RailTrails for cycling

This is a visualization of cycleways on abandoned railway lines.

Legend

A railtrail

A railtrail with rougher surface

A section of a railtrail route that seems to deviate from the original railway line

Updates

The map is not rendered from live data. It is planned to be updated occasionally, but no guarantees are made.

Showing data as of: 2025-04-14

Criteria

A way is considered a rail trail when:

• railtrail=yes
• or it is part of a relation with railtrail=yes and route=bicycle
• or cycleway:type=railtrail
• or
  • railway=abandoned
  • and one or more of
    • highway=cycleway
    • highway=path and bicycle=designated
    • highway=track and (bicycle=yes or tracktype in(grade1, grade2))
    • on a relation with route=bicyle

The detailed criteria can be found in the import filters and rendering query

Source Code

Available on GitHub