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Editorial Policy

Last updated: June 2026

This page explains who is behind CanIBikeHere, how our pages are produced, and the standards every page on canibikehere.com is held to. We publish it so readers, journalists, and search engines can judge our work by a clear, stated process rather than guesswork.

Who runs CanIBikeHere

CanIBikeHere is an independent publication built and maintained by the CanIBikeHere Editorial Team. We are not funded, owned, or directed by any of the agencies, companies, or organizations that appear in our data. We do not accept paid placements, sponsored rankings, or fees to add, alter, or remove an entry. Our editorial judgment is not for sale.

How our content is produced

CanIBikeHere covers mountain-bike and e-bike trail legality and national-forest trail data. We build our pages from the U.S. Forest Service National Forest System Trails dataset and Administrative Forest Boundaries — official federal travel-management data: we gather the primary records, process them with documented, repeatable methods, and present them as pages a non-specialist can read. 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.

We are upfront that this is a data-publishing operation, not a wire service of on-the-ground reporters. Where we add narrative, that narrative describes and interprets the underlying public data — it never invents facts the data does not contain. Every page is checked against the source, and the methodology behind any score or ranking is documented and linkable.

Editorial standards

  • Primary source only. Every figure traces back to the U.S. Forest Service National Forest System Trails dataset and Administrative Forest Boundaries — official federal travel-management data, cited and linkable on the page where it appears.
  • No invented numbers. If a value is not in the underlying public data, it does not appear on canibikehere.com. We never generate synthetic statistics to fill gaps.
  • Documented methodology. Rankings, grades, and composite scores are editorial calculations derived from public data using stated, repeatable formulas — not certifications or endorsements.
  • Dated and refreshed. Trail designations refresh whenever the U.S. Forest Service republishes its travel-management data, on a rolling basis; the current release covers 110 national forests across 39 states nationwide.
  • Corrections welcome. When a reader or the source identifies an error, we fix it — see our Corrections Policy.

Verification and fact-checking

Because our numbers come straight from the U.S. Forest Service National Forest System Trails dataset and Administrative Forest Boundaries — official federal travel-management data, our verification work is about faithful processing rather than re-reporting. The detail of how we check figures before publication is described in our Fact-Checking Policy.

Ownership and funding transparency

CanIBikeHere is part of a small portfolio of independent public-data sites. The site is free to read and is supported by display advertising served by third parties, which is kept separate from our editorial and data decisions. We do not sell personal data. Where an outbound link is an affiliate link, it is disclosed and never changes our editorial judgment.

Contact

Questions about how a page was produced, or about these standards? hello@canibikehere.com. See also our About page and our Corrections Policy.