Colorado

July 16th, 2025

2025 marks the eighth year of PeopleForBikes’ City Ratings, our annual program ranking the quality of bike networks in thousands of cities across the U.S. and around the world. With nearly a decade of data, we’ve used historical results and improvements made to City Ratings scores over time to ident ...

July 9th, 2025

This year, PeopleForBikes tracked more than 800 bills nationwide. Through targeted legal, lobbying, and grassroots efforts, we protected the bike industry from harmful proposals that would have disrupted the market and added costly new burdens to bike businesses. ...

July 7th, 2025

For the first time, PeopleForBikes’ 2025 City Ratings include thousands of bike projects across the U.S., making the critical connection between the creation of safe and connected places to ride and becoming a great city for biking. ...

June 20th, 2025

There’s nothing quite like the freedom you feel when pedaling a bike. If I could tell my younger self anything, it might go something like this: ...

June 18th, 2025

Our annual City Ratings is a data-driven approach to evaluate, compare, and celebrate the best cities for biking in the U.S. and around the world. Based on data from PeopleForBikes’ Bicycle Network Analysis (BNA), each city receives a City Ratings score on a scale of 0-100.  ...

July 29th, 2024

July 16th, 2024

PeopleForBikes’ annual City Ratings program ranks thousands of cities across the world on how well their bike networks connect people to the places they want to go. The scores provide an objective baseline to help cities progress, but the voices of individual riders are critical in identifying gaps ...

June 21st, 2024

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January 12th, 2024

From bustling cities to small towns, communities from coast to coast amplified their commitment to better biking with an unprecedented surge in safer, more comfortable places to ride in 2023. And, with thousands of additional projects planned across the country and more federal funding for bikes ava ...

December 13th, 2023

On December 12, the PeopleForBikes Coalition Board of Directors approved our 2023 Industry Community Grants recipients, totaling $100,000 in funding across 13 grants. The grants will help fund projects that support our focus on building infrastructure that makes communities great places to ride a bi ...

October 13th, 2023

This November, a substantial $1.86 billion is on the table for bicycle projects aimed at enhancing paved and off-road infrastructure across 17 different ballot measures throughout the United States. Through our VoteForBikes campaign, we track and advocate for local, pro-bike ballot measures across t ...

July 13th, 2023

Across the country, more and more states are turning to electric bicycles — and specifically, e-bike incentive programs — to promote sustainable transportation and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transportation insecurity. Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Vermont, and Washington are the newest states ...

June 21st, 2023

When it comes to great places for bicycling along Colorado’s Front Range, Boulder and Fort Collins are often touted for their long histories as bike-forward cities. However, thanks to recent population shifts bringing more people to surrounding suburbs, a new wave of Colorado cycling cities is emerg ...

January 21st, 2023

Mountain biking trails exist all across the U.S., and the number of bicycle-optimized trails continues to increase as more new trails open and old ones are refurbished or updated. To celebrate another great year of mountain biking, PeopleForBikes (with the help of our supporters on social media) com ...

October 12th, 2022

Bicycling is one of the most popular outdoor activities for youth. According to the 2022 Outdoor Participation Trends Report, 29% of kids aged 6-17 rode a bike last year. That said, participation rates for girls aged 13-17 are the lowest in the youth category. Racial discrepancies and income dispari ...

September 21st, 2022

More and more states are realizing the benefits of electric bicycles as they seek to lower vehicle miles traveled and make progress towards climate goals. This was clearly illustrated within state legislative sessions during 2022, with an unprecedented number of new laws passed that improve the righ ...

June 29th, 2022

It may be known as one of the birthplaces of mountain biking in the U.S., but Crested Butte’s community of single-speed townie bikes is helping cut off the need for cars.  ...

June 3rd, 2022

For the sixth consecutive year, PeopleForBikes is proud to release our annual City Ratings, a data-driven program to evaluate, identify and compare the best cities and towns for bicycling. For 2022, more than 1,000 cities were rated in the U.S. and Canada, the largest number in program history. ...

June 3rd, 2022

Have you ever driven through somewhere on a road trip that you thought was unforgettably cool, only to get home and realize you don’t remember the name of the place, or even where it was? It’s difficult to remember such awesome places when you’re moving through them so fast, which is what makes sigh ...

May 30th, 2022

Whether it’s to reduce their carbon footprint, for exercise, to save money or just for fun, more and more college students across the United States are choosing to get around by bike. As a result, many colleges and universities are putting in extensive time and resources to make biking more accessib ...