoke to a spring snowstorm on the Western Slope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe had never ridden in snow in our life; we were scared to death. It went from one of the happiest nights we have ever had on a ride, to being scared out of our boots the next day,\u201d Petty reminisced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The ride is expected to rumble into Glenwood at 3:30 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe are staying at the Hotel Colorado. We want the public to come out and be there when we get there,\u201d Petty added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWill hang out as long as they want to hang out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\"><a href=\"mailto:kmills@postindependent.com\">kmills@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/local\/cross-country-ride-to-stop-in-glenwood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Petty will be joined by former NASCAR racer Harry Gant, left. and former NFL great and Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker on this year&#8217;s Ride Across America.Kyle Petty Charity Ride The Kyle Petty Charity Ride Across America will celebrate the ride&#8217;s 25th anniversary with an overnight stop in Glenwood Springs as participants travel from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1309881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 13:43:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}