Florida Bike Trails Map 2026: Where eBikes Can Ride

950 trails · 7,738 miles in 66 counties · 2,008 miles more for Class 1 than Class 3 · 697 trails open to all three classes · Rules verified October 9, 2026

Quick Answer: You can ride an e-bike on most Florida bike trails: 697 of the 950 trails on this map admit Class 1, 2 and 3. Wildlife management areas, which cover most state forests, keep Class 2 and 3 on roads, national forest trails closed to motor vehicles stay closed, and some cities cap speed. Rules verified October 9, 2026.

The Shark Valley Tram Road and observation tower in Everglades National Park, where e-bikes may ride the paved loop at up to 15 mph, in a scene generated with Playcut from National Park Service photographs of the tower and the road.

Florida law sets the default: an operator "may ride an electric bicycle where bicycles are allowed", including bicycle and multiuse paths. The same statute lets whoever runs a path or trail network restrict or ban e-bikes on it, so the trail's manager decides where you may ride. This page names the manager of every mapped trail and quotes that manager's rule, trail by trail.

If you need the rest of Florida's e-bike law, from age and helmets to every city ordinance, see Florida's e-bike laws, checked city by city. For other states, start with our guide to e-bike trails near you.

Class 1 is the class that rides the most of Florida: it is allowed on 5,826 of the 7,738 mapped miles, against 3,818 for Class 3. Of that 2,008-mile gap, 95% is state forest, wildlife management area and water-district land (every trail, its manager and its rule are in the downloadable register).

So if you ride forest and wildlife-area trails, a Class 1 takes you furthest. Every bike in our full e-bike range ships free within the contiguous US, Florida included.

Every line is a trail FDEP's Florida Greenways and Trails System or OpenStreetMap maps for bicycles, colored by the e-bike rule that governs it. The numbers in the key are the regions, each mapped below.

In this guide

• How to read the map
• Who decides on each trail
• County and city rules
• Named trails riders ask about
• Riding the Coast-to-Coast Trail on an e-bike
• Florida bike trails, region by region
• Where riders get caught out
• Sidewalks and beaches
• Choosing an e-bike for Florida trails
• The bottom line
• Frequently asked questions
• How we verified this map

How to read the map

Read the color first, then the class on your bike's label. Green means you may ride any of the three classes, blue Class 1 and 2, amber Class 1 only, dashed red that the trail is closed to your e-bike, and gray that the rule is unsettled, silent or could not be read, or that it turns on whether the path is a road.

Florida defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle or tricycle with "fully operable pedals, a seat or saddle for the use of the rider, and an electric motor of less than 750 watts," in one of three classes:

Since January 1, 2021, makers must fix a label to every e-bike showing its class number, top assisted speed and motor wattage. Check yours before you ride a trail that limits classes.

If your machine has a motor of 750 watts or more, or no working pedals, it is not an electric bicycle under that definition, and none of the green lines on this map open a trail to it.

Who decides on each trail

The agency that runs a trail decides what e-bikes may do on it. Fla. Stat. § 316.20655(1) says the e-bike law may not be read to stop "a municipality, county, or agency of the state having jurisdiction over a bicycle path, multiuse path, or trail network from restricting or prohibiting the operation of an electric bicycle" on it. Federal land follows federal rules.

On any land FWC designates as a wildlife management area, FWC's rule applies to you on top of the manager's, whoever that manager is.

Florida State Parks: open on trails built for bikes

Florida State Parks runs the state trails and the parks, and publishes one rule for all of them: "Bicycles, including electric bicycles, may be used on designated trails within the park system, consistent with section 316.20655, F.S." The same sentence appears on the Withlacoochee State Trail, Van Fleet and Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail pages.

The parks' Guidelines for Bike Use add the line between an e-bike and a motorbike: "Human powered with electric assist bikes are allowed," while "Motorized (gas or electric) bikes are not allowed." If you ride a throttle-only electric motorbike, it is the second kind.

Florida Forest Service: every class until October 20, then Class 1 on trails

State forests are the largest block of amber on the map, and their own rule is about to change. Today Rule 5I-4.006(7) says only "No person shall operate a bicycle on managed lands except on designated roads, bicycle trails or designed multi-use trails."

The chapter's definition of a motor vehicle, R. 5I-4.002(19), leaves out "bicycles, or mopeds," and Florida law gives an e-bike a bicycle's rights, so until October 20, 2026 you may ride any class where a bicycle may.

From October 20, 2026, the amended rule, filed September 30, adds: "Class 1 electric bicycles ... are permitted in the same locations as traditional bicycles. Class 2 and Class 3 electric bicycles ... are not permitted on designated trails and are only permitted on designated roads open to licensed vehicular traffic."

Most state forests are amber already, because they are also wildlife management areas, where FWC's rule keeps Class 2 and 3 to named or numbered roads: Tate's Hell, Goethe, Withlacoochee, Lake George, Point Washington and Blackwater River's trails among them.

The 7 state forest trails outside those areas (97 miles), Myakka and Lake Talquin among them, stay green until October 20, 2026; from that date, on a Class 2 or 3 you keep to their designated roads open to licensed vehicles.

In Jennings and Etoniah Creek, the areas' own rules hold bicycles, and so every class of e-bike, to roads, and to firelines too in Jennings (68A-15.062, 68A-15.065).

FWC wildlife management areas: Class 2 and 3 on roads, whoever owns the land

FWC draws one line on every wildlife management area. Rule 68A-15.004(9)(d) says "Electric bicycles may be operated only on named or numbered roads. Unless otherwise prohibited by specific area rule, Class 1 electric bicycles ... are exempt from this restriction and may be used pursuant to regulations relating to bicycles."

The rule binds on land FWC does not own. Its neighboring subsections are limited to land "where the Commission is the landowner or lead managing agency," and this one is not; Rule 68A-17.004 repeats it for wildlife and environmental areas and 68A-15.006 for public use areas. By FWC's own boundary map, 66 mapped trails (2,090 miles) lie mostly inside one of these areas on another agency's land.

