A Boulder County sheriff’s deputy ticketed a 58-year-old woman Monday after catching her driving her car on the paved bike path alongside the Boulder-bound lanes of U.S. 36 on Davidson Mesa.

Dispatchers began receiving reports of a silver car driving on the U.S. 36 bikeway around 9 a.m. Monday, sheriff’s spokeswoman Carrie Haverfield said. The vehicle also was captured by a driver with a dashcam who posted the video to reddit later that morning.

When a deputy found the car, the driver said she mistakenly had gotten onto the path near McCaslin Boulevard, thinking it was a frontage road, Haverfield said.

The woman told deputies she drove down the path toward Boulder, until she could not drive any further. She then turned around and headed back up the mesa before she was stopped by a deputy.

Haverfield said the woman did not appear to be intoxicated, so she was issued a ticket for driving in a lane not designated for travel.The deputy helped her get off the bike path and onto the road.

Only emergency vehicles and designated maintenance vehicles are allowed to drive on the bikeway.

Sheriff’s officials have not released the woman’s name, but said the vehicle was registered to a Louisville address.

The bike path, which stretches from Boulder to Westminster on either side of U.S. 36,has been open in its entirety for more than two years.

Mitchell Byars: 303-473-1329, byarsm@dailycamera.com or twitter.com/mitchellbyars.