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2025 Best Places to Bike
PeopleForBikes' 2025 City Ratings measure the quality of biking in nearly 3,000 U.S. and international cities. By providing key lessons and best practices, local leaders, advocates, and everyday riders can take action to build more great places to ride in their communities.
Cities on the Rise
We're excited to celebrate our 2025 Cities on the Rise, all of which made impressive improvements in their City Ratings scores in recent years.
71
City RatingCorvallis, OR
64
City RatingAnchorage, AK
61
City RatingAsbury Park, NJ
57
City RatingChico, CA
50
City RatingPeachtree City, GA
43
City RatingMontrose, CO
43
City RatingEvanston, IL
41
City RatingBethesda, MD
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Support Projects in Your Backyard
PeopleForBikes' Great Bike Infrastructure Project invests in communities across the U.S. to create more safe, fun, and connected places to bike for people of all ages and abilities. From urban bike lanes to recreational trails, the Great Bike Infrastructure Project is helping build the future of biking in America — one project at a time.
New for 2025, City Ratings and the Great Bike Infrastructure Project are combined to provide a comprehensive view of the real-time work being done to expand bike networks in cities nationwide and make the critical connection between the construction of high quality bike infrastructure and improved City Ratings scores.
What Gets Measured Gets Done
We believe that tracking progress is the first step toward building better communities in towns and cities of all sizes. By measuring bike infrastructure projects, we give communities the tools to turn plans into reality.
Our National Bike Project Tracker brings transparency and momentum to the process, helping advocates, city leaders, and residents understand where progress is happening and where it's needed most. Because when we measure it, we can improve it, and, ultimately, get it done.
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Meet the U.S. Cities Creating Great Places to Ride
Cities nationwide are investing in safe and connected bike infrastructure, giving millions of people the opportunity to get out and explore their communities by bike.
America Has a New Best Large City for Biking
Brooklyn, New York, tops PeopleForBikes’ 2025 City Ratings as the best large U.S. city for biking with an impressive score of 72 thanks to dedicated investments in safe and connected places to ride.
Galena, Illinois: From Historic Charm to Bicycling Destination
Thanks to dedicated investments in safe and connected places to ride, the small Midwest town improved its PeopleForBikes City Ratings score from just 25 in 2020 to an impressive score of 55 in 2025.
Highlights From the Heartland: Communities Building a Better Future for Biking
PeopleForBikes’ 2025 City Ratings highlights the growing momentum toward more connected and mobile communities being built across the Heartland — the 20 states that make up the middle of America.
Great Rides Start at Home
Cities across the U.S. are investing in safer, more connected places to ride, giving millions of Americans the opportunity to experience the joys and benefits of biking right outside their front door.
2025’s Best Places to Bike
This year’s City Ratings features the first perfect score in program history alongside a new best large U.S. city for biking.
U.S. Sees Steady Progress Toward Improved Bicycling Nationwide
234 U.S. cities scored 50 or higher in PeopleForBikes’ 2025 City Ratings, up from just 33 cities in 2019, signaling an improvement in bikeability in cities across the country.
Building Better Communities Spotlight: Ryan Johnson + Culdesac
Ryan Johnson, founder of Culdesac, is leading a national movement to build communities where bikes, connection, and vibrant public life come first.
The Benefits of Great Places to Ride
Learn why great places to ride benefit everyone and see how your community’s network of great places to ride ranks with PeopleForBikes’ City Ratings.
PeopleForBikes City Ratings: What’s New for 2025
By including thousands of bike projects being completed across the U.S., we’re making the critical connection between the creation of safe and connected bike infrastructure and improved City Ratings scores.