Philadelphia Bike Trails Map 2026: Where eBikes Ride

216.7 miles of trail and path · 154 named trails · 192.1 miles open to a Class 1 e-bike · 56 passages quoted from the bodies that wrote them · Rules verified November 2, 2026

Verified: every rule on this map is quoted from the managing body's own text: the Pennsylvania General Assembly; the City of Philadelphia's Department of Parks and Recreation; the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; the National Park Service; the Delaware River Port Authority; and the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation. The rules were read November 2, 2026, by Milad Ghobadibeygvand, BScN; the method closes the page.

Quick Answer: In Philadelphia's parks, a pedal-assist e-bike that tops out at 20 mph may ride trails marked for bicycles, at 7 mph or less. An e-bike faster than 20 mph on the motor is barred from every park path and trail. Throttle bikes are read two ways. Wissahickon and Pennypack dirt trails need a permit.

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Boathouse Row on the Schuylkill, beside the Kelly Drive path this map shows open to a Class 1 e-bike at 7 mph, in a scene generated with Playcut from a photograph of the boathouses by Carol M. Highsmith.

Blue is the park system: the Wissahickon in the northwest, Fairmount Park along the Schuylkill, Pennypack and the creek valleys in the northeast. Green runs down the Delaware and up the Frankford Creek greenway.

Philadelphia answers your question in its park regulations, because most of the trails you will ride here run through its parks. The Department of Parks and Recreation defines an "E-Bicycle" as "a bicycle with working pedals that must be operated to engage the electric power and has a maximum speed of 20 miles per hour" (Regulations § 308(A)). In everything but name, it is a Class 1 bike.

An e-bike that goes faster on its motor is a different machine under the same section: "a bicycle powered wholly or in part by electric power that has a maximum speed with motor power of greater than 20 miles per hour" is a Motorized Bicycle (§ 308(A)). And "It is prohibited to ride a Motorized Bicycle on any Park sidewalk, recreation path, or trail" (§ 308(H)).

This map shows which of Philadelphia's 216.7 mapped miles of trail and off-street path your e-bike may ride, by class, on the rules read November 2, 2026, and who says so. It ties 1,576 pieces of trail from public trail files, such as the Department's trail file, counted once, to the bodies whose rules govern each one; the trail register holds all of it as a download.

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E-bike trails by state compares the states, e-bike trails near me finds the atlas for yours, and the same method maps Phoenix's trails, Houston's, Chicago's, Los Angeles's and New York City's bike paths.

In this guide

• How to read the map
• Who decides on each trail in Philadelphia
• The park rule: what counts as an E-Bicycle
• The throttle question, published both ways
• Wissahickon Valley Park and Forbidden Drive
• The Schuylkill River Trail, Kelly Drive and MLK Drive
• Pennypack Park and the northeast creeks
• The Delaware River Trail and the City's greenways
• Federal and state land: Independence, Heinz and Benjamin Rush
• Bridges, the airport trail and private paths
• What Pennsylvania's law says
• Philadelphia bike trails riders ask about
• Philadelphia trails, area by area
• Where riders get caught out
• Streets, bike lanes and sidewalks
• Choosing an e-bike for Philadelphia's trails
• The bottom line
• Frequently asked questions
• How we verified this map
• Limitations
• Source register
• References

How to read the map

Each line on the map is a stretch of trail or off-street path, colored by what each class of e-bike may do there, as the legend spells out. Blue is the park system's rule, green is the Vehicle Code's, amber is a rule that can be read two ways for every class, and gray means no rule that settles it could be read.

The colors follow the manager. On a blue line you ride a trail or path the Department of Parks and Recreation runs or holds; its regulations open it to an E-Bicycle where the trail is "designated for bicycle use" (§ 308(B)). The Department's own trail file marks which of its trails take bicycles, and 265 lines that the source files mark closed to bicycles are left off the map.

A green line sits in a street right of way, on a waterfront path or in Benjamin Rush State Park: the Vehicle Code treats your e-bike as a pedalcycle there, the Waterfront Corporation names e-bikes as trail users, and the state agency allows them (DCNR policy). A gray line belongs to someone whose rule could not be read, or is a park line the Department's trail file does not carry; the limitations name each one.

Who decides on each trail in Philadelphia

The Department of Parks and Recreation decides on 185.5 of the 216.7 miles: the Wissahickon, Fairmount Park, Pennypack, the creek valleys and the Schuylkill River Trail through the city. The rest belongs to the Streets Department, PennDOT and the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation (10.8 mi together), DCNR, the Fish and Wildlife Service, a bridge authority and a handful of others.

Pennsylvania gives local governments their say over streets. Section 6109 of the Vehicle Code presumes reasonable "Regulating the operation of pedalcycles and requiring their registration and inspection" on "streets or highways within their physical boundaries" (75 Pa.C.S. § 6109(a)(8)), and § 6101 bars a local ordinance "on a matter covered by the provisions of this title unless expressly authorized" (§ 6101(a)).

Park trails are a different kind of ground. "The following regulations are adopted by the Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation pursuant to the Act of April 14, 1868, P.L. 1803, as amended, Philadelphia Home Rule Charter Section 8-407, and Philadelphia Code Sections 15-201, 15-202, 15-203, and 15-204" (Regulations).

That is how the park system sets a 7 mph trail limit and bars some e-bikes outright, and why this map applies the Department's rules on its land and the Vehicle Code where you ride a path in a public right of way.

