Broomfield Wayfinding Plan

Getting lost is no fun! A well-placed and well-designed wayfinding system can help you get around Broomfield more easily on foot or by bike. That’s why the City is kicking off the Broomfield Wayfinding Plan!

As a part of the Broomfield Wayfinding Plan, the City will develop wayfinding signs to help you know where to go, and find your way when you are walking or bicycling around Broomfield.

This project has two parts: 

1. Identify walking and bicycling destinations and determine sign locations to help you get there. The City wants to hear from you! Where do you walk and bicycle? Do you sometimes get lost, or wonder about the best route to get where you’re going? As a first step, the City wants to learn from you about where you walk and bicycle and to identify where to put wayfinding signs to help you find your way.
2. Design wayfinding signs. As a second step, the City will be creating a standard design for the wayfinding signs and pavement markings (colors, size, fonts, icons, etc.) to make finding locations throughout Broomfield easy, identifiable, and consistent for residents and visitors.

Together, these two parts will help us, City and County staff, implement a citywide wayfinding system to encourage more Broomfield residents and visitors to walk and bicycle, and give you confidence that you know where you’re going!

Wayfinding includes a variety of ways to support a trip.

The word “wayfinding” generally refers to how people find their way to where they want to go, such as to trails, schools, shopping, and other places. The City and County of Broomfield is currently developing a new plan, called the Broomfield Wayfinding Plan, that will create signs and identify specific locations for the signs to help you find your way.  These signs and markings will be posted at key locations on trails, streets, bikeways, sidewalks, paths, and other places that you walk and bicycle. The signs will provide information, direct you to comfortable routes, and connect you with important destinations.

These signs and markings are intended to help people as you use active transportation, which includes walking, bicycling, using a wheelchair, using in-line skates or scooters, skateboarding, and jogging. Active transportation can also include other ways of getting around, such as using e-powered mobility devices including electric bicycles, mobility scooters, wheelchairs, one-wheel skateboards, and other devices. 

In 2019, Broomfield developed the  Broomfield Bicycle & Pedestrian Assessment  which identified gaps in the existing bicycle and pedestrian network and developed a list of bikeway and pedestrian projects to close these gaps and better serve the community. During that process, residents expressed that they enjoy using the low-stress bikeways, trails, sidewalks, and other facilities. However, what’s needed next is wayfinding signage throughout Broomfield to help people feel comfortable and know they are on the right path to their destination while walking and bicycling. The Broomfield Wayfinding Plan will ultimately identify four to six priority corridors for the near-term implementation of wayfinding and then incrementally build out a citywide wayfinding system over the long term.

In the next couple of years, we plan to install wayfinding signs along several priority corridors based on available funding—these priority corridors for implementation are shown in the map below. In the long-term, we will incrementally build out the wayfinding citywide.

In addition to the priority corridors for implementation, the map below also provides context that may be helpful as you consider opportunities for wayfinding in Broomfield. The additional layers that can be viewed in the map include: existing bicycle routes (including those that are comfortable for bicyclists of all ages and abilities, or "low-stress"), proposed bicycle routes, trails, parks, and other destinations.

The map surveys are now closed. Visit  https://www.broomfieldvoice.com/wayfinding  to follow along for project updates!