Montrose is First Stop on 2014 Bicycle Tour of Colorado A City-Wide Celebration is Planned to Welcome Summer Visitors Vendors Encouraged at Community Festival June 22 through June 28, 2014, over 700 cyclists from all over the world will participate in the 20th Annual Bicycle Tour of Colorado (BTC), one of Colorado’s ultimate cycling adventures. Riders will be cycling over 400 miles through the beautiful Colorado Rockies. The seven day adventure starts in Gunnison, with Montrose as the first stop on Sunday, June 22. Cyclists will conclude their day trip at Columbine Middle School in Montrose with a local welcoming celebration next door at Rotary Park. The public is invited to the all-day event. Festivities kick off with a Lions Club pancake breakfast fundraiser at 9am to welcome riders into town and also offer a send-off to participants of the VFW State Convention, which is in town June 18-22. “Bike tours are great for tourism, and we’re thrilled Montrose is on the BTC route this year,” said Stacey Ryan, special events coordinator for the City of Montrose’s Office of Business and Tourism (OBT), which is sponsoring the event along with the Montrose Area Bicycle Alliance (MABA), and the Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Association (COPMOBA). “The tour brings hundreds of visitors to town, and we get to throw a party for locals and visitors to come together for the day and showcase Montrose.” The tour celebration will be combined with a send-off breakfast for the VFW State Convention participants. “This is our way of saying ‘thanks!’ to the VFW for choosing Montrose as the host site of their 93rd Annual State Convention,” Ryan explained. “Sharing the morning with the VFW participants surrounded by all the bike tour festivities will bring these events together at a venue where the town can enjoy the day, too.” Music, food, arts/crafts booths will be open from 9am-8pm. Businesses and nonprofits are encouraged to become vendors for a nominal fee: businesses $25; nonprofits $10. Shuttles will move participants out to the Black Canyon National Park and throughout town to eat, shop, and enjoy Montrose. All three museums will host a “fee free day” from noon – 6pm, opening their doors to welcome riders and the public. MABA and COPMOBA will provide a beer garden (including wine and margaritas) as a group fundraiser from 4-8 pm. At 8:30 pm MABA will cap off the evening with a free Bike-In Movie, Back to the Future, sponsored by Alpine Bank. People are encouraged to bike or walk to the park to enjoy the movie. Popcorn will be available on a donation basis. “We’re looking for everyone in Montrose to serve as a host and help warmly welcome visitors to our All-America City,” explained Ryan. Over the last twenty years, the Bicycle Tour of Colorado has catered to over 25,000 cyclists and raised over $375,000 for a number of charities in Colorado, including Rocky Mountain PBS, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Special Olympics, and Adaptive Adventures. For more information about MABA, visit MontroseBicycle.org. For more information about the BTC, call (303) 985-1180 or visit bicycletourcolorado. # # # For information about the visitor center, tourism, and fun things to do in Montrose, visit VisitMontrose. Follow the visitor center on Facebook (facebook/visitmontrose) and Twitter (@VisitMontrose). The visitor center is located at 107 South Cascade Avenue in downtown Montrose and may be reached at (970) 497-8558. Winter hours are Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:19:50 +0000
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