Bicycle Friendly Community

Missoula, MT | Gold Level

Recent bicycling investment: The City of Missoula constructed 1 mile of off-street trail through the City ($1 million) and 0.3 mile of trail along the Clark Fork River downtown. Also, the City added bike lanes to 0.8 mile of Bancroft St. and 0.5 mile of Miller Cr Rd, and finished a second year of restriping bike lanes with epoxy paint. Missoula redesigned and rebuilt a key city/university campus interface to improve bike/ped facilities.

Bicycling highlights: Missoula is a bike friendly community with a terrific and well-connected system of off- and on-street facilities, and long-standing education, encouragement, and enforcement activities.
City officials have long been commited to constantly improving bikeability, which is supported by all levels of the community.

Percentage of arterial streets with dedicated bicycle facilities: 90%

Bicycling education in 78% elementary schools and 33% middle schools

Signature cycling events: Bike Walk Bus Week, including Festival of Cycles and the University's Walk n Roll Week; Missoulians on Bicycles; Ride of Silence; Annual Tweed Ride; Numerous charity rides such as the RATPOD, Tour of the Swan River Valley, and Cycle for the Symphony; Western Montana Hill Climb; Sunday Streets Missoula

Some coming bicycling improvements: Missoula is planning to construct 2 miles of off-street trail at the edge of the city, add bike lanes on 0.5 mile of Broadway St, continue to replace water-based paint on bike lanes with epoxy, build a bike station at the transit center and design rebuilding 1 mile of arterial with new bike lanes for construction over 3 years.