The Town of Marana recognizes the growing need and responsibility to provide opportunities for people to bike within the Town and we have made the commitment to ensure that current and future planning accommodates this need on a local and regional level. Our goals include developing and maintaining an integrated system of bikeways and ensuring safe and convenient bicycle access throughout the Town.

THE LOOP

The nationally award-winning, Chuck Huckelberry Loop, (AKA “The Loop”) is a system of paved, shared-use paths and short segments of buffered bike lanes connecting the Cañada del Oro, Rillito, Santa Cruz, and Pantano River Parks with the Julian Wash and Harrison Road Greenway. The Loop extends through unincorporated Pima County, Marana, Oro Valley, Tucson, and South Tucson.

MOUNTAIN BIKING

A trailhead at Dove Mountain, in the Town of Marana, leads northeast into Wild Burro Canyon, where it connects to trails that trace the crest above Cochie Canyon to the northwest or delve into neighboring terrain to the north and east.

Cochie, Wild Burro, and Ruelas Canyons cut through the southwest end of the Tortolita Mountains.

Offering beginning to advanced technical trails. 

BIKING IN TOWN

There are a number of very enjoyable bike rides within the Town of Marana. Those who prefer to ride on a paved surface may take advantage of a growing system of bike routes and multi-use lanes along some of the Town’s arterial and collector streets.  Bike lanes along Silverbell Road from Cortaro Road northwest to Twin Peaks Road are quite popular with residents of Continental Ranch, as are the striped multi-use lanes on Coachline Boulevard and Continental Reserve Loop. Other popular roadways with striped multi-use lanes are Twin Peaks Road, Cortaro Farms Road, Ina Road, Tangerine Road, Tangerine Farms Road, Lon Adams Road in Gladden Farms, and Dove Mountain Boulevard. 

• Pima Association of Governments (PAG) Regional Bicycling Program

• City of Tucson Bike Program

• Pima County Bicycling and Pedestrian Program

• Tucson /Pima County Bicycle Advisory Committee

• ADOT Bicycle and Pedestrian Program

• National Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center

• Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute Greater Arizona Bicycle Association

• Perimeter Bicycling Association of America

• Tucson Velo

• League of American Bicyclists