They include the motorized roads and trails of the Ocala and Apalachicola national forests and Big Cypress's off-road-vehicle trails, which the Forest Service and the Park Service open to all three classes; there, on a Class 2 or 3 you keep to the named or numbered roads, and only a Class 1 rides the trails. Rock Springs Run and Cedar Key Scrub state reserves are areas too, and so is much of the water districts' land.

On a Class 1 you follow each area's own bicycle rule, and those differ: Lake George's reads "Horses and bicycles are allowed only on named or numbered roads, firelines and designated trails," and Etoniah Creek's "Vehicles and bicycles may be operated only on named or numbered roads" (68A-15.065).

On areas inside military installations, such as the Eglin Air Force Base trails, the area rules leave it to the base: "Bicycles and electric bicycles are allowed only in areas and during days specified by the Installation Commander." A state trail or roadside path that only crosses an area, such as the Withlacoochee State Trail through the Croom tract, keeps its own manager's rule on this map.

Water management districts: three of five never mention e-bikes

The five water management districts manage 89 of the mapped trails (1,291 miles, by the register), and their rules split:

• Southwest Florida WMD defines a bicycle to include "every motorized bicycle propelled by a combination of human power and an electric helper motor capable of propelling the vehicle at a speed of not more than 20 miles per hour," and bars riders under 16 from a motorized bicycle. A Class 1 or 2 stops helping at 20 mph and fits that wording, so if you are 16 or older you may ride one where the district allows bicycles; a Class 3 does not fit. That reading is ours, and the district has published no e-bike guidance.
• St. Johns River, Suwannee River and South Florida WMDs bar "motorized vehicles not licensed for Florida highway use" (St. Johns River, Suwannee River, South Florida) and never name e-bikes. Read literally, an e-bike is a vehicle partly powered by a motor; state law also gives it a bicycle's rights. Those trails are gray until a district says which reading it applies, so ask the district before you ride one.
• Where district land is also a wildlife management area, FWC's rule settles Class 2 and 3: named or numbered roads only. That makes Southwest Florida's Green Swamp, Potts Preserve, Flying Eagle Ranch, Lake Panasoffkee, Upper Hillsborough tract and Little Withlacoochee flood detention area Class 1 only, and leaves only Class 1 unsettled on 26 of the other districts' trails, Lochloosa, Three Forks and Fort Drum Marsh among them.
• Northwest Florida WMD says its lands are "open to exploration by hikers, cyclers, and equestrians" and publishes no e-bike rule. Its Perdido River and Econfina Creek lands are wildlife management areas, so on this map Class 1 only there, and FWC's Econfina rule bars "the use of bicycles and electric bicycles" on the area's Fitzhugh Carter tract.

Federal land: park by park

• National parks and seashores decide in each superintendent's compendium, and each allows e-bikes only where it allows bicycles. Everglades names five bike trails: the Shark Valley Tram Road, the L-67 Extension, Snake Bight, Rowdy Bend and the Long Pine Key trails. It caps you at 10 mph (15 mph on the tram road) and bars throttle-only riding off public roads; its boardwalks and foot trails, the Anhinga Trail and Old Ingraham Highway among them, are walk-only. Big Cypress opens its off-road-vehicle trails, Bear Island Grade, Fire Prairie Trail and Noble's Grade, and not the Florida Trail.
• More national parks. Canaveral allows Class 1 only, Biscayne Class 1 and 2 on Elliott Key's trail and none on Convoy Point's jetty and boardwalk, and Gulf Islands its roads and five named routes, including the Florida Trail's 2 miles from Battery Langdon to Fort Pickens.
• National forests (Apalachicola, Ocala, Osceola) treat an e-bike as a motor vehicle. The Forest Service says "Class 1, 2, and 3 e-bikes are allowed on motorized trails and roads," so the forests' non-motorized trails are closed to you whatever class you ride. Most of the Apalachicola and Ocala forests, and Big Cypress, are also wildlife management areas, where FWC's rule lets Class 2 and 3 use only named or numbered roads, so on this map their motorized trails are Class 1 only. The rules for every federal land type are in our guide to e-bikes in national forests and other public land.
• National wildlife refuges allow e-bikes on refuge roads and trails open to bicycles "if the refuge manager determines the use of e-bikes to be a compatible use". Loxahatchee has made that call: "E-bikes are permitted on any refuge road or trail where traditional bicycle use is allowed."
• The Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail on the dike is the Army Corps of Engineers'. The Corps lists "walking, hiking, rollerblading, bicycling and horseback riding" and publishes no e-bike rule.

How these rules are enforced, and what a wrong turn costs you. Rangers and law enforcement apply each manager's rule, and what you pay depends on whose land you were on:

• State parks. Breaking a park rule is a noncriminal infraction for which the parks division can impose a fine of up to $500 and eject you from all the property it manages (§ 258.008(1)).
• Wildlife management areas. FWC's e-bike limit is part of its rule on vehicles in those areas, so riding a Class 2 or 3 off the named or numbered roads is a Level One violation: you are cited to county court, and the civil penalty is $50, or $250 if you committed the same violation within the previous 36 months (§ 379.401(1)).
• National forests and national parks. Riding a forest route its motor vehicle use map does not open (36 CFR 261.13), or a park route its superintendent has not opened to e-bikes, is a federal Class B misdemeanor: up to six months in jail, a fine of up to $5,000, or both (36 CFR 261.1b, 36 CFR 1.3(a), 18 U.S.C. 1865(a), 3559(a)(7), 3571(b)(6)).
• Bike paths and sidewalks. If your machine is not an e-bike under Florida's definition, such as one with a motor of 750 watts or more, riding it on a bike path or sidewalk is a noncriminal moving violation (§ 316.1995(2)) with a $60 penalty (§ 318.18(3)(a)).

