The National Park Service says 65-year-old Stanley Dodson of Madison lost control of his bike while riding down Rim Rock Drive on Saturday. He was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center in Grand Junction, where he died on Sunday.
Dodson worked as a zoology professor at the University of Madison Wisconsin.
It’s the first fatal bicycling accident in the history of the 98-year-old park, which has sweeping views of red rock canyons.