Road Rides

Salida Colorado Road Rides

A sunny road ride on the Salida backroads below Mount Shavano, Colorado. Photo by www.NathanWard.com

If mountain biking isn’t your thing, and you prefer road riding, we offer a number of guided road rides around the Salida area.  Our guided road bike rides follow paved highway and backroad loops, mostly on rolling routes but we can also take you up the mountain passes as well.

Some of the local’s favorite rides are Poncha Pass, Cottonwood Pass, Salida to Buena Vista or even a shuttle to Leadville and a (mostly) downhill ride back to Salida.  Just tell us what type of road ride interests you the most and we’ll take you on a great ride.

Another interesting option is to ride mountain or cyclocross bikes on the local dirt roads.  The benefit is that we have more options for rides and the vehicle traffic is sparse.  We can guide you on everything from a short dirt road ride to an all day epic that crosses the backroads of Colorado’s Upper Arkansas River Valley.

  • Valley Loop – A tour of the valley around Salida
  • Poncha Pass – A short but challenging
  • Aspen Ridge – A Challenging CycloCross Bike Ride
  • Salida to Cotopaxi Back Road – Our Version of the Gran Fondo…on Cyclocross Bikes