The park rule: what counts as an E-Bicycle

On the Department's land, if your bike's pedals must turn before the motor helps and its motor stops at 20 mph, it is an E-Bicycle and rides wherever bicycles are allowed. If it goes faster than 20 mph on the motor, it is a Motorized Bicycle and is barred from every park sidewalk, path and trail. The rule covers 185.5 miles of this map.

The Department writes three definitions into one section. A "Bicycle" means "any vehicle propelled in whole or in part by human power" (§ 308(A)). An "E-Bicycle" is the pedal-engaged, 20 mph bike quoted above. A "Motorized Bicycle" is the faster electric bike, or one with a gas engine.

Your E-Bicycle's ground is narrower than a park's whole footprint. "It is prohibited to ride a Bicycle or E-Bicycle on, in or at any Park and Recreation Facility except on sidewalks, recreation paths, and trails designated for bicycle use" (§ 308(B)). The Department's trail file carries that designation line by line.

Speed is the other half, and it is lower than you may expect. "It is prohibited to ride a Bicycle or E-Bicycle on a recreation path or trail at a speed exceeding seven miles per hour" (§ 308(G)), and every trail user is held to "a maximum speed limit of seven miles" per hour on Department trails (§ 310(B)). The fine is not small: "a minimum fine of $300 per day for each violation" (§ 501(B)).

The trap: if your Class 3 bike is limited to 20 mph by a setting, it is still sold as a 28 mph machine. The regulation turns on "a maximum speed with motor power of greater than 20 miles per hour" (§ 308(A)), so read your bike's own specification before you treat a speed setting as a reclassification.

The throttle question, published both ways

If your throttle bike tops out at 20 mph, it falls between the Department's definitions, and none of the Department's texts read for this map says which one governs it. On 177.9 miles of park trail this map colors a Class 2 bike as read two ways rather than guess.

Read strictly, it is not an E-Bicycle, because the throttle engages the power without the pedals. It is not a Motorized Bicycle either, because it does not exceed 20 mph on the motor. That leaves § 108, whose "Motor Vehicle" includes "mopeds, and electric personal transportation devices" (§ 108(A)), a term the regulations never define.

Section 108 then says "It is prohibited to use a Motor Vehicle on any Park trail or recreation path", with one exception: "self-propelled mobility devices" may be operated on the Parkway sidewalks and the Kelly Drive and MLK Drive paths (§ 108(B)).

The trail-rules page bars "any motor vehicles, including but not limited to snowmobiles, motorcycles, motorbikes, motor-powered dirt bikes, and motor-powered All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs)" from all trails (trail regulations).

Read broadly, § 308's "Bicycle" takes "any vehicle propelled in whole or in part by human power" and "does not include any vehicle propelled solely by motorized power" (§ 308(A)). A throttle bike you pedal is propelled in part by human power, so it is not a vehicle propelled solely by its motor, and § 108 itself says the use of "Bicycles, E-Bicycles, and Motorized Bicycles" in the parks "is governed by Section 308" (§ 108(H)).

What to do with it: on a park trail, ride your throttle bike as a pedal-assist bike, pedaling, with the throttle unused, at 7 mph or less. If a park trail is part of your daily ride, ask the Department of Parks and Recreation before you rely on it. On a city street the question does not arise, because Pennsylvania's own definition says nothing about how the power is summoned.

Wissahickon Valley Park and Forbidden Drive

Wissahickon Valley Park holds 55.3 of the map's miles, 54.9 of them open to a Class 1 e-bike, but its upper trails need a trail permit and Forbidden Drive has rules of its own. The Department's and the Friends of the Wissahickon's files mark which Wissahickon trails take bicycles; the trails they mark closed to bicycles are left off this map.

Forbidden Drive runs down the middle of the park; most of the lines around it are the soft-surface trails where the permit applies.

The permit is the City's Natural Surface Trail Permit, and its page states the rule two ways. The opening reads "For these areas, you need a permit if you use a: Bicycle", for the upper Wissahickon trails and Pennypack's soft trails (permit page). The "Who" section narrows it: "People who use mountain bikes or ride horses and are over age 16 must have a permit" there (permit page).

Neither passage mentions e-bikes. The regulations' "Bicycle" takes any vehicle propelled "in whole or in part by human power" (§ 308(A)), so plan on the permit if you ride an e-bike on those trails. This map flags 43.7 miles of the Department's soft-surface Wissahickon trail.

"Registration for Philadelphia residents is free" and "There is a $35 fee for non-residents of Philadelphia" (permit page); "Annual permits are valid from April through March" (permit page).

The page also warns that riders "without a valid trail permit or who violate the trail rules and regulations may be subject to a $25 fine" (permit page). The regulations set "a minimum fine of $300 per day for each violation" of any of their provisions (§ 501(B)); the two figures differ, so plan on the higher one.

Forbidden Drive gives you 5.3 miles in the Department's file, which codes it as a hard-surface major trail open to bicycles. The regulations call it "Upper Wissahickon (Forbidden) Drive" and name it among the places a Motorized Bicycle may not go (§ 308(H)).

The permit page says "the upper trails", the trail-rules page "the Upper Wissahickon", and the trail-rules page lists "Upper Wissahickon trails and Forbidden Drive" as two places (trail regulations); neither page says whether the permit reaches the Drive. Carry it if you ride both.

