Fort Collins area bidding for USA Pro Cycling Challenge stage

The 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge final podium (L-R): Tejay van Garderen, 3rd; Levi Leipheimer, 1st; Christian Vande Velde, 2nd

The 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge final podium (L-R): Tejay van Garderen, 3rd; Levi Leipheimer, 1st; Christian Vande Velde, 2nd (Image credit: Jonathan Devich)

The Colorado Front Range towns of Fort Collins, Loveland and Windsor, together with Estes Park, the home of the Rocky Mountain National Park headquarters, are working together to bid to host the 2013 USA Pro Cycling Challenge. The news comes on the heels of an announcement by the Boulder local organising committee in the Denver Post that they would not submit a bid for the 2013 race.