Fargo has an expanding network of striped bike lanes and shared-use paths along the Red River, with rules requiring bicycles to follow vehicle traffic laws and yield to pedestrians on multi-use trails.
The Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Council of Governments and the Fargo Engineering Department plan and maintain on-street bike lanes and shared-use paths, including the popular Red River Greenway. State law and Fargo Municipal Code treat bicycles largely as vehicles, requiring riders to obey traffic signals, ride with traffic, and use lights at night. On shared-use trails, bicyclists must yield to pedestrians and announce when passing. Sidewalk riding is generally discouraged in dense commercial districts such as Downtown and Broadway. The city continues to add protected lanes through capital improvement projects funded jointly with state and federal sources.
Riding against traffic, ignoring signals, riding without lights at night, or unsafe passing on trails can result in citations under city traffic-code provisions.
See how Fargo's bike lane rules rules stack up against other locations.
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