About CanIBikeHere
E-bike rules and national-forest mountain-bike trail data, from the source.
What we do
CanIBikeHere is the neutral, data-rich reference for where you can legally ride: per-forest and per-class e-bike rules, computed trail-mile and surface profiles for every national forest, and the season windows the trail apps don’t surface — all drawn straight from authoritative U.S. Forest Service data rather than crowd-sourced guesses.
We focus on mountain-bike and e-bike trail legality and national-forest trail data. Every page on canibikehere.com is built from the U.S. Forest Service National Forest System Trails dataset and Administrative Forest Boundaries — official federal travel-management data, cited and linkable so readers can trace any number back to its source.
Who runs this
CanIBikeHere is built and maintained by the Tim Adair. We're a small group working on making public mountain-bike and e-bike trail legality and national-forest trail data data easier for non-specialists to read. If you have a correction, a data tip, or a question about how a number was derived, the contact email below reaches us directly.
Who this is for
CanIBikeHere is built for mountain bikers and e-bikers checking whether their bike is legal on a given trail or forest, and riders planning trips around season windows and trail mileage.
Why this exists
Public data on mountain-bike and e-bike trail legality and national-forest trail data is technically free, but practically locked behind file formats, acronyms, and paywalled dashboards. CanIBikeHereexists to close that gap: take the raw federal and public-sector data, and turn it into pages a normal person can read in thirty seconds.
How we work
- Primary source only. We pull from the U.S. Forest Service National Forest System Trails dataset and Administrative Forest Boundaries — official federal travel-management data and cite the exact dataset and version on every page.
- No invented numbers. If a figure is not in the underlying public data, it does not appear on canibikehere.com. We never generate synthetic statistics to fill gaps.
- Methodology, in plain English. Every figure is derived from the USFS National Forest System Trails dataset. For each trail segment we read the managed, accepted, discouraged and restricted seasons for bicycle and Class 1/2/3 e-bike use, plus trail class, surface, grade, accessibility and mileage, then aggregate them per forest and per state. Season date ranges are unioned into plain-language windows. We present conventional-bike and e-bike designations separately rather than conflating them, and we surface trail grade (steepness) without inferring a technical MTB difficulty rating from it.
- Refreshed on a schedule. Trail designations refresh whenever the U.S. Forest Service republishes its travel-management data, on a rolling basis; the current release covers eight states and is expanding.
- Corrections welcome. Readers flag issues all the time. When the source fixes a record, CanIBikeHere follows.
Known limitations
Designations and seasons change, and forest- or district-level orders can override the published data — always confirm current rules with the managing ranger district before you ride. This is the regulatory and structural layer, not live trail conditions, and it covers National Forest System land only, not state, county or private trails. Nothing here is legal advice and no U.S. Forest Service endorsement is implied.
Independence
CanIBikeHere is an independent publication. We are not funded, owned, or directed by any of the agencies, companies, or organizations that appear in our data. Hosting is paid for by advertising — see our Privacy Policy for details — and we do not take paid placements, sponsored rankings, or "remove-my-entry" fees.
History
CanIBikeHere launched in 2026 as part of a small portfolio of independent public-data sites. It has been maintained and updated continuously since.
Contact
Tips, corrections, data-partnership questions, and press inquiries: hello@canibikehere.com. More options on our contact page.