Regional Trail Connectivity

As a Lyons, CO resident, conservationist and environmentalist, I ask staff and the city to consider allowing bicycles to use existing roads and trails within Button Rock Preserve, and to work with the neighboring public lands managers (Boulder County Parks & Open Space and the Forest Service) on connections for people on bikes to their lands.

For people on bicycles, the Button Rock Preserve is a crucial missing link in regional public lands access from Estes Park to Lyons. Opening such a link would allow people on bikes to ride on trails and Jeep roads from Lyons to the Peak to Peak Highway and beyond, and open up new recreation opportunities for citizens while still conserving and protecting the land and keeping traffic carrying bikes & cyclists off hwy 36.

Button Rock Preserve is an outstanding asset for conservation and protection of our public lands and watersheds, it is also Critical Recreation Habitat for humans, as it is a rare opportunity for existing regional trail connectivity between Coulson Gulch & Hall Ranch.

Please allow for sustainable and responsible access for people on bicycles. Thank you.