Family friendly bike event held during the summer in beautiful Golden, CO!

The cruise event begins and ends at 818 14th Street, the upper deck of the Calvary Church/Armory parking garage. The riding portion is a simple loop up to the New Loveland Mine Park and back along the streets and bike trails of Golden. See the map in the downloads section.

The whole event takes place between 5:30-9:00pm. The breakdown is:

5:30pm - Kegs tapped

6:30pm - Cruise Ride

7:30pm - Kids Raffle

8:30pm - Adult Raffle

9:00pm - Music Ends

Food, Beer and Music available 5:30-9:00pm

The Bike Cruise is held on the last Tuesday of the month, May through September. There are no rain dates. Sprinkles are ok but should the weather be cold, wet and miserable, we will cancel.

Golden Community Commons (GCC) is a small non-profit working to envision the future of the historic Armory Building. Our overarching intent is to facilitate partnerships that serve the well-being of the Golden community. 

The Golden Bike Cruise is held as a fundraiser, with half of the beer sales going towards next year's expenses and the other half being donated to our monthly non-profit partners.

In 2023, our non-profit partners are the Golden High School Football Boosters, BGoldN, CASA Jeffco/Gilpin (Court Appoointed Special Advocates), Golden Lions Club and Golden Rotary. Past partners have included Leadership Golden, Golden Women in Business, Continental Divide Trail Coalition, Ralston Valley High School Robotics Club, American Mountaineering Museum, Shelton Elementary PTSA, Inspiration Fitness Studio, Maple Grove Elementary, CSM Cheerleading, Colorado Mountain Club, Big City Mountaineers and the Neighborhood Rehab Project.

We are happy to work with any Golden non-profit organization that is able to lend us 10-12 volunteers on cruise night. We start putting together our volunteers and themes in March.

We invite your Golden business to be a sponsor of the Bike Cruise!  For a small donation, we will hang your banner at every cruise, include your logo on our poster and shout out your business name during the event. 

ABSOLUTELY! We generate our profits through beer sales. Every purchase of beer awards one raffle ticket. If people want cool raffle prizes, they buy more beer and we earn more profits to share with our partners! Thank you to our amazing, generous Golden merchants for all your contributions over the years!

For kids, there are four ways to get a raffle ticket. (1) Just by showing up (2) By wearing a costume (3) By bringing canned goods for a local food pantry (4) by purchasing food. For adults, there is only one way to get raffle tickets - BUY BEER! The only way we make money is on beer purchases. All profits are split with our non-profit volunteer partners.