Colorado Springs, CO Public Conduct: Skateboarding Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Ban trigger
- Only where authorized signs are posted
- Yield duty
- Give way to pedestrians, sound audible signal
- Devices covered
- Skateboards, roller skates, bikes, scooters, EPAMDs
- Maximum penalty
- $2,500 fine and/or 189 days jail
Summary
City Code § 10.19.107 lets Colorado Springs post signs banning skateboards, roller skates, bicycles, scooters and similar devices from specific sidewalks. Where no sign is erected, riding is allowed but the rider must yield to pedestrians and give an audible signal before passing.
When authorized signs are erected giving notice, no person shall operate a bicycle, electrical assisted bicycle, electric scooter, EPAMD, skateboard, roller skates, or similar device upon a sidewalk. ... Whenever any person is operating a bicycle, electrical assisted bicycle, electric scooter, EPAMD, skateboard, roller skates, or similar device upon a sidewalk, the person shall yield the right of way to any pedestrian and shall give audible signal before overtaking and passing the pedestrian.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-21: Code current through: Ord. 26-23, passed June 9, 2026).
Full Breakdown
" There's no blanket citywide ban on skateboarding, the prohibition only takes effect on sidewalks where the City has posted authorized signs. Subsection B imposes a yield and warning duty on anyone operating those devices on a sidewalk, signed or not: give way to pedestrians and sound an audible signal before overtaking and passing. Subsection C defines "sidewalk" broadly for this purpose, all pathways intended for pedestrian use, including the portion of an alley or driveway between the curb lines or the roadway's lateral lines and the adjacent property lines, not just a standalone paved walk.
The section sits in Article 19, which otherwise governs bicycles, electric scooters and EPAMDs under Colorado Revised Statutes Article 4, Title 42 (turn signals, required equipment, impoundment for unsafe condition), skateboards and roller skates are swept into the sidewalk-riding rule specifically but not into those separate bicycle-focused provisions. 107 was adopted by Ordinance 96-103 and amended by Ordinances 98-121, 01-42, 10-64 and 21-23.
Violations & Fines
Riding a skateboard on a sidewalk posted with an authorized no-riding sign, or failing to yield to a pedestrian and give an audible warning before passing on any sidewalk, is a citable offense under § 10.19.107. As with other Chapter 10 offenses, it falls under the Code's general penalty at § 1.1.201, up to a $2,500 fine, 189 days in jail, or probation, unless the Municipal Court's payable-fine schedule sets a lower ticket amount.
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