Bike Fort Collins,
the good way.

Yes. The League of American Bicyclists rates Fort Collins Platinum, its top level, and has since 2013. Paved trails like the Poudre, Spring Creek, Mason and Power trails connect much of town, and many neighborhood streets have bike lanes or are quiet enough to ride. The hard parts are the big roads, like College, Mulberry and Harmony, and crossing them. Trazo plans around them and warns you where a route crosses a busy road without a light.

Try a loop that ends where it began, almost entirely off busy roads, from an easy morning to a long trail day. All ten are on Trazos We Love.

City Park and the Spring Creek Trail10.4 mi · 100% off busy roadsSpring Canyon and the Spring Creek Trail10.6 mi · 100% off busy roadsFoothills Mall, the Mason Trail and the Poudre10.3 mi · 100% off busy roadsNew Belgium, the Mason Trail and the Power Trail20.8 mi · 100% off busy roads

These short loops stay on trails and paths the whole way. In the Trazo map, choose "With kids" and any route you plan sticks to trails and avoids busy roads almost entirely.

CSU, the Mason Trail and Spring Creek4.6 mi · 100% off busy roadsFossil Creek Trail loop5.7 mi · 100% off busy roadsNew Belgium and the Poudre River Trail6.0 mi · 99% off busy roadsRolland Moore and the Spring Creek Trail7.3 mi · 100% off busy roads

The Poudre River Trail follows the river through town, the Spring Creek Trail crosses the middle east to west, the Mason Trail runs north to south along the railroad, and the Power and Fossil Creek trails cover the southeast. All paved, mostly off the street. To ride between them or from your door, see calm routes between places people go.

These rides between places people go are almost entirely off busy roads, and each opens in Trazo with one tap. For any other start or finish, plan it in the map.

CSU (the Oval) to Old Town Square1.1 mi · 99% off busy roadsOld Town Square to Lee Martinez Park1.2 mi · 99% off busy roadsOld Town Square to New Belgium Brewing1.1 mi · 99% off busy roadsCSU (the Oval) to Rolland Moore Park2.7 mi · 100% off busy roads

Yes. From Old Town Square to downtown Loveland is about 18.5 miles, almost all on trails: the Mason Trail, the Fossil Creek Trail, the Colorado Front Range Trail and the Boyd Lake Trail. Trazo marks the few spots along the way where you cross a busy road without a light. For rides in Loveland itself, like the Boyd Lake loop, see biking in Loveland.

The City publishes an official bike map, online and as a printable PDF. Trazo's map shows the same trails and bike lanes, rates how stressful each street is, and plans a calm route from where you are to where you're going. It's free, works in your phone's browser and needs no account.

Trazo is free, with no account and no ads. It runs in your phone's browser, and you can add it to your home screen like an app. It covers Fort Collins and Loveland, plus other areas in Colorado, Utah, Arizona and the Carolinas.