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| Cycling on the open road, just outside Buffalo Springs Campground (Fairplay, CO) |
Idaho Springs, CO to Cortez, CO
We cycled over 1,000 kilometres using Adventure Cycling Association maps
With a route network of 41,420 miles that are selected, designed, and mapped by bicyclists, for bicyclists, the Adventure Cycling Association's website is a great resource.
Visit ACA'S website for inspiration to plan your own independent trip and experience travelling the USA by bicycle, or join one of the 70 guided tours available.
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| 2 miles above sea level - Rocky Mountain National Park |
'Great Parks South' route
We were inspired to cycle the 'Great Parks South' route - 695 miles from Steamboat Springs, CO to Durango, CO.
With only two weeks, we were not able to cycle the entire route and started our tour in Idaho Springs, CO and finished in Cortez, CO (just outside Durango).
The route was highly enjoyable, guiding us through a continuous setting of dramatic mountain scenery, national forests and parks in addition to many climbs over a number of challenging mountain passes at high altitudes.
> Learn more about ACA's route network
Great Parks South route - daily distances covered
Starting - end point / distance cycled / altitude (high - low)
- Idaho Springs - Black Hawk / 40 km / 1100m - 550m
- Black Hawk - Rocky Mountain NP / 80 km / 1000m -500m
- Rocky Mountain NP - Grand Lake / 80 km / 1200m
- Lake Granby - Empire: 84 kms / 1100m - 900m
- Empire - Silverthorne: 62 kms / 1100m - 900m
- Silverthorne - Buffalo Springs: 88 kms / 700m
- Buffalo Springs - Salida: 72 kms / 850m - 650m
- Salida - Gunnison: 98 kms / 1100m - 900m
- Gunnison - Montrose: 107 kms / 650m - 350m
- Montrose - Telluride: 104 kms / 1200m - 1100m
- Telluride - Dolores: 104 kms / 950m - 850m
- Dolores - Mesa Verde NP: 72 kms / 450m - 300m
- Mesa Verde NP - Cortez: 32 kms
* Click here for a Google map of our trip!
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