What is changing. Florida's e-bike section dates from 2020 and was amended in 2021 and 2025. The Legislature's 2026 rewrite, CS/SB 382, was vetoed on June 25, 2026, so the statute stands; the changes since have come from counties, cities and the Forest Service, whose amended rule takes effect October 20, 2026.

County and city rules

Most Florida counties and cities say nothing about e-bikes on trails, and then the state default applies. The codes of 145 counties and cities that manage trails on this map were read in full on October 8, 2026. 485 trails sit with a county or city whose code has no e-bike rule that reaches them, so you may ride an e-bike there wherever a bicycle may go.

These are the local rules that do reach a trail, each linked to its section of the code:

A rule that applies to "park property" does not reach a roadside path the same government runs, so 96 of those trails are corridors (each flagged in the register) that keep the state default even where the same county's or city's park rule is strict. If a path you ride runs through a park, the park rule applies on that stretch.

Named trails riders ask about

The trails you are most likely to ask about are nearly all open to e-bikes. The exceptions are the West Orange Trail inside Winter Garden (no Class 3), Miami Beach's Beachwalk (closed), the Hollywood Broadwalk (its code and state law disagree), and the speed caps on the Pinellas Trail, The Legacy Trail, The Underline, the Everglades routes and Orange County's paths.

• Pinellas Trail. Pinellas County's trail guide lists e-bikes among the exceptions to its motor-vehicle ban: "Motorized vehicles (except EPAMD, electric bikes, electric wheelchairs, maintenance, law enforcement and emergency vehicles) are prohibited." The Sheriff's Office says "On the Trail, that limit is 20 mph."
• The Legacy Trail. Sarasota County's trail rules read "Speed limit 15 mph" and "E-bikes allowed. (Functional pedals required.)" The trail is open 6 a.m. to sunset.
• West Orange Trail and Orange County's paved trails. Orange County's Ordinance 2026-19, adopted September 29, 2026, repealed the county's 2021 ban on Class 3 and lets every class ride County shared-use paths at no more than 10 mph unless signs say otherwise. Inside Winter Garden the city's code governs: "Class 3 E-Bikes are prohibited from the paved path designated as part of the West Orange Trail", and there you must be 15 or older and carry photo ID.
• The Underline. Its FAQ calls the path a "slow zone" and sets the "Maximum allowable speed" at 10 mph.
• Shark Valley and the Everglades. You may ride the designated routes, including the Shark Valley Tram Road, but not on the motor alone off public roads.
• Timpoochee Trail on County Road 30A. Walton County's code, codified through Ordinance 2026-04 of March 24, 2026, has no e-bike rule, so the state default lets you ride it.
• Santos and the Cross Florida Greenway. Florida State Parks sends Cross Florida Greenway mountain bikers "to start, visit the Santos Trailhead," and the same page carries the parks' e-bike sentence, so you may ride its designated trails on any class.

Riding the Coast-to-Coast Trail on an e-bike

The Coast-to-Coast Trail is open to e-bikes almost end to end; two short stretches turn on your class, a third will on October 20, 2026, and the Pinellas Trail (20 mph) and Orange County's paths (10 mph) cap speed. FDEP describes it as a paved trail that "will span approximately 250 miles and is currently 88 percent complete," linking St. Petersburg and Titusville. VISIT FLORIDA lists 17 trails along it, and each has its own manager:

Two stretches turn on your class today. Inside Winter Garden, the city's code bars Class 3 from the West Orange Trail; the rest of that trail and the Pine Hills Trail are Orange County's, which opened its trails and paths to all three classes on September 29, 2026, with a 10 mph limit on shared-use paths.

Clermont's park code counts a bike whose electric helper motor tops out at 20 mph as a bicycle, and bars only motorized scooters and app-rented micro-mobility devices. On our reading, on a Class 1 or 2 you ride the city's short piece of the South Lake Trail as a bicycle; a Class 3 fits none of its definitions, so the map shows that piece gray.

The Good Neighbor Trail is filed by FDEP under the Florida Forest Service, whose rule lets every class ride where a bicycle may until October 20, 2026 and Class 1 only on its trails after that; its Brooksville end is the city's. From October 20, 2026, ride a Class 1 through it if you can, or check the signs at each end.

Florida bike trails, region by region

The regions are VISIT FLORIDA's eight, as FDEP's state-park layer draws them. Each table lists the region's longest trails, and the list under it names every trail in the region, sorted by which classes you may ride there.

North West: Pensacola to Apalachicola

84 trails, 652 miles, in Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Liberty, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, Washington counties. State forests carry the largest share of the Panhandle's trail miles, and most of them are also wildlife management areas, where only a Class 1 lets you ride the trails: 224 miles here are Class 1 only.

Blackwater River State Forest's motor-vehicle routes lie outside the wildlife management area, so you may ride them on any class where a bicycle may until the Forest Service's rule changes on October 20, 2026. Franklin County closes "any designated bike path or nature trail" on county land to powered vehicles, including the St. George Island path.

Port St. Joe's code bars "motorized vehicles," defined as any vehicle "powered by a motor of any kind, whether gas or electric," from the path that runs from Cecil G. Costin Sr. Boulevard to the Centennial Building, the high school and the college. The Port City Trail follows that route, so it is closed to every class, as are the city's bay view path and the paths in Frank Pate Park.

North Central: Tallahassee to the Nature Coast

125 trails, 1,153 miles, in Alachua, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie, Gadsden, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Levy, Liberty, Madison, Putnam, Suwannee, Taylor, Union, Wakulla counties. The state trails out of Tallahassee, Gainesville and Palatka are open to you on all three classes. The Apalachicola National Forest is also a wildlife management area, so on its roads and motorized trails Class 2 and 3 keep to named or numbered roads, and its non-motorized trails are closed to every class.

Gainesville's park code keeps any "motorized vehicle, as defined in F.S. Ch. 316" to park roads, driveways and parking areas, but the chapter's definitions section has no such term. It leaves electric bicycles out of "motor vehicle," yet calls every micromobility device, pedal bicycles and e-bikes included, "a motorized transportation device."

