2025 X Games Heading to Salt Lake City

SALT LAKE CITY — The 30th anniversary summer of the X Games has expanded to a third event as the action sports festival will be in Salt Lake City at the Utah State Fairpark and Event Center.

X Games Salt Lake City will be held from June 27–29, the second of three X Games events this summer along with Osaka, Japan (June 20–22) and Sacramento (August 22–24).

“This is an iconic sports town,” said Jeremy Bloom, a two-time Olympic freestyle skier and former football player at the University of Colorado, who was named the chief executive officer in December. He said there were 35 worldwide bids for the event before settling on Salt Lake because of the government support on various levels as well as a partnership with Visit Salt Lake.

“They’ve done almost everything here starting with the Olympics in 2002 and the fans here are second to none, they show up and they love live sports and they love action sports,” said Bloom, who competed in the 2002 Winter Games.

X Games Salt Lake City will host more than 100 action sports athletes with three days of Moto X, BMX, and skateboarding competitions. Athletes will compete for over $1 million in prize money. Ryan Sheckler, a skateboard street legend with multiple X Games medals including a gold in 2003 at age 13, announced Thursday that he plans to compete this summer for the first time in five years.

“It’s really cool because it’s like everyone’s really outdoors people,” said skateboarder Keegan Palmer, a two-time X Games gold medalist who also has gold medals from the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Summer Games. “I have a bunch of friends that live here for snowboarding up in the mountains and then to skate this park again will be fun,” having done so five years ago at a different event in town.

Bloom during Thursday’s event teased the 30th anniversary will bring some big names back as well without giving away too much. Palmer’s hope for skateboarding: “it would be cool to go against Shaun (White) and Tony (Hawk).”

Hannah Roberts, a BMX freestyle gold medalist from 2024 X Games and silver medalist at the 2020 Olympic Summer Games, will have an added advantage; she said Thursday that she will soon be moving to Salt Lake as her home base.

“I’m actually really stoked on it,” Roberts said. “I get to go home, I get to sleep in my bed every night, get to cuddle with my dogs and then I get to drive a couple minutes and then I’m where I’m going to compete, so that’s super cool to me.”

Bloom said being at a new location for the X Games means making sure the venue map is set up for the fan experience in going from one event to another efficiently. The ticketing process has not been announced yet but that will also be a focal point, he added, predicting the three-day event will get over 100,000 fans.

Bloom is leading the event organizer as it transitions into a new team format beginning in 2026, in addition to individual awards and the team format including an athlete draft.

“We hope this is just a jumping off point for Salt Lake and a partnership here for many years to come, especially as we launch our league and we create new teams and we introduce new sports,” Bloom said. “We’re looking at sport expansion right now for X Games and then bring back some sports that used to be part of X Games with some sports that have never been part of X Games. We’re going to experiment quite a bit with that in 2026 and 2027 and we hope to be here at the State Fairpark doing that as well.”