South Carolina 8–17 May 2026
Few motorcycle rallies can claim 87 years of history, but Myrtle Beach Bike Week has been drawing riders to the South Carolina coast every May since 1940. Now one of the largest motorcycle events in the Southeast, the Spring Rally stretches across ten days and the full sixty-mile length of the Grand Strand — one of the most naturally beautiful stretches of Atlantic coastline in America.
The Grand Strand runs from Little River on the North Carolina border all the way south to Georgetown, taking in North Myrtle Beach, Atlantic Beach, Surfside Beach, Garden City, Murrells Inlet, Litchfield Beach, and Pawleys Island along the way. Each area has its own character, its own restaurants, its own riding appeal — and during Bike Week, all of it comes alive. This isn’t a rally contained to one venue or one town. It spreads across the entire Strand, meaning riders can spend ten days here and still find new roads, new stops, and new people every day.
The riding is the foundation of everything. Coastal routes along Business-17 and the bypass offer easy, scenic miles with the Atlantic never far from view, while the backroads inland open up a different side of the Carolinas entirely. May weather on the Grand Strand is close to ideal — warm, settled, and well suited to long days in the saddle.
Beyond the riding, Myrtle Beach Bike Week draws riders for the same reasons it always has — good food in great seafood restaurants, local bars and live music, and the kind of easy community that builds when over 300,000 riders share the same stretch of coast for a week and a half. All motorcycles are welcome, all riding levels are catered for, and whether you’re staying one day or all ten, the Grand Strand has more than enough to fill the time.