Until the city says which it means, the trails in its listed nature parks and conservation areas are gray. Its rail-trails and street-side paths, such as the Depot Avenue and Archer Braid trails, are not park grounds and follow the state default.

North East: Jacksonville to St. Augustine

60 trails, 332 miles, in Alachua, Clay, Duval, Marion, Nassau, Putnam, St. Johns counties. Jacksonville's park rule lets e-bikes use bike paths and trails "which have not been closed to such traffic by the Director."

The city's Ordinance 2026-570-E, enacted September 22, 2026, sets 15 mph on sidewalks and shared-use paths from the day it takes effect: on the mayor's signature, or without it if the mayor does not veto it by the council's next regular meeting at least 10 days after it reaches the mayor's office (Charter § 6.05).

The city's legislative record listed no effective date on October 9, 2026. Until it takes effect, keeping to 15 mph on Jacksonville's sidewalks and shared-use paths keeps you inside the rule either way.

Clay County's park code keeps any "motorized vehicle" to park driveways, parking areas and stretches a posted sign opens, and it defines the other kind as a vehicle "lacking a combustion engine or electric motor for motive power." An e-bike has an electric motor, so on our reading the trails at Ronnie Van Zant Park, Camp Chowenwaw Park and Moccasin Slough are closed to you on any class.

Action News Jax reported on March 13, 2026 that the county was posting signs saying e-bikes are not allowed on park grounds. Its roadside paths, such as the Doctors Lake Drive and SR 21 paths, are not park land and keep the state default.

Central West: Tampa Bay and the Nature Coast

135 trails, 632 miles, in Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Lake, Levy, Pasco, Pinellas, Sumter counties. 102 of the map's 155 blue miles are here, on Southwest Florida WMD land at the Lower Hillsborough and Starkey wilderness preserves, where you may ride a Class 1 or 2 under the district's rule and not a Class 3. The district's Green Swamp is also a wildlife management area, so FWC's rule makes it Class 1 only.

Hillsborough County's parks allow "Class I (pedal-assist) e-bikes in County parks. Class II and Class III e-bikes are prohibited," and Tampa caps e-bikes at 15 mph on its parks' multi-purpose trails.

Central: Ocala, Orlando and the Kissimmee chain

177 trails, 1,714 miles, in Citrus, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands, Lake, Levy, Marion, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Polk, Putnam, Seminole, Sumter, Volusia counties. The red here is the Ocala National Forest's non-motorized trails, closed to every class. Its roads and motorized trails lie in the Ocala Wildlife Management Area, where on a Class 2 or 3 you keep to named or numbered roads, so the map shows them amber.

Orange County opened its trails and paths to all three classes on September 29, 2026, except where a city keeps its own rules, and Winter Garden bars Class 3 from its stretch of the West Orange Trail. Clermont's park code bars motorized scooters and app-rented micro-mobility devices and does not settle Class 3, so its trails are gray.

St. Cloud's code bars Class 2 and 3 from every path and trail the city maintains, its lakefront path among them.

In DeBary, the golf-cart article makes golf carts "the only motorized vehicles that may travel on designated municipal sidewalks and trails," and the path beside West Highbanks Road is one of them, so that stretch of the Rob Sullivan Pathway is gray.

Central East: Daytona to the Treasure Coast

161 trails, 1,338 miles, in Brevard, Flagler, Highlands, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Osceola, Palm Beach, St. Lucie, Volusia counties. Volusia and Brevard counties' codes carry no trail e-bike rule, so the East Central Regional Rail Trail and the coastal paths are open to all three classes under state law. Palm Coast requires you to be 11 or older and to "carry a government-issued photographic identification." Most of the gray is St. Johns River WMD conservation land.

Deltona's 2026 ordinance caps e-bikes at 15 mph on sidewalks and, on paths away from roads, requires you to yield to walkers and sound a warning before passing. Its ban on riders under 18 is on the books but not enforced, after a Commission vote on August 24, 2026.

Flagler County's park code keeps any "motorized vehicle" to park roads and parking areas without naming e-bikes, so Princess Place Preserve and the Lehigh Greenway are gray. The county's roadside bike paths keep the state default.

South West: Sarasota to Naples

118 trails, 1,169 miles, in Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hendry, Lee, Manatee, Monroe, Palm Beach, Sarasota counties. Charlotte County's 2026 ordinance allows e-bikes on multi-use paths at up to 15 mph but keeps them off "trails, greenways, and greenbelts ... unless otherwise posted," and the Cape Haze Pioneer Trail fits both descriptions, so check its signs. Sanibel allows only Class 1 on its shared-use paths, and only if you are 16 or older.

Big Cypress's off-road-vehicle trails are amber: the Park Service opens them to e-bikes, and the preserve is also a wildlife management area, where FWC's rule keeps Class 2 and 3 to named or numbered roads.

South East: Palm Beach to Key West

90 trails, 747 miles, in Broward, Collier, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Palm Beach counties. The Overseas Heritage Trail is a state park trail and open to all three classes.

Miami Beach closes its Beachwalk to "any motorized means of transportation," Doral requires you to register your e-bike with the city's police and display a city decal, and the city of West Palm Beach's natural-areas code closes Grassy Waters Preserve's trails to e-bikes, while the Town of Palm Beach closes the Lake Trail.

Wellington holds e-bikes to 15 mph on its sidewalks and roadside paths and bars them from its public bridle trails, and the village says you must be at least 15 and carry a government-issued photo ID.

Pinecrest's 2026 ordinance sets 15 mph on the village's shared-use paths but exempts the paths along four county roads, Red Road and Old Cutler Road among them, so it does not reach the Red Road or Old Cutler trails on this map.