One corner is closed to you on a bicycle of any kind. "No bicycles may be used in the Andorra Natural Area, except on Bell's Mill Trail, the driveway to the Tree House, and the bypass, which connects upper Northwestern Avenue with Forbidden Drive" (trail regulations).

The hours come as two rules on one page: "All trails are open from dawn to dusk, seven days a week", and "No person may ride a bicycle or horse in the parks or on the trails between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m." (trail regulations). Ride the trails between dawn and dusk; the 10 p.m. ban also covers you anywhere else in the parks.

The Schuylkill River Trail, Kelly Drive and MLK Drive

The Schuylkill River Trail through Philadelphia is the Department's: Schuylkill Banks, the Kelly Drive paths and the MLK Drive path are blue on this map, open to a Class 1 e-bike at 7 mph and closed to a Class 3. The regulations name all three in the sentence that bars Motorized Bicycles (§ 308(H)).

Kelly Drive's path runs up the Schuylkill's east bank and MLK Drive's up the west bank; Schuylkill Banks carries the trail south through Center City.

The roadways beside the paths carry their own bicycle rules. It is prohibited to ride a Bicycle or E-Bicycle "on the roadway of Lincoln Drive between Wissahickon Avenue and Kelly Drive at any time" (§ 308(D)(1)).

The same goes "on the roadway of Kelly Drive Monday through Friday between the hours of 7:00 A.M. and 10:00 A.M., and the hours of 4:00 P.M. and 6:30 P.M." (§ 308(D)(2)). At rush hour, the Kelly Drive path at 7 mph is your legal way along the east bank.

Beyond the city line, the trail you ride changes hands. The trail rules posted at schuylkillriver.org say in their heading that they apply "TO BERKS AND SCHUYLKILL COUNTIES", where "An e-bike is permitted on the trail if it has a motor less than 750 Watts and does not have the capacity to be self-propelled" and "E-bikes may not exceed the 15 MPH speed limit" (trail rules).

Those rules do not govern the Philadelphia stretch, where the Department's 7 mph applies. Schuylkill Banks' own bicycling page states no separate e-bike rule.

Pennypack Park and the northeast creeks

Pennypack Park's paved trail is open to a Class 1 e-bike without a permit; its soft trails need the Natural Surface Trail Permit. Cobbs Creek in the southwest, Tacony Creek and the Poquessing in the north and northeast follow the same Department rules.

This map flags 24.9 miles of the Department's soft-surface Pennypack trail under the permit. On the paved Pennypack Trail, which the Department's trail file codes as hard surface, you need no permit, and you are held to the same 7 mph as on every Department trail.

On the creek valleys' paved paths, you meet the throttle question at every trailhead if you ride a Class 2. Pedal, leave the throttle alone, and keep to 7 mph on the trail; the street grid next to each park is where a throttle is plainly at home.

The Delaware River Trail and the City's greenways

The Delaware River Trail and the City's sidepaths and greenways are mostly green on this map: open to Class 1 and Class 2 under the Vehicle Code, with Class 3 read two ways. On a path in a public right of way, the Vehicle Code governs.

The Waterfront Corporation's trail rules name e-bikes as trail users, "Cyclists, e-scooters, and e-bikes are urged to travel at responsible speeds, especially in areas of high pedestrian activity", and bar "Vehicles with internal combustion engines: scooters, mopeds, dirtbikes, cars, and trucks" (trail safety tips).

Where the trail splits in two, ride the asphalt: "The asphalt path is for cyclists and the cement sidewalk is for walkers and joggers" (trail safety tips).

"To date, the Delaware River Trail runs 3.3 miles from Pier 70 in South Philadelphia to Penn Treaty Park in Fishtown", in the Waterfront Corporation's words (Delaware River Trail). The files name 5.4 miles of line as the Delaware River Trail, 3.6 of them green; two stretches the City's file assigns to the Department follow its rules, two short pieces cross private land, and one stretch in the River Wards has no manager on record.

The Streets Department holds most of the 58th Street Greenway, the first phase of the Frankford Creek Greenway and the Aramingo Avenue sidepath; PennDOT holds the greenway's second phase, in the City's trail file. The Henry Avenue sidepath, in the Lower Northwest, is mostly the Department's, and blue.

On these paths the Vehicle Code governs. A "Pedalcycle" is "A vehicle propelled solely by human-powered pedals or a pedalcycle with electric assist" (75 Pa.C.S. § 102), and a rider "upon a sidewalk or pedalcycle path used by pedestrians shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian and shall give an audible signal before overtaking and passing a pedestrian" (§ 3508(a)).

Where a waterfront path sits inside a Department property, the park's rules apply to you instead, and the map colors it blue. This map does not quote the Philadelphia Code, so on a City path, follow any posted sign over this map.

Federal and state land: Independence, Heinz and Benjamin Rush

Independence National Historical Park bars bicycles and e-bikes from its walks and roads, the John Heinz refuge allows bicycles on its service roads and none of its pages read mentions e-bikes, and Benjamin Rush State Park follows DCNR's statewide e-bike policy. Each federal and state manager writes its own rule, so check which one you are on.

Independence's 2026 compendium is plain: "Bicycles (including electric bicycles, or 'e-bikes') are prohibited from being ridden on all park sidewalks, benches, stairs, walks and park roads/alleys, and inside park buildings except for emergency response personnel" (compendium).

You will not find the park's walkways on this map: they are among the lines left off as closed to bicycles. Across the Park Service, "The use of an electric bicycle is prohibited in locations not designated by the Superintendent" (36 CFR 4.30(i)(2)).

