Help Us Replace 500 Car Trips in September

How to Join: Download the free Bike Streets app at bikestreets.com/join to log every everyday ride, errand, or commute this month.

Why Log Your Rides: Every trip you record demonstrates the need for safe, connected biking infrastructure in our community.

Extra Credit: If you want to help make the Bike Streets app better in Colorado Springs add your route, comment on existing routes and add where there are issues on our network. Learn More Here

Volunteer as a Bike Ambassador
Motorless Morning

Sunday, October 4

Last Motorless Morning of 2026
Garden of the Gods is shutting down all vehicle traffic on October 4 for the last Motorless Morning of the year

We Need You: BCS needs volunteers to help with event operations, table advocacy, and route guidance.

Get Involved: Read more here and sign up to volunteer for one of two sessions at the button below

Volunteer Here - Motorless Morning (October 2026)

Looking Back and Looking Ahead

Are you a Ride Leader? Invite BCS to Your Next Ride!

Are you organizing a local group ride, club outing, or neighborhood cruise?

Collaborate: Invite Bike Colorado Springs to join your ride! We’d love to connect with your group, share updates, and help get more people riding safely around town. Reach out to us [email protected].

Highlights from the August Smart Cycling Skills Class

Our Partners at PacManitou hosted their latest Smart Cycling on bike class, focusing on essential bike handling skills, road positioning, and lane positioning to keep riders safe.

Learn More: Check out our resource guide on BikeColoradoSprings.org for safe riding tips and local classes.

Infrastructure & Trail Updates

Rock Island Trail Extension

The old Rock Island rail corridor that helped build Colorado Springs and provides trail connectivity to much of our city will now extend east of Powers Blvd. Read more at our website on project scope and timeline.

Trail Crossings

The city is hard at work improving eight trail crossings this year, please stay tuned to Bike COS and COS Parks socials as be patient as these key intersections are improved to make connections throughout the city safer

Most Recently Completely:
Rock Island Trail at T-Gap Road
Briargate Trail at Meadow Ridge Dr
Woodman Trail at Lexington Dr

Our First Newsletter in a while

As you may have noticed, this is our first newsletter in a long time, and we're planning to provide weekly newsletter updated monthly. But, as we're new to this please know we’re ironing out the kinks, please be sure sign up for our newsletter here and share this with anybody who may be interested. Thank you for being such an important part of our community. Together, we make Colorado Springs a safe and welcoming place for everybody who rides a bike.

Newsletter Signup

If you would like to help with this newsletter or volunteer with Bike Colorado Springs in any other way please check out our Open Roles or reach out to us on our Contact Form