Colorado Springs to Thornton bus

Buses from Colorado Springs to Thornton start at €10.07 and take 2h 37m at their fastest.

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The Buses from Colorado Springs to Thornton starts at €10.07 and takes 2h 37m door to door, run by 2 operators over 133 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 17, 2026Priced for October 2, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 2h 37mDoor to door
  • 1h 53mMoving
  • €10.08 to €20.53From
  • 06:13 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 3Per day
  • 3.6 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 2, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€10.08 to €20.53 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Bustang Outrider runs this service and does not sell it here. Bookaway takes the payment.

Buying this trip

Bookaway lists departures for Colorado Springs to Thornton on your date, and you pay on their side.

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €16.13Fri18
  2. about €20.53Sat19
  3. about €13.38Sun20
  4. about €11.73Mon21
  5. about €12.28Tue22
  6. about €12.83Wed23
  7. about €15.58Thu24
  8. about €14.48Fri25
  9. about €12.83Sat26
  10. about €11.73Sun27
  11. about €11.18Mon28
  12. about €10.63Tue29
  13. about €10.08Wed30
  14. about €12.28Thu1

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 2, 2026

Cheapest€10.07
  1. RTD RT809006:131h 54m08:07Woodman Park 'n RideWagon Road Park-n-Ride

Door to door 2h 38mCO2 3.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Fastest€11.18
  1. Bustang Outrider BO118906:141h 53m08:07Woodman Park 'n RideWagon Road Park-n-Ride

Door to door 2h 37mCO2 3.6 kgChanges 0Changeable for a fee

Carriers

Bus operators

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFastest
Bustang Outrider2h 33m
RTD2h 34m

The bus gets you into Thornton. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Thornton for the night the bus gets in

Sort by distance from Original Thornton/88th station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Colorado Springs to Thornton

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €11.1890 days
  2. €10.0760 days
  3. €10.0745 days
  4. €10.0830 days
  5. €11.1821 days
  6. €12.2814 days
  7. €15.587 days
  8. €13.383 days
  9. €16.131 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €10.07.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 60 percent. The most expensive point is €16.13, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €11.73Sun
  2. €11.18Mon
  3. €10.63Tue
  4. €10.08Wed
  5. €12.28Thu
  6. €14.48Fri
  7. €12.83Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Colorado Springs

Bus
  • Woodman Park 'n Ride
  • Citadel Transfer station

Thornton

Bus
  • Wagon Road Park-n-Ride
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
67% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 33% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 133 km against 116 km in a straight line, a detour of 15 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Fort Collins. The gap between arriving and leaving is 78 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 12 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Colorado Springs at 06:13 and the last at 07:30, across 3 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Colorado Springs to Thornton

The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Coach from Colorado Springs to Thornton take?

The Coach from Colorado Springs to Thornton takes 2h 37m door to door, of which 1h 53m is spent moving. The route runs 133 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Coach from Colorado Springs to Thornton cost?

The Coach from Colorado Springs to Thornton starts at €10.07 for one passenger, as of September 17, 2026. A typical fare is €11.18. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Coach from Colorado Springs to Thornton?

2 operators run the Coach from Colorado Springs to Thornton: Bustang Outrider, RTD. Between them they file around 3 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Coach from Colorado Springs to Thornton use?

The Coach from Colorado Springs to Thornton leaves from Woodman Park 'n Ride and arrives at Wagon Road Park-n-Ride. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Coach from Colorado Springs to Thornton?

Fares for the Coach from Colorado Springs to Thornton bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €10.07. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 60 percent, measured on September 17, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Coach from Colorado Springs to Thornton produce?

The Coach from Colorado Springs to Thornton produces about 3.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 133 km, which works out at roughly 27 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Coach from Colorado Springs to Thornton?

Operators on the Coach from Colorado Springs to Thornton publish Power outlets, Restrooms, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 2h 37m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Colorado Springs to Thornton on September 17, 2026: 133 km of route against 116 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €10.07, and 2h 37m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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