Top Secret Training Camp 2026 – Recap!

Top Secret Training Camp (TSTC) is a wrap, and you can bet that every attendee slept well on Sunday evening after such an action-packed weekend in the desert. TSTC is many things to many people, but to us at Devo it’s most importantly a sweet bonding ritual for our upper level riders and coaches. This year we gathered 60 riders from all our 6th to 12th grade teams and more than a dozen coaches at our secret location in New Mexico, and had a truly epic time.

For some kids this is a favorite weekend of the year. For others, it’s their first time spending a night outside, first time setting up a tent without an adult’s help, their first time hitting a gap jump, or their first time scrambling up a cliff at sunrise for a group yoga session.

The riding we do out there is important, yes, but it’s so much more than just classic Devo rides. We pack an incredible amount of diversity into less than 48 hours — a cornucopia of ride styles and events for kids to sample, progress on, or just observe. We ride trails, but we also build and experiment with jumps, sandy loose descents, a wild short-track race, open-ended bike-play on slickrock at sunset. One group even rode 20 miles to the nearest Dairy Queen and then back again.

The art projects and campfire chats are of equal importance: a chance to sit next to a stranger who becomes a friend, learn to socialize with people of different ages and interests, a chance to lend a hand and feel appreciation, new connections made for life.

Speaking of appreciation, none of this would be possible, of course, without our Sponsors and rider families. We dined like kings and queens all weekend thanks to Bread, Nature’s Oasis, Sage Fresh Eats, Zia Taqueria, Durangourmet, Skagua by Ska, Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, and College Cafe, plus hearty and generous supplements from our upper level families.

We only just got home and finished wiping the desert sand out from behind our ears and between our toes, and we’re already counting down to next year. TSTC is just that special. A time-honored tradition, and one we wouldn’t trade for the world.