Inside the Village of Key Biscayne the Rickenbacker corridor follows the sidewalk path along Crandon Boulevard, a county road, and the map shows that stretch gray. Miami-Dade's § 2-98.3, re-created on July 21, 2026, keeps e-bikes off that sidewalk and in the bike lane at up to 20 mph once the village signs an agreement with the county. News reports say the agreement was renewed to 2028; its text could not be found.

On a Class 1, your safe choice there is Crandon's bike lane, not the path. The 2024 agreement also let the village bar Class 2 and 3 from the boulevard altogether, and the village's own code bars e-bikes from every other village street, sidewalk and path.

Where riders get caught out

You get caught out where a trail crosses into land with a stricter rule, such as a wildlife management area, a national forest or park, a park under a local ban or a beachfront promenade, or where a city adds an age or ID rule.

• Wildlife management areas and state forests. On a Class 2 or Class 3 that is legal on the Suncoast Trail, you must stay on named or numbered roads once you enter a wildlife management area, including those in the Ocala and Apalachicola national forests and Big Cypress (68A-15.004(9)(d)), and from October 20, 2026 on the roads open to licensed traffic in any state forest (5I-4.006(7) as amended).
• National forest singletrack. Every class is closed on the Apalachicola, Ocala and Osceola national forests' non-motorized trails; the motor vehicle use maps show you the open roads and trails.
• National park foot trails. Everglades' boardwalks and foot trails, Big Cypress's stretch of the Florida Trail and every Gulf Islands trail off its five named routes are closed to bicycles and e-bikes, though some map data marks them open to bicycles (Everglades, Big Cypress, Gulf Islands).
• "No motorized vehicles" in a park. Miami-Dade County, Flagler County, Gainesville, Gulfport, Dunedin, Oldsmar, Hawthorne, Pensacola, Port St. Lucie, Boca Raton, Fort Walton Beach, Cutler Bay, Miami Gardens and Palmetto Bay bar a "motorized vehicle" from their parks without naming e-bikes. State law gives an e-bike a bicycle's rights, and their codes do not say which reading applies, so those park trails are gray.
• Clay County's parks. Clay County's code counts a vehicle with an electric motor as motorized and keeps motorized vehicles to park driveways and parking areas, so you may not ride an e-bike on its park trails unless a posted sign opens one.
• Beachfront promenades. Miami Beach Code § 70-67(d) closes the Beachwalk, the Baywalk, the Lummus Park Promenade and South Pointe Park's paths to "any motorized means of transportation." Hollywood allows bicycling on the Broadwalk's bike path but bars any device "not operated exclusively by human power ... except if expressly permitted by law," and state law permits e-bikes where bicycles go. Until the city says which governs, walk your e-bike there.
• Registration and ID. Florida does not register e-bikes, but Doral requires a city decal, and Palm Coast, Winter Garden and Wellington require you to carry a photo ID.
• Minimum ages. Palm Coast sets 11, St. Augustine Beach 12, and Winter Garden and Wellington 15. Deltona's ban on riders under 18 is not enforced. West Palm Beach's 16-and-older rule applies to "micromobility devices," which its code defines as devices a business provides, so it does not reach a bike you own. State law lets any county or city set a minimum age or require ID.
• Charlotte County's trails. The county's 2026 ordinance closes "trails, greenways, and greenbelts" to bicycles and e-bikes unless the county posts them open, while on its multi-use paths you may ride at up to 15 mph.
• Palm Beach's Lake Trail and Grassy Waters Preserve. The Town of Palm Beach bars "any motor-driven or animal-drawn vehicle, to include micromobility devices" from the Lake Trail. West Palm Beach's natural-areas code counts a motor-assisted bicycle as a vehicle and keeps vehicles to the preserve's access roads, so Grassy Waters' trails are closed too, though map data marks them open to bicycles.
• Parks and promenades in beach towns. Fernandina Beach allows e-bikes on the Egans Creek Greenway and its multi-use paths at 10 mph but bars them from its listed city parks unless signs allow them. St. Augustine Beach keeps designated pedestrian-only pathways, promenades, seawalls and boardwalks for walkers and pedal bikes.

Sidewalks and beaches

Sidewalks: A bicycle may use a Florida sidewalk if the rider "shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian and shall give an audible signal before overtaking", and you may ride an e-bike where bicycles are allowed. Counties and cities may regulate e-bikes on sidewalks, and an ordinance that does so "must restrict such vehicles or devices to a maximum speed of 15 miles per hour".

Some cities bar them outright, for example Miami Beach on its city sidewalks, Coral Gables on all its public sidewalks and the Town of Palm Beach on every town sidewalk; Fernandina Beach allows only pedal power on its sidewalks. West Palm Beach is unsettled: its rule that "bicycles shall not be operated on public sidewalks" opens with "All persons operating," but sits in an article that says it applies to commercial rental fleets and their customers.

Panama City Beach's Ordinance No. 1686, adopted September 24, 2026, bars every class from sidewalks in the Pier Park Overlay District and Class 3 from all sidewalks, keeps Class 2 off the sidewalks beside Front Beach Road and Class 1 too where a bike lane of 6 feet or more runs alongside, and caps sidewalk speed at 10 mph. Gayle's Trails are trails, not sidewalks, and stay as the map shows them.

Beaches: No state law opens or closes Florida's beaches to e-bikes. The statute leaves it to "a municipality, county, or agency of the state having jurisdiction over a beach" to restrict or prohibit them (§ 316.20655(1)), so the beach's own city or county decides; check its rule before you ride onto the sand.

Choosing an e-bike for Florida trails

If the trails you ride include state forests or wildlife areas, a Class 1 bike opens the most miles. On this map Class 1 may ride 5,826 miles, Class 2 3,973 and Class 3 3,818. If you ride paved rail-trails and city paths, every class is welcome on 86% of the paved miles, and the speed caps (10 to 20 mph) matter more than the class.

