Lizard Head Cycling Guides
Lizard Head Cycling Guides offers the best in Colorado Bicycle Tours, across the US and even Canada!
Lizard Head Cycling Guides provides vehicle-supported road & mountain bike tours through some of the wildest, most beautiful and inaccessible areas in the American West and beyond.
Bike Tours: Lizard Head Cycling Guides leads some of the most spectacular Colorado Bicycle Tours and US-based bike tours anywhere. You'll go to places where the other guys don't, and we'll provide you with everything you need - lodging, routes, and an expert guide.
Road Bike Tours: Enjoy America's magnificent natural beauty on one of our many road bike tours. These unforgettable trips take you through vast deserts, tranquil rural landscapes and majestic mountains. We'll lead you on the road bike adventure of a lifetime.
Mountain Bike Tours: Navigating new territory on mountain trails can be challenging and time consuming. Lizard Head takes the hassle out of planning and offers unbeatable off-road tours that appeal to the most adventurous bikers. Leave the logistics to us. All you have to enjoy is the riding.
Bike Tours Colorado: Some of the most breathtaking landscapes in the country are right here in Colorado. Imagine standing atop a summit with a 360-degree view of only mountainous terrain. You then fly down a smooth single-track course on your sturdy bike. It's long but enthralling, challenging but inviting. That's a typical day one experience you'll enjoy if you ride in our "backyard."
Colorado Cols
Tour Operator: Lizard Head Cycling Guides
USA
7 days (Bike: 7 days)
485 mi (~69mi per day)
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Big climbs, On-road
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As Colorado locals, Lizard Head Cycling Guides, believes this is among the finest Colorado Bike Tour offered - the Colorado Cols.
This carefully crafted cycling adventure spins a stunning route through the picturesque Grand Mesa, Gunnison, and White River National Forests plus over some iconic mountain passes (called “cols” in Europe) including Kebler Pass, Cottonwood Pass (newly paved), Independence Pass, and McClure Pass. We also visit and spend time in both Crested Butte, Colorado and Aspen, Colorado – two different, but equally enchanting Rocky Mountain towns.
Shenandoah Valley
Tour Operator: Lizard Head Cycling Guides
USA
6 days (Bike: 6 days)
340 mi (~57mi per day)
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Hilly, On-road
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The Shenandoah Valley is a cycling nirvana bounded to the east by the Blue Ridge Mountains and to the west by the eastern front of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians.
Our Shenandoah bike tour delivers small road riding that twists, turns and climbs through what we feel is the best rolling hill cycling topography in eastern North America. Cyclists ride through the verdant Blue Ridge and Appalachian mountains of Virginia experiencing the rich history of the land and that of the Civil War Confederacy. The Shenandoah Valley is well suited for upper intermediate to advanced cyclists.
The word Shenandoah is of unknown origin, though the most popular and romanticized belief is that it derives from a Native American expression for “Beautiful Daughter of the Stars.”
Redrock Canyons
Tour Operator: Lizard Head Cycling Guides
USA
6 days (Bike: 6 days)
555 mi (~93mi per day)
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Some hills, Quiet roads
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The Redrock Canyons is Lizard Head Cycling's original tour and became our most popular itinerary after it was featured in the New York Times in 2010.
The Redrocks tour is a supported lodge to lodge road cycling tour that follows a Seldom Seen route through the Redrock Canyon Country of western Colorado and eastern Utah. This iconic region boasts striking geologic features, numerous prehistoric cultural sites and encompasses some of the “greatest unexplored wilderness in the country”. If one was to ride just one tour in the American West, this is the one to experience.
The Redrock Canyons is still our best bike tour with unmatched scenery and fantastic lodging. It is a superb tour for all abilities ranging from intermediate to E.F.I. (every freaking inch) riders. Although the Redrock Canyons tour appears to be a big mileage tour, the mileage segments are determined by the distance between lodges in this remote landscape, as such we cater each day so that intermediate level riders enjoy themselves immensely. This is our flag-ship tour and you can do it! We guarantee you’ll love the Redrock Canyons bike tour.
Big Bend Texas
Tour Operator: Lizard Head Cycling Guides
USA
5 days (Bike: 5 days)
175 mi (~35mi per day)
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Big climbs, Off-road
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Lizard Head Cycling Guides has found a mountain bike hide away in the far west Texas mountains of Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park
Big Bend is the largest, most remote, and least visited National Park in the lower 48 states. The combination of 8,000-foot mountains and Chihuahuan desert together make Big Bend the most biologically diverse landscape in the North America. The region offers surprisingly good singletrack, rugged jeep trails and warm temperatures to MTB riders. The weather is best ridden in the late winter/early spring and late fall months.