At John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum, "Bicycles are allowed on designated service roads" (refuge laws page). E-bikes depend on a separate decision: a rider gets a bicycle's rights only "If the refuge manager determines that electric bicycle (also known as e-bike) use is a compatible use on roads or trails" (50 CFR 27.31(m)).

None of the 23 refuge pages read for this map, its laws, rules and trail pages among them, mentions e-bikes; the laws page sends riders to "the official refuge trail map for designated bike routes" (refuge laws page). So its 4.9 miles are gray on this map; ask at the visitor center before you ride an e-bike there.

Benjamin Rush State Park, in the far northeast, is DCNR's. "The Department generally permits e-bikes on DCNR managed trails already open to human-powered bike usage" (DCNR policy), but "Using the electric motor exclusively to move an e-bike without pedaling is prohibited on non-motorized" trails (policy), and riders "shall never use the electric assistance to exceed 20 miles per hour" (policy).

That last clause is why a Class 3 reads two ways in a state park. The policy admits e-bikes that "do not exceed 20 mph using the motor functionality" (policy) and bars "Pedalcycles or vehicles that exceed the weight, wattage, or other specifications identified in this policy" (policy), while its riding rule only caps the assistance. Pedal when you ride a state park trail, and keep your assistance at or below 20 mph.

Bridges, the airport trail and private paths

The Ben Franklin Bridge walkway bars "Motorized vehicles" and names no e-bike, so it reads two ways for every class; the Northeast Airport Trail, the Navy Yard path, the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge walkway and a few private paths are gray, because their owners' rules were not read.

The Delaware River Port Authority calls the walkway "a picturesque route for walkers, runners and cyclists between Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey", and asks that "Cyclists yield to pedestrians and use audible warnings" (walkway page). The same page lists what is "Strictly Prohibited", and "Motorized vehicles" is on it (walkway page).

Whether an e-bike counts as a motorized vehicle is the Authority's call, and its page names no e-bike. Walk the bike across if you are unsure, and check the Authority's page before you ride.

The Northeast Airport Trail (4.1 mi) sits on the Division of Aviation's land, the Navy Yard path (1.6 mi) on PIDC's, and the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge walkway (0.5 mi) belongs to the Burlington County Bridge Commission, in the owner fields of DVRPC's trail file.

Four short stretches cross private land, 1.2 mi in all: two pieces of the Delaware River Trail, the Penrose Sidepath and the Pencoyd Bridge. Their owners' rules are not on this map, so follow the posted signs or ask the owner before you ride.

What Pennsylvania's law says

Pennsylvania's Vehicle Code has no Class 1, 2 or 3 in its definitions; it has one e-bike term, a "pedalcycle with electric assist", and a bike inside it is a pedalcycle under the Vehicle Code. The park and agency rules above add their own limits wherever you ride on their land.

The definition reads: "A vehicle weighing not more than 100 pounds with two or three wheels more than 11 inches in diameter, manufactured or assembled with an electric motor system rated at not more than 750 watts and equipped with operable pedals and capable of a speed not more than 20 miles per hour on a level surface when powered by the motor source only" (75 Pa.C.S. § 102).

That last line is where a Class 3 bike reads two ways. A bike that assists to 28 mph while you pedal, with no throttle, is never "powered by the motor source only" (§ 102), so the cap can be read to exclude it or not to reach it at all. On the Department's trails the question does not matter, because § 308(H) bars it there either way.

The state also sets an age. "No person under 16 years of age shall operate a pedalcycle with electric assist" (75 Pa.C.S. § 3514), and DCNR's e-bike FAQ reads that as a rule for riding "on state and local highways" (DCNR FAQ). PennDOT's micromobility sheet puts it the same way: "Minimum age to operate is 16" (PennDOT Publication 944).

For any bicycle, "A person under 12 years of age shall not operate a pedalcycle or ride as a passenger on a pedalcycle unless the person is wearing a pedalcycle helmet" (§ 3510(a)). The rule also covers a child riding "in a restraining seat attached to a pedalcycle" or "in a trailer towed by a pedalcycle" (§ 3510(a)), so it reaches your child on a cargo e-bike.

Philadelphia bike trails riders ask about

These questions come from what Philadelphia riders type into search, each answered from the map. Each answer quotes or links the rule that settles it, so you can check it at its source before you ride.

Is the Pennypack Trail paved?

The main Pennypack Trail is: the Department's trail file codes it as a hard surface, and it needs no permit. The park's soft trails are a separate network that needs the Natural Surface Trail Permit (permit page).

What time does the Pennypack Trail open?

At dawn. The Department's trail rules say "All trails are open from dawn to dusk, seven days a week" (trail regulations), and no bicycle may be ridden in the parks or on the trails between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.

Can you ride a bike on Kelly Drive?

On the Kelly Drive path, yes, at 7 mph. On the Kelly Drive roadway, not on weekdays between 7:00 and 10:00 A.M. or 4:00 and 6:30 P.M. (§ 308(D)(2)); outside those hours § 308(D)(2) does not bar a bicycle or E-Bicycle from the roadway.

How long is the Delaware River Trail?

The Delaware River Waterfront Corporation gives it as 3.3 miles, from Pier 70 in South Philadelphia to Penn Treaty Park in Fishtown (Delaware River Trail). It is open to a Class 1 or Class 2 e-bike under the Vehicle Code; yield to people on foot and signal before you pass (§ 3508(a)).

