Street Bike Resources

Navigating rides on paved roads around the mountains is easy. All that is really needed is a Colorado state highway map and a relatively short planning session.

We'll have more maps and more advice at Frisco. But if you want to start some of your own planning in advance, listed here are some of our favorite travel aids, most of which you can find at Amazon.com, at your local book store, or at one of the book stores in Frisco or Breckenridge.

"The Passes of Colorado, An Encyclopedia of Watershed Divides", by Ed Helmuth & Gloria Helmuth, Pruett Publishing Company, 1994, ISBN 0-87108-841-X. Information about 469 passes around the state. Our number one resource for the Pass Bagger 50.

"Colorado Road & Recreation Atlas", "Landscape Maps (93 pages), Recreation Guides (30 pages), Detailed Roads, GPS Grids". Benchmark Maps, 2007, ISBN 0-929591-94-1. Like the Gazetteer, but highlights recreational roads more than hiking trails.

Garmin's MapSource United States TOPO. Features digital topographic maps for the U.S., including Alaska and Hawaii, that are comparable to the U.S. Geological Survey's 1:100,000 scale paper maps. Microsoft Streets & Trips is a very handy tool to map road rides.

"Backroads of Colorado", by Boyd and Barbara Norton, Rand McNally and Co., 1983, ISBN 0-528-88220-1. Has information about 44 back roads, a number of which are paved. A newer version is available.

"John Fielder's Best of Colorado", by John Fielder, Westcliffe Publishers, 2002, ISBN 1-56579-429-X. More general in nature but with its 469 pages, the book contains a lot of information, maps, and of course, John Fielder's most excellent photographs.