Northwoods & Lake Superior
Tour Operator: Lizard Head Cycling Guides
USA
6 days (Bike: 6 days)
430 mi (~72mi per day)
Leisure
Some hills, On-road
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Lizard Head Cycling Guides travels to the Northwoods and Lake Superior region on a Wisconsin Bike Tour that meets our criteria for exceptional bike travel.
Join our local Wisconsin native guides to experience a landscape of breweries, rolling hills, islands and great food at it’s best: from the saddle of your bicycle.
Why Ride this Wisconsin Bike Tour?
Lizard Head Cycling’s criteria for the creation of exceptional cycling tours runs first from finding car-free roads, then to big scenery, and then next to including routes that include exceptional lodging & food. Pavement smoothness is the number four criteria and it usually suffers in quality when delivering the car-free roads we love. This is not the case in Wisconsin! Join our Wisconsin Bike Tour for silky pavement, empty roads, boundless swimming opportunities and fabulous fresh water seafood. Wisconsin is fabulous cycling destination!
New York to Vermont to Montreal
Tour Operator: Lizard Head Cycling Guides
USA & Canada
7 days (Bike: 6 days)
400 mi (~67mi per day)
Active
Some hills, Quiet roads
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The New York and Vermont to Montreal bike tour has it all!
Pedal from the lush Lakes Region of New York, cross Lake Champlain by ferry, climb Vermont’s Green Mountains, descend back to an island for a stay in the middle of Lake Champlain, cross the border into the vibrant city of Montreal and finally return via train along Lake Champlain. Lizard Head Cycling’s owner, John Humphries, attended college in Vermont and knows the Green Mountain state well. With mountains, islands and Montreal as the final destination, this is one of our best touring experiences that is not to be missed.
Pedal through small towns on roads and bike highways that see little traffic.
Ride Vermont’s quiet road over the mountains (aka Gaps). Climb up to six Gaps during three days of Vermont mountain cycling.
Experience Lake Champlain’s islands while riding bridges and causeways into Canada.
Zion to Taos (Z2T)
Tour Operator: Lizard Head Cycling Guides
USA
13 days (Bike: 12 days)
885 mi (~74mi per day)
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Hilly, On-road
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The Zion to Taos Bike Tour (Z-2-T) traces a mountainous path across Utah, Colorado and the high peaks of northern New Mexico.
It is an exceptionally scenic route that showcases the high mountains, National Parks & hot springs (ahhh!) of the Four Corners Region. Cyclists can join he Z-2-T and ride for 4-days, 1-week or the entire 2-weeks. Over the course of its 2-weeks the tour climbs the elevated plateaus of Utah, the mighty San Juan Mountains of Colorado and the continental divide in New Mexico.
Spanish Peaks/Colorado Cols Epic
Tour Operator: Lizard Head Cycling Guides
USA
14 days (Bike: 13 days)
1130 mi (~87mi per day)
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Some hills, Big climbs, On-road
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Lizard Head Cycling Guides combines two great Colorado cycling tours into one!
Picking the “best of the best” from our Spanish Peaks & Great Sand Dunes tour and our Colorado Cols tour, this audacious two week adventure weaves it’s way through the majestic peaks of Colorado’s most mighty 14’ers. See the state of Colorado at “Bike Speed”.
Willamette Valley Bike Tour
Tour Operator: Lizard Head Cycling Guides
USA
6 days (Bike: 6 days)
310 mi (~52mi per day)
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This tour covers the upper to middle portion of the verdant Willamette Valley of northwest Oregon, a region known for world class wines, farm fresh foods and it's easy going and gentle cycling terrain.
The Willamette Valley Oregon Bike Tour offers miles and miles of quiet rural roads along gentle rolling terrain weaving through the farmlands and vineyards of the fertile Willamette Valley with some of the tour following the Willamette Valley Scenic Bikeway. The Willamette Valley is a quality wine producing region on par with California (but far less known) with riders enjoying great riding and exceptional wine on this tour.
This tour is geared towards intermediate cyclists looking for a relaxing and leisurely Oregon cycling tour.
Nova Scotia
Tour Operator: Lizard Head Cycling Guides
Canada
7 days (Bike: 7 days)
400 mi (~57mi per day)
Active
Hilly, On-road
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Yet another bike-it list destination - Nova Scotia, one of Canada's three Maritime provinces.
Considered as one of Bicycle Magazine’s Top Ten Rides, the Nova Scotia bike tour offers one of the top cycling destinations in North America with majestic ocean views and seafood to enjoy throughout the tour. We have incorporated healthy mileage, all the sights and several days along the majestic Cabot Trail into our Nova Scotia bike tour.