The surface decides the tire. 2,005 of the mapped miles are paved and 3,672 are dirt, sand, shell or gravel, from state park singletrack to forest and levee roads; 812 mix the two, and 1,244 have no surface on record. The downloadable register gives each trail's surface. For sand and shell roads look at fat-tire e-bikes, for paved paths commuter e-bikes, and for state park singletrack electric mountain bikes.

The class is the one on your bike's label, so buy the class for the trails you mean to ride. Keep the motor under 750 watts, since a bigger motor stops the machine being an e-bike under Florida law and none of these trails opens to it.

Why buy your trail e-bike from us

• Free shipping to Florida. Every e-bike we sell ships free within the contiguous United States, and most arrive within 5 to 10 business days after dispatch (shipping policy).
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When you're ready, shop every e-bike we sell, or open the guide above for the trails you ride.

The bottom line

Florida opens far more trail to e-bikes than it closes. The map counts 697 trails open to all three classes, 8 open to Class 1 and 2, 71 to Class 1 only and 22 closed to e-bikes, each listed with its rule in the register.

The state parks' bike trails and most paved rail-trails and shared-use paths are open to all three classes, often with a speed cap, so before you ride somewhere new, check the trail's color here, then the label on your bike.

The places to watch are the wildlife management areas, which cover most state forests, the Ocala and Apalachicola national forests and Big Cypress (Class 1 on trails), the national forests' non-motorized trails and the national parks' foot trails (closed), Palm Beach's Lake Trail and Grassy Waters Preserve (closed), Winter Garden's stretch of the West Orange Trail (no Class 3), and a few counties and cities with their own rules.

Frequently asked questions

Are e-bikes allowed on Florida bike trails?

Yes, on most of them. Florida law lets you ride an e-bike where bicycles are allowed, including bicycle and multiuse paths, and 697 of the 950 trails on this map are open to all three classes. The manager of a trail can restrict e-bikes on it, which is why your answer differs in state forests, wildlife areas and some cities.

Are e-bikes allowed in Florida state parks?

Yes, almost everywhere. Florida State Parks says "Bicycles, including electric bicycles, may be used on designated trails within the park system," with no class limit. The exceptions are Rock Springs Run and Cedar Key Scrub state reserves, which are also wildlife management areas, where FWC's rule keeps you on named or numbered roads if you ride a Class 2 or 3.

Can you ride an e-bike on the sidewalk in Florida?

Yes, unless your city or county says otherwise. State law lets an e-bike go where a bicycle may, and a bicycle on a sidewalk must yield to pedestrians and give an audible signal before passing. A local sidewalk ordinance must cap e-bikes at 15 mph, and some cities, including Miami Beach, Coral Gables and the Town of Palm Beach, ban them from sidewalks.

Do you need to register an e-bike in Florida?

Not with the state: Florida exempts e-bikes from vehicle registration, licensing and insurance rules. If you ride in Doral, you do: its code says every micromobility device "shall be registered with the city's police department" and display a city decal.

Can Florida cities or counties set their own e-bike rules?

Yes. State law lets a Florida county, city or state agency restrict or ban e-bikes on the paths and trails it controls, regulate them on its sidewalks at up to 15 mph, set minimum ages and require photo ID. Many do, from Orange County's 10 mph limit on its shared-use paths to Miami Beach's closed Beachwalk, so check your city's and county's rules before you ride.

Can I ride an e-bike on the Pinellas Trail?

Yes, any class. Pinellas County lists electric bikes among the exceptions to the trail's motor-vehicle ban, and the Sheriff's Office says the trail's speed limit is 20 mph. Dunedin's code also lets e-bikes use "the county trail," its sidewalks and its roadways.

Are e-bikes allowed on the Legacy Trail?

Yes. Sarasota County's rules for The Legacy Trail say "E-bikes allowed. (Functional pedals required.)" with a 15 mph speed limit, and the trail is open from 6 a.m. to sunset.

Can I ride an e-bike in Orlando?

Yes. The City of Orlando's code has no rule that limits e-bikes on its trails, so you may ride the Cady Way and Orlando Urban trails under state law. Orange County's trails, including the West Orange and Little Econ trails, admit all three classes under the county's September 2026 ordinance, at 10 mph on shared-use paths; inside Winter Garden, Class 3 stays off the West Orange Trail.

Are e-bikes allowed in Florida state forests?

Yes, but the rule changes on October 20, 2026. Until October 20, 2026 the Forest Service's rule in force lets you ride any class on the roads, bicycle trails and multi-use trails a bicycle may use; from that date the amended rule keeps Class 2 and 3 to roads open to licensed traffic. Most state forests are also wildlife management areas, where FWC's rule already keeps Class 2 and 3 to named or numbered roads.

Can you ride an e-bike in the Ocala National Forest?

On a Class 1, yes, you may ride the forest's roads and its trails open to motor vehicles. The Forest Service opens those routes to all three classes, but they lie in the Ocala Wildlife Management Area, where FWC's rule lets Class 2 and 3 use only named or numbered roads. The forest's non-motorized trails are closed to every class.

Which e-bike classes may ride Florida wildlife management areas?

On a Class 1 you may ride wherever the area's own rule lets bicycles go; on a Class 2 or 3, only named or numbered roads. FWC's rule says so for every wildlife management area, including those on national forest, water-district and state-reserve land. The bicycle rules differ by area: most allow designated trails, while Etoniah Creek and Jennings Forest hold bicycles to roads.

Can you ride an e-bike at Santos?

Yes. Florida State Parks sends Cross Florida Greenway mountain bikers to the Santos Trailhead, and its rule lets you ride an electric bicycle on the trails designated for bicycles.

What national parks in Florida allow e-bikes on trails?

Everglades allows e-bikes on its five bike trails, including the Shark Valley Tram Road and the Long Pine Key trails, and Big Cypress National Preserve on its off-road-vehicle trails, Bear Island Grade, Fire Prairie Trail and Noble's Grade, where FWC's wildlife-management-area rule keeps Class 2 and 3 to named or numbered roads. In both, and in Gulf Islands, the boardwalks and foot trails are closed to bicycles and e-bikes alike.