Philadelphia trails, area by area

The City Planning Commission divides Philadelphia into 18 planning districts; this map groups them into six areas and lists the named trails in each, with their miles and their color. A trail that crosses districts appears in each one it crosses, so the lists add up to each district's miles.

Every named trail with 2 miles or more on the map, each stretch counted once under the name its file gives it:

Northwest

The Northwest's 62.8 miles are almost all the Department's: the Wissahickon, the Manayunk Canal Towpath and the Schuylkill River Trail.

Upper Northwest: 27.4 miles. Class 1 open on 26.8; Class 2 read two ways on 26.8; 0.6 gray or amber.

• Orange Trail 5.5 mi (blue)
• White Trail 4.4 mi (blue)
• Cresheim 1.9 mi (blue)
• Lavender Trail 1.4 mi (blue)
• Lincoln Drive Trail 0.4 mi (blue)
• Clifford Park Trail 0.4 mi (blue)
• Forbidden Drive 0.3 mi (blue)
• Also: 0.4 mi of shorter named stretches and 12.6 mi of unnamed trail and path

Lower Northwest: 35.4 miles. Class 1 open on 34.2; Class 2 open on 0.2 and read two ways on 34.0; 1.2 gray or amber.

• Yellow Trail 7.9 mi (blue)
• Forbidden Drive 5.0 mi (blue)
• Manayunk Canal Towpath 2.2 mi (blue)
• Lincoln Drive Trail 1.2 mi (blue)
• Schuylkill River Trail 1.1 mi (blue)
• Kelly Drive Trail 1.0 mi (blue)
• Henry Avenue Sidepath 0.9 mi (mostly blue)
• Roxborough Reservoir Loop 0.7 mi (blue)
• Schuylkill Center SRT Connector 0.5 mi (gray)
• Manayunk Bridge Trail 0.4 mi (blue)
• Ivy Ridge Trail 0.3 mi (gray)
• Also: 0.7 mi of shorter named stretches and 13.5 mi of unnamed trail and path

Northeast

The Northeast's 60.2 miles are Pennypack, the Poquessing, the riverfront and, in green at the top, Benjamin Rush State Park; the gray line above Pennypack is the Northeast Airport Trail.

Central Northeast: 35.4 miles. Class 1 open on 31.3; Class 2 read two ways on 31.3; 4.1 gray or amber.

• Pennypack Trail 7.9 mi (blue)
• Pennypack Creek Trail 2.2 mi (gray)
• Triplets 0.8 mi (gray)
• Wolf Run 0.5 mi (gray)
• Fox Chase Lorimer Trail 0.4 mi (blue)
• Pennypack Park South 0.3 mi (gray)
• Also: 0.8 mi of shorter named stretches and 22.4 mi of unnamed trail and path

Lower Far Northeast: 9.6 miles. Class 1 open on 5.3; Class 2 open on 0.1 and read two ways on 5.2; 4.3 gray or amber.

• Northeast Airport Trail 4.1 mi (gray)
• Poquessing Creek Trail 1.6 mi (blue)
• Poquessing 3 Trail 1.5 mi (blue)
• Wooden Bridge Trail 1.5 mi (blue)
• Also: 0.4 mi of shorter named stretches and 0.5 mi of unnamed trail and path

Upper Far Northeast: 3.4 miles. Class 1 open on 3.4; Class 2 open on 3.4.

• Also: 0.1 mi of shorter named stretches and 3.3 mi of unnamed trail and path

Lower Northeast: 0.4 miles. Class 1 open on 0.4; Class 2 open on 0.1 and read two ways on 0.3.

• Also: 0.4 mi of shorter named stretches

North Delaware: 11.3 miles. Class 1 open on 10.6; Class 2 open on 0.1 and read two ways on 10.5; 0.7 gray or amber.

• Pennypack Trail 2.7 mi (blue)
• Baxter Trail 2.1 mi (blue)
• Kensington and Tacony Trail 2.0 mi (blue)
• Pleasant Hill Trail 0.9 mi (blue)
• Fluehr Park Trail 0.9 mi (blue)
• Tacony-Palmyra Bridge 0.5 mi (gray)
• Poquessing Creek: Lower 0.4 mi (blue)
• Walbach St Spur 0.4 mi (blue)
• Also: 0.4 mi of shorter named stretches and 1.1 mi of unnamed trail and path

North

North Philadelphia's 12.2 miles run along Tacony Creek and through the parks of the Lower North.

North: 2.5 miles. Class 1 open on 2.4; Class 2 read two ways on 2.4; 0.1 gray or amber.

• Tacony Creek Trail 1.6 mi (blue)
• Kelly Drive Trail 0.5 mi (blue)
• Also: 0.1 mi of shorter named stretches and 0.3 mi of unnamed trail and path

Upper North: 1.9 miles. Class 1 open on 1.9; Class 2 read two ways on 1.9.

• Tacony Creek Trail 1.7 mi (blue)
• Also: 0.1 mi of unnamed trail and path

Lower North: 7.8 miles. Class 1 open on 7.5; Class 2 read two ways on 7.5; 0.3 gray or amber.

• Boxers Trail 3.1 mi (blue)
• Kelly Drive Trail 2.5 mi (blue)
• East Fairmount Greenway 1.0 mi (blue)
• Also: 0.6 mi of shorter named stretches and 0.6 mi of unnamed trail and path

West

West Park holds the Trolley Trail, the MLK Drive path and the Belmont Cross Country Trail; Cobbs Creek runs along the city line. 44.7 miles in all.

