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16 trail reviews |
Difficulty:  - Easiest |
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| Length: 30 miles | Global Rank: #5054 |
| Tread: Greenway | Configuration: Out & Back |
| Ridden: 83 | Wishlist: 21 |
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Climb // Descend +100 // -1,000 feet |
| Average Speed: 7.4 mph | Average Time: 2hr 40min |
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Description
This trail is also known as the Pikes Peak Greenway. This is a nice wide multi-use trail that extends north from the Fountain Creek Nature Center to Palmer Lake. The trail is smooth and wide with some sandy sections. It is a great place to ride with the family or take a nice long training ride. The scenery is great, especially through the Air Force academy. Watch for joggers and walkers though as this trail is widely used by all types of recreators.
Guest on January 28, 2013
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Description
This trail is also known as the Pikes Peak Greenway. This is a nice wide multi-use trail that extends north from the Fountain Creek Nature Center to Palmer Lake. The trail is smooth and wide with some sandy sections. It is a great place to ride with the family or take a nice long training ride. The scenery is great, especially through the Air Force academy. Watch for joggers and walkers though as this trail is widely used by all types of recreators.
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Review: As a rider who lives out of state, this is one of my favorite trails to ride while in Colorado Springs. It is wide and smooth with spectacular scenery. I've taken many friends on this trail through the years, and it has never failed to get rave reviews from everyone who rode it. It's a great asset for a great area.
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Review: I did some of this trail today. It had good scenery, and was pretty fun, though very easy. What was annoying was the sand all over the place.
Review: Fun, Nice scenery, good trail to take girlfriend for bike ride together.
Review: A good ride. Lacks excitement, but has scenery to make up for (North of Woodmen)
Review: Good fitness ride, but this is not mountain biking, even for novices. Scenery is nice (to the West), but you're right next to I-25 much of the time.
Review: Great family ride on huge, dirt urban trail.
Review: This trail is a great one to do 2 or 3 times a week just for fitness ,,I ride it to palmer lake and back,,,its great!!!LOVE IT!!You really gotta be goofin off to get yourself hurt on this one ..great for beginners
Review: Great beginner trail. Long epic rides. Can be started at many points. Start at North Gate of Air Force Academy and ride to Monument is slightly up hill and about 6 miles. You could continue on to Palmer Lake, another 4 miles for a total of 20 miles round trip( coming back is slight down hill.) This is the least technical ride. To add more technical Ride South from the N. Gate of AA to Woodmen (Colorado Springs) Its here that it becomes the Pike Peaks Greenway trail. Its about 10 miles with a couple of minor technical challanges.
Bring plenty of water. Have Fun.
* Review edited 7/16/2007
* Review edited 7/16/2007
Review: This is a cool early-season training ride, as well as a great place to take newbies. Not at all technical, not too challenging exhertion-wise, but it enables you to get in some quality mileage while checking out fantastic scenery.
Review: Great family trail that is a great place to get some beginner off road miles on your bike. Pretty scenic also. Basically, not a thrill ride but a superb trail for what it is.
Review: This trail stretches from Denver to Pueblo... And in Colorado Springs it's mostly wide & smooth, with some really annoying patches of peastone and sand. Occasionally, there are small BMX pump-tracks and moto-tracks off to the side of the main trail, but none of them are really worthy of a detour. Heading south, the river become wider and the trail more hilly, and there are plenty of opportunities to watch those little rodents called prairie dogs.
Review: Great trail for beginners or people looking to get in shape without killing themselves. Mostly flat with some short hills and beautiful scenery.
Review: great trail
Review: I rode this trail to work every day for a summer. On an average day I encountered 3 snakes, and several unleashed dogs.
The AFA allows access, but you must stay on the trail. As this trail is on a flat and open area, you will recieve most of your resistance from headwinds, but this is still great training. The best part biking to work while you watch all the cars pile up on the interstate.
You can follow segments of trails from Larkspur to South Colorado Springs if you are looking for a longer ride.
Similar Trail: Greenland Trail
Similar Trail: Greenland Trail
Review: This trail was pretty much snoozville! I think if you hammered the pedals for the whole trail you MIGHT break a sweat.
Review: Really not much to say about this ride. Its a smooth dirt road that's for the most part flat; you can do this with a road bike. It's a good road for sprints and training. Round trip from the Woodmen Road trailhead to Palmer Lake and back is over 30 miles; so if you ride this hard you will get a workout.
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