Bicycle Friendly Communities

Longmont, CO | Silver Level

Recent bicycling investment: Longmont recently invested in 3 arterial bike/pedestrian underpasses (over $6 million investment) and a final trail connection to the LOBO Trail system, a soft surface trail connecting Longmont and Boulder, featuring concrete trailhead parking and restrooms. Other investments were the design of a new 14-mile citywide loop and a 2-mile downtown loop, installation of an Art in Public Places custom bicycle rack at the City's outdoor pool facility, the Longmont Museum's bicycle exhibit 100 Years of Gears, which attracted 3,000 people, publication of the Longmont Bicycle Map, (winner of ESRI's Bike Map Award for "Best Cartographic Design" single map design), and, signed bike route design.

Bicycling highlights: Longmont has a growing culture of cycling as an integrated identity of the community. From growing infrastructure, to events, to education opportunities - Longmont has transformed the perception of it as a noncycling community, far removed and behind Boulder and Fort Collins, to an active community in which cycling plays an integral part. Many residents now routinely refer to the city as "Bikemont."
Longmont now has more than 200 active and growing cycling events across the community, three times more than the number of events in 2008.
Longmont has invested millions of dollars in on-road and off-road miles of bike lanes, paths, and greenways to increase cycling and improve cycling for recreation and transportation. Along with its famous neighbor Boulder, Longmont has continually grown the percentage of daily commuter and recreational cyclists ahead of the national average and alongside other gold-awarded communities.

Percentage of arterial streets with dedicated bicycle facilities: 26%

Bicycling education in 94% elementary schools and 34% middle schools

Signature cycling events: Venus de Miles; G'Knight Ride; Longmont Bike Night; weekly cruiser rides; Twin Peaks; Longmont Criterium; Vic's Prospect Criterium; MS 150 Tour de Cure; Longmont Triathlon; Longmont Kids Triathlon; Bikeswap Longmont; Tour de Farm

Some coming bicycling improvements: Improvements at Union Reservoir will include a looped trail around the reservoir for bikes and pedestrians. Development of the Spring Gulch #2 Greenway includes a bike/pedestrian underpass at County Line Road and State Hwy. 119 with valuable connections to the St. Vrain Greenway, Union Reservoir and east Longmont. Longmont will also pilot a City bike share program, coordinate the start-up of a nonprofit bike co-op, expand the Safe Routes to School Program, conduct a bicycle economic impact study, expand trail access to bicycles, increase the number of bike racks by 10%, expand the number of bike lanes by 5%, add 2 new bike trail underpasses to two major arterial streets, complete missing links to primary and secondary greenway connections, and complete bike route signage.