Moving to Denver!

[out_spokin']

another welcome to Colorado, and congrats on med school! I live in Colorado Springs, but lived in Denver for four years and commute to Denver downtown a few days a week...I'm not all that familiar with Aurora either, though I did see the new medical campus and it's pretty nice!

Living carfree in that area will be a bit challenging but with a bike things are pretty doable -- Denver, despite the rep of being "in the mountains" is really flat - that plus great weather and great bike advocacy means biking is a happy thing here.

I highly recommend getting this map: http://bicyclecolo.org/itemdetails.cfm?id=250. (think about joining Bicycle Colorado, too, it's a fantastic organization!)

It's an incredibly good resource for figuring out how to get around by bike, and I've used it before with a compass and a string to decide where my radius to look for housing would be, and then you can overlap that with the rtd-denver.com bus route maps (all buses here have bike racks). Your six mile radius will give you quite a lot of choices. Park Hill and the Stapleton area might be a nice way to be close enough to school but give you fairly easy access to downtown when you have some time off. Lowry has done some nice re-development if you're looking for an apartment.

Good luck!

[Pedal Wench]

Insanely jealous!

[canonsue]

Congratulations on Med school. I live up in the foothills in Conifer about a 25 minute drive from the Denver metro area. Denver is flat but where I live it is not. I live on a very popular and difficult bike training route and I see hundreds of cyclists go by in a weekend. As a someone just getting back to riding a bike, I go down to the flatlands of Denver and use the bicycle paths to start my fitness journey.

Welcome to Colorado.

-Sue