Biscayne allows Class 1 and 2 on Elliott Key's trail, Canaveral Class 1 only, Timucuan the Willie Browne Trail and Cedar Point's unpaved roads, and Gulf Islands its roads and five named routes.

Can you ride an e-bike on the beach in Florida?

Only where the beach's city or county allows you to. State law leaves beaches and dunes to the government with jurisdiction over them, and the rules differ from town to town. Miami Beach, for example, bars every motorized device from its Beachwalk.

Is the Florida Coast-to-Coast Trail open to e-bikes?

Almost all of it. Most of its 17 component trails are open to all three classes; on a Class 3 you must leave the West Orange Trail inside Winter Garden, Clermont's short piece of the South Lake Trail is unsettled for Class 3, and from October 20, 2026 only Class 1 may ride the Good Neighbor Trail's Forest Service stretch.

Did Florida change its e-bike law in 2026?

No. The Legislature passed CS/SB 382, a statewide e-bike safety bill, and the Governor vetoed it on June 25, 2026, so the state law is unchanged.

The Florida Forest Service has amended its own rule, effective October 20, 2026, to keep Class 2 and 3 off state forest trails, and cities and counties have kept adding their own rules, among them Winter Garden and Davie early in 2026, Pinecrest in May, Deltona and Fernandina Beach in July, Wellington in August, and St. Augustine Beach, Orange County and Jacksonville in September.

How we verified this map

The map is a register of 950 trails built from two independent sources, with each trail's manager and that manager's published rule. Rules were read October 8 and 9, 2026, and every line on the map can be traced to a row in the downloadable register.

• Trails. Every bike-open line in FDEP's Florida Greenways and Trails System Existing Trails layer (772 trails), checked against OpenStreetMap, which added 178 named bike paths FDEP does not carry or lists only for hiking (398 miles).
• Miles counted once. Two lines that run the same way within 10 m of each other are one path, so a path drawn twice, by two records or by two trails that share it, counts once: 84 of the 7,822 miles of drawn line were the same ground.
• Managers. FDEP's managing agency, checked against the Florida Natural Areas Inventory's conservation-lands layer; where neither names one, the city or county the trail sits in (323 trails, marked in the register). A trail that runs across two named managers' land, such as Big Shoals, is split where the land changes hands.
• FWC areas. FWC's own wildlife management area boundaries (284 polygons) place each trail inside or outside a wildlife management area, wildlife and environmental area or public use area, and each area's bicycle rule was read from its paragraph in Fla. Admin. Code chapters 68A-15 and 68A-17.
• Rules. The statute, the agencies' rules and compendiums, and the codes of 145 counties and cities read in full, each quoted from the text and linked above. A code online is only as current as its last update, so each county's and city's adopted-but-uncodified ordinances were read too, from Municode's list and the government's own meeting records; that is how this map carries Orange County's, St. Augustine Beach's, Fernandina Beach's, Davie's, Niceville's, DeLand's, Wellington's and Deltona's 2026 rules. Each code was also searched section by section for park, trail and path bans on "motorized vehicles" and the definitions behind them.
• Map. Drawn with Playcut Brush from the register on U.S. Census Bureau 1:500,000 boundaries.

If a rule on this map has changed, email the trail's name and the new rule's source to support@redtailebikes.com, and the register row is re-read against it.

Written by Milad Ghobadibeygvand, BScN (Western University, 2014), Redtail eBikes. Trail rules verified October 9, 2026; penalties read October 10, 2026.

Limitations

1. Managers inferred from location. For 323 trails no source names the manager, so the city or county the trail sits in is shown. If a path belongs to another agency, that agency's rule applies instead.
2. Posted signs. Several rules let a manager post a trail open or closed (Orange County, Charlotte County, Jacksonville's parks director). A sign at the trailhead is the rule on the ground and overrides this map.
3. Gray is not a "no". 119 trails are unsettled and 15 have a manager that publishes no e-bike rule; 18 have a rule that could not be read (codes not published online, or private owners such as homeowners' associations).
4. "Our reading" rows. The Southwest Florida WMD's Class 1 and 2 status, the gray status of the "motorized vehicle" park bans, and the closure of Clay County's park trails and Port St. Joe's Port City Trail are our reading of rules that never name e-bikes; the register marks each one. So is FWC's rule reaching wildlife management areas on national forest and national preserve land: its text covers "any wildlife management area," and FWC's area rules for those forests regulate vehicles there.
5. Pending rules. Jacksonville's Ordinance 2026-570-E was enacted on September 22, 2026 and showed no effective date in the city's legislative record on October 9, 2026. Walton County's published code is codified through Ordinance 2026-04 of March 24, 2026, so an ordinance adopted after that date would not yet appear in it.
6. New rules not yet readable. Winter Park adopted rules on September 23, 2026 that require riders under 16 to complete a city course; their text was not yet published. Daytona Beach's e-bike ordinance passed a first reading in July 2026, and Palmetto Bay's draft, which would cap e-bikes at 15 mph on the village's shared-use paths, was on its July 20, 2026 agenda; neither final vote could be confirmed. For 37 codes Municode publishes no list of uncodified ordinances, so their newest rules were checked through news coverage, which can miss one. Where it does publish one, the list can lag: it showed nothing for Wellington or Deltona, whose 2026 ordinances are on this map from their councils' own records.
7. Miles are mapped line lengths, counted once. A trail's miles are the length of its mapped lines with any stretch drawn twice counted once, and the totals count ground two trails share once. The test treats lines within 10 m of each other, running the same way, as one path; at 5 m it would count 56 miles as drawn twice and at 20 m 140, against 84 at 10 m. A trail mapped with parallel paths or spurs can still measure longer than its signed length.
8. One boundary track has two answers. About 0.8 miles of track on the line between Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park, which allows every class, and the Everglades Headwaters refuge, which publishes no e-bike rule, are drawn in both and colored for each; ask the park before riding it.
9. Promenades. Two beachfront promenades are mapped (Miami Beach and Hollywood); other cities' beachfront walks are not.
10. One park route is not drawn. Everglades' L-67 Extension, one of its five bike trails, is not mapped under that name by FDEP or OpenStreetMap, so it has no line here.
11. FWC areas. FWC's rule is applied to a trail when at least half its length lies in an area. 25 trails lie less than half inside one, such as the Withlacoochee State Trail through Croom, and 3 county trails mostly inside one (the County Road 395 and 283 paths and Lake Munson Preserve's trail) are not the area's own; all keep their own manager's rule here. The map cannot tell a named or numbered road from a trail inside a forest or wildlife area, so such lines show their trail rule, and one area's rule (the Stormwater Treatment Area 5/6 hunting area) was not found in FWC's chapters.
12. When this map ages. Its rules were read on October 8 and 9, 2026. It goes out of date on October 20, 2026, when the Forest Service's amended rule takes effect; when Jacksonville's ordinance takes effect; when the Legislature passes a new e-bike law; or when any county, city or agency on the map changes its rule; each row of the register names the rule it was read from, so a changed rule can be re-checked trail by trail.

