Bicycle Friendly Community

Carbondale, CO | Bronze Level

Community Highlights: Carbondale has many multiuse paths connecting key areas within the community and is also connected to a 45 mile path that runs from Aspen down valley to Glenwood Springs. The town hosts a number of bike related events ranging from an all-day Criterium bike race, which closes off Main Street and surrounding neighborhoods to a “Dandelion Days” parade. National Bike to Work Week consists of events including kid’s safety clinics, a Bike-In movie, a Digital scavenger hunt via bicycle, bike polo instruction and tournament, costumed pedal parade, raffle giveaways of Townie bikes, and commuter breakfasts. Monthly Full-Moon cruiser rides happen year round. The city offers bike maintenance classes through local bike shops and a community college. A local independent school offers road and mountain biking classes in the fall and spring, and fields a competitive mountain biking team that participates in the new Colorado high school mountain biking league.