West Park: 35.5 miles. Class 1 open on 33.5; Class 2 open on 0.4 and read two ways on 33.1; 2.0 gray or amber.

• Trolley Trail 4.4 mi (blue)
• MLK Trail 4.0 mi (blue)
• Centennial 5K Loop 3.2 mi (blue)
• Belmont Cross Country Trail 2.5 mi (blue)
• Chamounix Sidepath 1.2 mi (blue)
• Crossbow Trail 1.2 mi (mostly blue)
• West Bank Greenway 1.0 mi (mostly blue)
• Belmont Ave Sidepath 0.5 mi (blue)
• Cobbs Creek Trail 0.3 mi (mostly gray)
• Lansdowne Sidepath 0.3 mi (blue)
• Roberts Hollow Connector 0.3 mi (blue)
• Also: 1.9 mi of shorter named stretches and 14.8 mi of unnamed trail and path

West: 3.7 miles. Class 1 open on 3.7; Class 2 read two ways on 3.7.

• Cobbs Creek Trail 1.5 mi (blue)
• Also: 2.1 mi of unnamed trail and path

University Southwest: 5.5 miles. Class 1 open on 5.2; Class 2 open on 0.9 and read two ways on 4.2; 0.3 gray or amber.

• Cobbs Creek Trail 1.9 mi (blue)
• Bartrams Mile 1.2 mi (blue)
• 58th Street Greenway 1.0 mi (mostly green)
• Grays Ferry Bridge Path 0.3 mi (gray)
• Also: 0.6 mi of shorter named stretches and 0.6 mi of unnamed trail and path

Center City and the river wards

Center City's 22.1 miles run along both rivers: Schuylkill Banks in blue, the Delaware River Trail mostly in green, the bridge walkway in amber.

Central: 13.1 miles. Class 1 open on 11.3; Class 2 open on 3.8 and read two ways on 8.3; 1.8 gray or amber.

• Delaware River Trail 3.2 mi (mostly green)
• Schuylkill Banks 2.0 mi (blue)
• Kelly Drive Trail 1.2 mi (blue)
• Ben Franklin Bridge Walkway 0.7 mi (amber)
• Penn's Landing 0.7 mi (green)
• MLK Trail 0.4 mi (blue)
• Also: 1.3 mi of shorter named stretches and 3.5 mi of unnamed trail and path

River Wards: 7.3 miles. Class 1 open on 6.6; Class 2 open on 3.9 and read two ways on 2.7; 0.7 gray or amber.

• Frankford Creek Greenway 2.1 mi (green)
• Delaware River Trail 1.8 mi (mostly green)
• Port Richmond Trail 1.6 mi (blue)
• Robert A Borski Park Trail 0.5 mi (blue)
• Orthodox Sidepath 0.3 mi (green)
• Aramingo Ave Sidepath 0.3 mi (green)
• Also: 0.6 mi of shorter named stretches and 0.1 mi of unnamed trail and path

South: 1.8 miles. Class 1 open on 1.5; Class 2 open on 0.1 and read two ways on 1.3; 0.3 gray or amber.

• Grays Ferry Crescent 0.6 mi (blue)
• Delaware River Trail 0.3 mi (mostly gray)
• Schuylkill Banks 0.3 mi (blue)
• Also: 0.6 mi of unnamed trail and path

South and Southwest

The South and Southwest's 14.7 miles include FDR Park's paths in blue, the Navy Yard Path and the Heinz refuge's Wetland Loop Trail in gray, and Cobbs Creek Trail along the city line.

Lower South: 6.4 miles. Class 1 open on 4.3; Class 2 open on 0.6 and read two ways on 3.7; 2.0 gray or amber.

• Navy Yard Path 1.6 mi (gray)
• Penrose Sidepath 0.6 mi (mostly gray)
• South Broad Sidepath 0.5 mi (blue)
• Hartranft Sidepath 0.5 mi (green)
• Also: 3.2 mi of unnamed trail and path

Lower Southwest: 8.4 miles. Class 1 open on 2.3; Class 2 open on 0.5 and read two ways on 1.9; 6.0 gray or amber.

• Wetland Loop Trail 3.6 mi (gray)
• Cobbs Creek Trail 1.7 mi (blue)
• Eastwick Park Trail 0.6 mi (gray)
• Heinz Wildlife Refuge Trail 0.5 mi (gray)
• 58th Street Greenway 0.5 mi (green)
• Island Avenue 0.4 mi (gray)
• Frog Pond Trail 0.3 mi (gray)
• Eastwick Trail 0.3 mi (gray)
• Also: 0.4 mi of shorter named stretches

Where riders get caught out

Each of these mistakes breaks a rule quoted on this page, and each is easy to avoid. Speed, the bike's class and the permit come first.