Image credit: the cover scene of the Shark Valley Tram Road and observation tower was generated with Nano Banana Pro on Playcut (playcut.ai) from National Park Service photographs of the tower and the road; its type was set in-house. The nine maps were drawn with Playcut Brush from the trail register.

Source register

No rule shown on the map rests on a news report, a law-firm page or a retailer; news coverage was read as a lead to each government's own record, and the few reports cited here (Winter Park's and Daytona Beach's pending rules, the renewal of the Key Biscayne agreement, Clay County's signs) are named as reports.

18 trails (41 miles) stay gray because their manager's rule could not be read. Madison, Hardee and St. Johns counties have no code of ordinances on Municode (Hardee's Land Development Code is there); Calhoun County and St. Lucie Village post their ordinances one by one rather than as a code, and the City of Jasper posts none we could find.

The rest belong to private owners and the Lake County Water Authority, none of which publishes an e-bike rule we could find. Punta Gorda's code is not on Municode either; its chapters on parks, streets and sidewalks, traffic and offenses were read from the city's own files as archived in May 2026.

References

Every source this map rests on, numbered, with the date each was read.

1. Florida Legislature, The 2026 Florida Statutes, § 316.20655, Electric bicycle regulations, subsections (1), (2), (3), (7) and (8); read October 8, 2026.
2. Florida Legislature, The 2026 Florida Statutes, § 316.003(23), "Electric bicycle"; read October 8, 2026.
3. Florida Legislature, The 2026 Florida Statutes, § 316.008(7)(a), sidewalk ordinances; § 316.1995; § 316.2065(10); read October 8, 2026.
4. Florida Senate, CS/SB 382 (2026), Electric Bicycles, bill history: "6/25/2026 - Vetoed by Governor"; read October 8, 2026.
5. Florida State Parks, "Biking at the Cross Florida Greenway" and Guidelines for Bike Use; read October 8, 2026.
6. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Florida Forest Service, Fla. Admin. Code R. 5I-4.006(7) and R. 5I-4.002(19), in force from August 28, 2016, and R. 5I-4.006(7) as amended, filed September 30, 2026, effective October 20, 2026; read October 8, 2026.
7. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fla. Admin. Code R. 68A-15.004(9)(d), R. 68A-17.004, R. 68A-15.006, R. 68A-15.062, R. 68A-15.063 and R. 68A-15.065; FWC, Wildlife Management Areas Florida boundary layer; read October 8, 2026.
8. Water management districts: Fla. Admin. Code ch. 40D-9, ch. 40C-9, ch. 40B-9, ch. 40E-7; Northwest Florida WMD, "Using District Lands"; read October 8, 2026.
9. National Park Service, superintendents' compendiums: Everglades, Big Cypress, Canaveral, Biscayne, Gulf Islands, Timucuan; Everglades National Park, "Biking" and "Long Pine Key Trails"; read October 8, 2026.
10. USDA Forest Service, "Electric Bicycle Use"; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, "E-bikes on refuges" and Loxahatchee biking; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, "Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail"; read October 8, 2026.
11. County and city codes, Municode Library and American Legal Publishing: every section is linked in the county and city table above; read in full October 8, 2026.
12. Pinellas County, "Pinellas Trail Guide"; Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, "E-Bikes on the Pinellas Trail", March 25, 2026.
13. Sarasota County Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources, The Legacy Trail brochure; The Underline, "Frequently Asked Questions"; The Villages District Counsel, "Multi-Modal Transportation Paths" memo, December 8, 2025.
14. City of Jacksonville, Ordinance 2026-570-E, enacted September 22, 2026, and Charter § 6.05; legislative record read October 9, 2026.
15. FDEP Office of Greenways and Trails, "Florida Coast-to-Coast Trail"; VISIT FLORIDA, "Florida Coast to Coast Trail"; read October 8, 2026.
16. Trail lines and boundaries: FDEP, Florida Greenways and Trails System, Existing Trails layer (2026); OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Florida Conservation Lands; U.S. Census Bureau, TIGERweb and 1:500,000 cartographic boundaries; all retrieved October 8, 2026.
17. City of Panama City Beach, Ordinance No. 1686, creating Code § 22-6, adopted September 24, 2026; read October 9, 2026.
18. What a broken rule costs: Florida Legislature, The 2026 Florida Statutes, § 258.008(1), § 379.401(1) and § 318.18(3)(a); Office of the Federal Register, eCFR, 36 CFR 261.1b, 36 CFR 261.13 and 36 CFR 1.3(a), current through October 7, 2026; United States Code, 2024 edition, 18 U.S.C. 1865(a), 3559(a)(7) and 3571(b)(6); read October 10, 2026.