RSSMaps of the Denver Area…
City Bike Map
DBTC Map
This collection of maps has been gathered from various clubs, groups and gov’t organizations. Use these to help plan the safest, fastest, most comfortable route to your destination.
Get Maps In Print…
BikeDenver stocks a supply of two of the area’s most popular bike maps. We distribute them at all our bike parking events and we now offer them through the mail. The City Bike Map will now be available at events for FREE! The DBTC map is priced at just $6 each (shipping included). For $7 we’ll include the City Bike Map (that’s to cover the extra postage). And, we can mail the City bike map by itself for $2.50. Send a check, made out to BikeDenver, for the appropriate sum to:
BikeDenver
Map sales
1536 Wynkoop Street
Box 801
Denver, CO 80202
You can also pay for these maps via PayPal. Just choose from the three links below.
The City Bike Map
If you can only have one map of the city of Denver, this is the one to get. It’s easy to read, covers an area from Commerce City to Cherry Creek State Park, and it’s printed on this durable water-proof stuff (I’ve been beating up the same copy for over a year, and it looks like new).
It also has an enlarged print of downtown, a list of Local Bike Laws and even directions for the safest way to lock up your bike. Check out the PDFs. You can obtain a print copy from the city, at Bike Denver events or at Denver area book stores.
Note: Public Works will distribute the remaining 2006 Denver Bike Maps in stock and expects to reprint an updated map by the end of this year. The new map will be distributed for free and will include recent improvements to the city’s bike system including additional bike lanes, routes and sharrows. In the future, Public Works hopes to reprint the map on a set cycle so as to provide users with the most current information available.
Denver Bicycle Touring Club
Our local touring club produces a very nice map that extends much further than the city bike map. It’s two-color, printed on nice paper and very handy to have in your collection.
GeoBiking
Let me break this one down for you. There’s a free program called Google Earth. You can download it, then download routes and such that other people have mapped out for it. These folks at www.geobiking.org have laid out pretty much all the trails and routes in the Denver area, so you can get in there and see how to get where you’re going. Of course, you can’t take Google Earth with you too easily, so buy some maps too!
Visit earth.google.com to download Google Earth…
Visit GeoBiking.org to download the trails…
Urban Trails
This map shows you just Denver’s bike trails, not paths or routes. Ride in comfort and safety well away from cars on this network of trails. Extends out to the High Line Canal, Chatfield State Park, Ralston Creek and more.
South Suburban Parks and Rec
Produced by South Suburban Parks and Recreations, this giant map shows trails and roads through Sheridan, Cherry Hills Village, Columbine Valley, Littleton, Centennial and way out to Lone Tree.
U.S. 36 Regional Bike Map
This map shows you the route along U.S. 36, running from Westminster/Arvada out to Boulder. Shows you the big roads and the basics of the route.
Click on the images to the left to see the PDFs. A print version of the map is available from RTD and several municipalities.
Visit the U.S. 36 T.M.O. to find out more…
Rocky Mountain Cycling Club
If you’re looking for an awesome recreational ride, this is the site to go to. Offering a large database of routes, with statistics on climbing, grades, elevation and terrain, the RMCC knows its way around the hills.
Check out their site for all the rides…
March 27th, 2008 at 7:33 am
What about on street bike routes? For people like me trying to bike commute from Denver to Lakewood and back, the resources are not so great. I would like to help focus some attention on this need. We have plenty of recreational paths, but linking a safe route East West and West East in Denver is difficult. Also, I joined bike denver last year and never receive any communications? Is there not a monthly newsletter? What gives.
Thanks.
April 16th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Hi Doug,
As membership coordinator, I should apologize for the lack of communication with our members. We do put together a newsletter, on what is officially a quarterly basis, and we’re working on keeping it to a regular schedule.
We also plan to send out more frequent email notices of our goings-on, and hope to do the same with that.
However, with no full-time or even part-time staff, and all of us working and/or in school full time, it’s not easy to hold the organization to that level!
Please bear with us, and know that we’re working hard on many issues, including the DNC bike parking/transportation situation, Union Station redevelopment, Complete streets, and of course the many events around town that keep our bike parking energies occupied. Keep an eye open for some news real soon.
thanks for your patience,
Lise Neer
BikeDenver
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:25 pm
I just joined this site and I’m not really up to speed on your bike parking events. I am an employee who works at DIA. There are no places to park bicycles at the main terminal, the employee parking lot, or anywhere near DIA. Also, routes to get out there for commuters are sketchy. I haven’t been able to find a good route from Parker Rd/Illif on the DBTC map. Help!
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