• Riding at bike-lane speed on a park trail. The limit is 7 mph on every Department trail and recreation path (§ 310(B)), and the regulations' fine starts at $300 a day (§ 501(B)).
• Taking a 28 mph bike onto a park path. A Motorized Bicycle is barred from every park sidewalk, path and trail (§ 308(H)), whatever speed you happen to be riding.
• Riding the Wissahickon's upper trails without the permit. The permit page asks it of anyone riding a bicycle there and on Pennypack's soft trails, and names mountain-bike riders over 16 (permit page).
• Kelly Drive at rush hour. The roadway is closed to bicycles on weekdays from 7:00 to 10:00 A.M. and 4:00 to 6:30 P.M. (§ 308(D)(2)).
• Riding a trail after dusk. Trails are open from dawn to dusk, and bicycles are barred from the parks and trails between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. (trail regulations).
• Passing walkers without room. "Bicyclists should give right-of-way and move for people on foot" (trail regulations), and on a shared path Pennsylvania requires "an audible signal before overtaking and passing a pedestrian" (§ 3508(a)).
• Assuming a refuge works like a park. At Heinz, e-bikes need the refuge manager's determination (50 CFR 27.31(m)), and none of the refuge's pages read mentions one.

Your Philadelphia trail checklist

1. Check your bike's top speed with the motor helping: 20 mph or less is the park system's E-Bicycle line, and more makes it a Motorized Bicycle.
2. On a park trail, pedal: a throttle bike ridden on its throttle is the case the strict reading bars.
3. Hold 7 mph on every park trail and recreation path.
4. Riding the Wissahickon's upper trails or Pennypack's soft trails? Get the Natural Surface Trail Permit; it is free for city residents.
5. Ride the trails between dawn and dusk; bicycles are barred from the parks from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.
6. On a shared path, yield to people on foot and signal before passing.
7. Under 16? Pennsylvania bars you from operating an e-bike; under 12, wear a helmet on any bicycle, riding or as a passenger.

Streets, bike lanes and sidewalks

Bike lanes and sharrows are not trails, and this map leaves them off: the 335.4 miles of painted lanes, sharrows and separated lanes in the Streets Department's bike network file are a street rider's world, governed by the Vehicle Code. A street is where you can ride a throttle or a 28 mph bike without a park rule in the way, as long as your bike is inside the state's definition.

Sidewalks carry one statewide rule worth knowing. "A person shall not ride a pedalcycle upon a sidewalk in a business district unless permitted by official traffic-control devices" (§ 3508(b)).

The Vehicle Code's business district is ground where "within any 600 feet along the highway there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes" that "occupy at least 300 feet of frontage on one side or 300 feet collectively on both sides of the highway" (§ 102). On a block lined with shops and offices, keep your bike off the sidewalk.

Choosing an e-bike for Philadelphia's trails

Buy a pedal-assist e-bike whose motor stops helping at 20 mph and whose motor is rated at 750 watts or less: it may ride 192.1 of this map's miles and is a pedalcycle on the city's streets. A throttle is useful to you on the street; on park trails, plan to pedal.

For the Wissahickon's dirt trails, browse our mountain e-bikes and pick one whose motor stops helping at 20 mph. For the Delaware River Trail and the commute, see our commuter e-bikes.

Pennsylvania's definition covers three wheels as long as the trike stays within its 100-pound and 750-watt limits, so our electric trikes are worth a look, and if a child rides along, our cargo e-bikes carry them, with a helmet for anyone under 12.

Our Philadelphia guide measures the city's hills, neighborhoods and transit rules and picks bikes for them, and the e-bike buying guide explains classes, motors and batteries. The rest of our shelf is in our full e-bike range.

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The bottom line

Ride Philadelphia's parks on a pedal-assist e-bike that stops helping at 20 mph, at 7 mph, on trails marked for bicycles: that is 192.1 of 216.7 mapped miles. Leave a 28 mph bike on the street, pedal a throttle bike on park trails, and carry the permit on the Wissahickon's and Pennypack's dirt.

You can download the register free. If a sign you meet disagrees with this page, follow the sign, and tell us about it at support@redtailebikes.com.

Frequently asked questions

Can you ride an e-bike on trails in Philadelphia?

Yes on most of them, if you ride a Class 1 bike. The Department of Parks and Recreation's regulations open its trails that are designated for bicycles to an E-Bicycle, one whose pedals must turn to engage the motor and whose top speed is 20 mph, at 7 mph or less. A bike faster than 20 mph on its motor is barred from every park path and trail (Regulations § 308).

Are e-bikes allowed on bike trails in Pennsylvania?

It depends on who runs the trail you are on. State parks and forests generally allow e-bikes on trails open to bicycles, and you must pedal on non-motorized trails (DCNR policy). City parks, federal land and private trails set their own rules; in Philadelphia, the park regulations admit a pedal-assist bike that stops helping at 20 mph (§ 308(A)).

Can you ride an e-bike on the Schuylkill River Trail?

Yes on a Class 1 bike at 7 mph or less. Through Philadelphia the trail is the Department of Parks and Recreation's, and its regulations bar a Motorized Bicycle, one faster than 20 mph on the motor, from Schuylkill Banks and the Kelly and MLK Drive paths (§ 308(H)). A throttle bike is read two ways there; ride it pedaling.

Are Class 3 e-bikes allowed on Philadelphia trails?

Not on the Department's trails. If your bike goes faster than 20 mph with motor power, it is a Motorized Bicycle under the park regulations, and you may not ride it on any park sidewalk, recreation path or trail (§ 308(H)). On City sidepaths and the Delaware River Trail, the state's definition reads it two ways.

What is the speed limit on Philadelphia park trails?

Seven miles per hour, for every bicycle and E-Bicycle on a recreation path or trail and for every trail user on the Department's trails (§ 308(G), § 310(B)). The regulations set a minimum fine of $300 per day for each violation (§ 501(B)).

Are e-bikes allowed in Pennsylvania state parks?

