Founded in 1989

For three decades, the National Bicycle Greenway has had the vision of a perfect world Car Free Greenway before the American bicycling public. When we first gave voice to this possibility in 1989, our hope was that large corporate dollars would see its virtue, align with regional government and help us usher it into form. The internet, which did not exist when we birthed this bold scheme and also coined the word ‘Greenway’ has finally matured into a tool we can use to turn this into a movement fueled by individuals and not big money interests. Toward that end, we have done a complete overhaul of BikeRoute.com. Outside of the population centers we soon will be talking about here, we now have a way for the public to build, grow and maintain the human powered heaven we long have foreseen.

Our Mission

Upon compiling the results from our NBG Scouting missions, Mayors’ Ride relays, the GPS input that came our way when we had interactive maps at our site and Google’s bike map recommendations, in 2014 we made the San Francisco to Washington, DC connection that resulted, the centerpiece of our web site.

With our new 2020 homepage, we plan to establish the coast-to-coast route you see here as the Bicycle Main Street of America. In going forward, we will inter-connect the 20 NBG anchor cities we have established by building Dowtown Greenway (with the Indianapolis Cultural Trail as our model) in each of them. By making the population centers we have selected attractive cycling destinations, bike routes will be built to connect to them locally as well as regionally.