Nearing the end of Stage 2 of Ride the Rockies, cyclists pedal down Roosa Avenue on Monday afternoon heading toward Durango High School where thousand riding in the The Denver Post’s Ride The Rockies ended their day. The ride started in Cortez. The annual bicycle tour takes 2,000 cyclists on a weeklong ride through Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. This year’s tour began in Telluride and ends in Colorado Springs.

Cyclists cross Main Avenue on Monday as they enter Durango High School. More than 2,000 riders are participating in the The Denver Post’s Ride The Rockies. Cyclists pedaled from Cortez to Durango on Monday. The next stop is Pagosa Springs.

A cyclist enters Durango High School Monday afternoon – welcomed by bell-ringing 12-year-old Lauren Gilmeister of Appleton, Wis. The Denver Post’s Ride The Rockies annual bicycle tour takes cyclists on a weeklong ride through Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.

Supporters welcome Ride the Rockies bicyclists as they arrive in Durango on Monday. Tour participants started their journey in Telluride on Sunday, and they will continue until they reach Colorado Springs a week after leaving Telluride.

Alex Bukor of Longmont changes shoes in the Durango High School parking lot Monday afternoon after completing the Cortez-to-Durango stage of the The Denver Post’s Ride The Rockies.

Jaymi Devanas, a cyclist from Boulder, stores her bike after riding from Cortez on Monday. This is her second year participating in Ride the Rockies.

Manulagaeu Matau helps raise tents at Durango High School on Monday morning ahead of more than 2,000 cyclists headed to Durango as part of The Denver Post’s Ride The Rockies.

Emilio Dipretoro of Denver gets a massage from Geoff Bishop of Flagstaff, Ariz., at Durango High School on Monday afternoon after completing the Cortez-to-Durango stage of Ride The Rockies.

Jan Rastall, a first-time participant in Ride the Rockies, pitches her tent on the baseball fields at Durango High School on Monday.

Bicycles line tennis courts around Durango High School at the end of Monday’s Cortez-to-Durango stage of the 2013 Ride the Rockies tour. Cyclists will be back on their bikes headed to Pagosa Springs after spending the night in Durango.