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On Tuesday, March 14th, the Fort Collins City Council will begin discussing what to do with the former Hughes Stadium property. They recently released their agenda packet for Tuesday's  Work Session; it includes the results from a five-month study conducted by the consulting company Kearns and West. The 57-page packet includes the results from public surveys and focus group meetings. While there is strong support for a bike park, it isn't the only purpose presented.

YGR learned yesterday that the City of Fort Collins is officially under contract to buy the former Hughes Stadium property from Colorado State University. Fort Collins City Manager, Kelly DiMartino, notified city council and Mayor Arndt that she signed the contract on Thursday, March 2nd.

The USA Cycling road season kicked off here in Colorado with the Frostbite Time Trail hosted by Team Rio Grande Racing on Saturday. 168 racers from across the region took part in the 11-mile individual and team time trials. 19 of those racers were from NoCo/SoWyo and ended up on the podium.

Trek is hosting Overalnd's March Trail Talks event at their Fort Collins North location. On the docket for discussion this month - Bike Parks! Most know...okay, everyone now knows...about the big push currently underway to see a bike park included as part of the future use of the former Hughes Stadium site. They'll discuss Hughes and other area bike parks that are in the works.

The Colorado USAC road season kicks off this weekend with the Frostbite Time Trials just North of Fort Collins. The races take place on Saturday and registration closes tonight!

USA cycling announced the additions of former professional cyclists and Fort Collins residents Kristen Arnold and Gavin Mannion to its Road Development staff.  Arnold will take on the role of Women’s Development Road Director while Mannion will be the new Junior Men's Road Director.

The city of Fort Collins confirmed that they are moving forward with plans for a grade-separated crossing at the intersection of the Power Trail and Harmony Road.  This bike/ped crossing has been a high-priority item for the city but funding for the project has been hard to come by.  In January of this year, the city was awarded a $2.7 million grant through the Federal Highway Administration Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Improvement Program but they're still $3 million dollars away from being fully funded

Bicycle Colorado announced a simpler and less expensive racer licensing model for Colorado cyclists on Thursday. According to BC the new partnership with USA Cycling will save racers time and $40.00 annually. BC absorbed Colorado Cycling aka the Bicycle Racing Association of Colorado in December of 2022.

I took the opportunity to reach out to Fort Collins Parks Planning and Development and Larimer County Natural resources to find out the status of the long-awaited Poudre River Trail. Once complete, the PRT will be over 40 miles in length (one way), from Bellvue, north of Fort Collins, to Island Grove Park in Greeley. It's taken 40 years to get to this point.

The city of Fort Collins recently released a second survey regarding the Hughes property's future and the results from the first survey.
In the previous survey, which had 2647 replies and is 263 pages long, the term 'bike' was mentioned 1332 times, the term 'valm' (as in Valmont) was mentioned 226 times, and the term 'cycl' as in bicycle, cyclists, cycling, cyclocross...) was mentioned 183 times

According to the Longmont Times-Call newspaper, Firestone Colorado will be building a 1.29-acre bike park with a price not-to-exceed $573,931 at the southwest corner of Mountain Shadows Park. The park is being designed and constructed by the Missouri-based American Ramp Company and will include an asphalt pump track and jump lines.  Construction is scheduled to begin this spring, and the project has a target completion date of late summer or early fall.

Fort Collins Police Services announced the death of a second cyclist in as many days here in Fort Collins. Today's collision took place at the intersection of Harmony Road and McMurry Ave at approximately 11:39 am Monday, February 13th.  This is near the proposed location of a grade-separated crossing (tunnel or bridge) intended to join the Power Line Trail safely.