The 2007 USA Cycling Professional Tour is the inaugural year of a professional road bicycle racing series organized by USA Cycling.
Levi Leipheimer and the Discovery Channel team won the overall individual and team titles respectively. Leipheimer finished the season with 381 points over teammate George Hincapie, Germany’s Bernhard Eisel, Juan José Haedo of Argentina and Slovenia’s Janez Brajkovič. The now-defunct Discovery Channel team earned the team title with 810 points over Team CSC, Slipstream-Chipotle, T-Mobile Team and Navigators Insurance.
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