Biking to downtown from Arvada

One of the fun things about living in north Arvada in the Landing at Standley Lake neighborhood is we are uphill from downtown Denver. Arvada has lots of different biking trails and offers opportunities to head West to the Arvada Reservoir, past the Westwoods neighborhood, Golden via Wheatridge Clear Creek Greenbelt and downtown via the Clear Creek and S Platte bike path.

Starting out from the Standley Lake library I went south on Kipling, past 72nd and the railroad tracks and then headed south on Garrison St. Just before 58th Ave/Ralston Rd at the Garrison St Center you can hook up with the Ralston Creek Trail. Heading east on this path will take you to the Clear Creek Path intersection at the new bridge that links Arvada to the other bike trails. The trails are not well marked, but as long as you're heading predominantly east you'll stay on the right path.

When you hit Tennyson St you can choose to get to downtown via the bike path or branch off and take surface streets to downtown. I've done both. Staying on the path is very pleasant, major trail junctions are marked and are patrolled by the local police departments. It took me roughly two hours from my house in The Landing at Standley Lake to get downtown via the bike path as the route takes you east to Commerce City and then south, ending near the REI. The surface streets, if you take Tennyson south into Denver, across 32nd and into downtown via Speer will take you roughly an hour. There are a lot of cars and it's heavily trafficked making the ride more stressful.

My next adventure when the weather warms up is to mountain bike on Green Mountain near Golden and Lakewood. Can't wait! Meanwhile if you'd like to see any houses near Standley Lake or find out more about the on road and off road -mountain bike- bike paths in Arvada let me know. I can be reached via my website