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Steve Stevens escorts 20006\u00a0Mayors’ Ride riders\u00a0down Golden’s Main St.<\/p>\n

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For almost as long as we have run\u00a0Mayors’ Rides, HiWheel legend\u00a0Steve Stevens<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has been trying to get his home city,\u00a0Golden, CO<\/strong>, recognized as an official NBG Mayors’ Ride city. Well, here as I upload the actual coast-to-coast\u00a0National Bicycle Greenway route for\u00a0“How America Can Bike and Grow Rich<\/a>“, I am discovering that a regular visit to Golden does make sense. I had been waiting for the bike lanes on US-36 to be complete. Projected for 2015. they will make for a straight shot from Boulder to Denver.<\/p>\n

However, state route 93 that connects Boulder to Golden, though it does represent a small 5 mile detour, \u00a0has a shoulder that has been upgraded well enough to satisfy Steve.\u00a0And once we get there, our path to Denver will get us back on\u00a0US-40,\u00a0an historic \u00a0road that dates back to 1926. Once called the Victory Highway, it ran from San Francisco \u00a0to Atlantic City, NJ.<\/p>\n

One of America’s first coast-to-coast roads, as a US highway, the ascents and descents on US-40 have all been graded so there is not constant up and down hill work. Largely abandoned in favor of Interstate 80, we will have used it to get over the Wasatch Mtn Range in Utah, most of the Rockies in Colorado, most of Indiana and some of Ohio before we end on the C&O Canal Towpath in Washington DC. Upgrading those section of US-40 that we will be using to the NBG shoulder spec we are calling for should be fairly easy to accomplish over the next 5-10 years.<\/p>\n

Besides CO-93 offering more enjoyable riding, do consider these interesting facts about Golden that Steve sent me:<\/p>\n

Golden has the largest Brewery in the World (Free Tours, Free Beer)!<\/p>\n

A few reasons you need to include Golden:<\/p>\n

1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It has more museums than any other city in Colorado<\/p>\n

2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Golden is what Boulder wishes it still was!\u00a0 Boulder is a has been \u2013 a crowded big city of 130,000 people. Golden has 18,000\u2026<\/p>\n

3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It has a Bike Park \u2013 with Mountain Bile trails, Pump Park, etc\u2026 It was established before Denver\u2019s or Boulder’s.<\/p>\n

4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Yeti has their bike factory here (all hand made bikes)\u2026 the workers ride on Lunch hour up Lookout Mountain from the factory door.<\/p>\n

5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It was the historic capitol<\/p>\n

6)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is home to The Colorado Mountain Club<\/p>\n

7)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is home to Outward Bound<\/p>\n

8)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is home to the American Mountaineering Center (and the Mountaineering Museum and the Rare Books Library (this was moved her from NYC)<\/p>\n

9)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Each of the last 3 institutions came here in the last 10 years \u2013 rather than locating in Boulder.<\/p>\n

10)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Golden was just ranked number 2 in the USA for Livable Cities in the small city class\u2026. Announced in the last 6 weeks.<\/p>\n

11)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Golden is home to the USGS National Earthquake Center (with tours)<\/p>\n

12)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It has a professional White Water Kayak Course \u2013 and hosted the National Championships a few years ago.<\/p>\n

13)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is a Bicycle Friendly City \u2013 more than you can Imagine.<\/p>\n

14)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It has EACH YEAR hosted a Start in the USA PRO CYCLING CHALLENGE<\/p>\n

15)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In the 1980s, it was the host city for the Coors Classic bike race nearly every year (Coors is Based in Golden)<\/p>\n

16)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It was featured in the Movie \u201cAmerican Flyer\u201d about the Coors Classic.<\/p>\n

17)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It has the Mountain Climbing Classes for the Mountaineering Center\u2026 on real mountains in Golden.<\/p>\n

18)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Golden had a bike club as early as 1883\u2026<\/p>\n

19)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Golden had a cyclist (Jim Boyd) who rode in 1869\u2026 on a Velocipede.<\/p>\n

20)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Golden hosted the first Colorado State bike hill climb Championship in 1891<\/p>\n

21)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Colorado School of Mines (MIT CALIBER Engineering School ) graduated all the miners who got the resource\u00a0Boom going \u2013 Including Mr Guggenheim \u2013 who has 2 museums which he created in his name\u2026 NYC and Spain.\u00a0He also donated a Guggenheim Hall here with a Gold Dome<\/p>\n

22)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0You can successfully pan for Gold in Golden. On bike rides you see folks doing it.<\/p>\n

23)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0You can hang glide in Golden from Lookout Mountain.<\/p>\n

24)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Buffalo Bill chose Golden for his final resting Place. He is here \u2026 as is his museum.<\/p>\n

25)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0You can ride from my museum at 5900 ft elevation to the peak of Mount Evans (14,370 ft) and back and call it a century \u2013 all on paved roads..The only possible century on paved roads to the top of a 14er mountain from a bike museum.<\/p>\n

BUT MOST SIGNIFICANTLY:<\/p>\n

26)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0When Obama was here a few weeks ago \u2013 he opened his remarks with \u201c Wow, it is so beautiful here! How do you get any work done?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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