Yes, on trails already open to bicycles, under DCNR's policy, as long as your bike weighs no more than 100 pounds, has a motor of no more than 750 watts, does not exceed 20 mph using the motor and has working pedals. On non-motorized trails you must pedal; riding on the motor alone is prohibited there (DCNR policy).

Why are e-bikes not allowed on some trails?

Because each manager writes its own rule. In Philadelphia's parks the line is speed: a bike faster than 20 mph on its motor is barred from park paths and trails. Federal land adds a decision of its own: the Park Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service allow e-bikes only where a manager designates them or finds them compatible (36 CFR 4.30(i)(2), 50 CFR 27.31(m)).

How old do you have to be to ride an e-bike in Pennsylvania?

Sixteen. Pennsylvania's Vehicle Code says no person under 16 may operate a pedalcycle with electric assist (§ 3514), and DCNR reads that as a rule for state and local highways. Your child under 12 must wear a helmet on any bicycle, riding or as a passenger.

What are Pennsylvania's e-bike laws?

Pennsylvania calls an e-bike a "pedalcycle with electric assist": no more than 100 pounds, a motor rated at no more than 750 watts, operable pedals, and no more than 20 mph on the motor alone (§ 102). Inside it, your e-bike is a pedalcycle under the Vehicle Code; parks and agencies add their own trail rules. No one under 16 may operate one, riders and passengers under 12 wear a helmet, and you stay off business-district sidewalks.

Are e-bikes allowed in bike lanes in Philadelphia?

Yes, if your e-bike is inside Pennsylvania's definition. PennDOT's micromobility sheet lists a bicycle as "allowed to ride in bike lane" and applies the pedalcycle laws to pedalcycles with electric assist (PennDOT Publication 944). Bike lanes are streets, not trails, so this map leaves them off.

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

Not in a business district. Pennsylvania's Vehicle Code bars riding a pedalcycle on a sidewalk in a business district unless signs permit it (§ 3508(b)), and an e-bike inside the state's definition is a pedalcycle. Elsewhere, yield to pedestrians and signal before you pass.

How we verified this map

Every color on this map is a rule quoted from its own text, every line comes from a public trail file, counted once, and every quote was checked against the deposit saved when it was read. Here is how each piece was gathered.

• Lines. 1,576 pieces of trail and off-street path, 216.7 miles, from the Department of Parks and Recreation's trail file, the Friends of the Wissahickon's trail map and Cresheim trails, the City's Existing Trails and bike network, DVRPC's All Trails, the Fish and Wildlife Service's refuge trails, DCNR's state park trails, the National Park Service's public trails layer record and OpenStreetMap (Geofabrik's Pennsylvania extract of November 1, 2026). Each stretch of ground counts once, the managers' own files first, and every piece is cut into runs of a quarter mile or less before it is placed. Every mile figure is the register's sum rounded once, to a tenth of a mile, so a map legend's rows can add up to a tenth more or less than the total printed above them.
• Rules. 56 passages from the bodies that govern the ground, each quoted from the copy saved when it was read on November 2, 2026, 56 of them quoted on this page.
• What readers ask. 2,924 questions and search phrasings harvested from 4 kinds of source (search suggestions on two engines, the headings of the pages that answer them, Reddit posts read by hand, and an AI search panel); 696 are answered on this page and the rest are logged with the reason they were set aside.
• Sources. 33 sources are linked, each saved as it was read. The Philadelphia Code could not be read (its publisher answers a Cloudflare challenge to an identified research client), so City paths outside the parks are read by the Vehicle Code; see Limitations.
• Names. Each stretch counts once, under the name its source file gives it; a section or phase of a trail is listed under the trail, and a spelling is changed only where the manager's own file shows it.
• The data. Every trail is a row in the register (CSV) for each planning district it crosses, with its manager, the verdict for each class, the rule behind it and the names the files give it; the same rows are published as JSON.
• Cover. The cover scenes of Boathouse Row were generated with Nano Banana Pro on Playcut (playcut.ai) from a photograph by Carol M. Highsmith (Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain); their type was set in-house.
• Byline. Researched and written by Milad Ghobadibeygvand, BScN (Western University, 2014), for Redtail eBikes; corrections to support@redtailebikes.com.

Limitations

1. The Philadelphia Code was not read. Its publisher (American Legal Publishing) answers a Cloudflare challenge to our identified research client, and the City Council's legislative API requires a token. City paths outside the parks are read by the Vehicle Code; a City ordinance on e-bikes on those paths, if one exists, is not on this map. The Streets Department's and PennDOT's own pages on these paths were not read either.
2. The Heinz refuge's e-bike decision was not found. 50 CFR 27.31(m) lets e-bikes ride as bicycles only where the refuge manager has found them a compatible use. None of the 23 refuge pages read (its home, laws, rules and trail pages) mentions e-bikes, and the Service's document library answered our research client with an access-denied page, so a determination filed there could not be read. The Service's own trail file marks bicycle use on the refuge's mapped trails as unknown. Its 4.9 miles read gray.
3. Class 2 on park land is read two ways. The Department's regulations define an E-Bicycle by pedals that "must be operated to engage the electric power", which a throttle bike does not need; its broader "Bicycle" definition takes any vehicle propelled "in whole or in part by human power" but not one "propelled solely by motorized power". No Department text read for this map says which governs a throttle bike, and the "self-propelled mobility device" exception in § 108(B) turns on a Philadelphia Code definition that could not be read.
4. Class 3 under the Vehicle Code is read two ways. Section 102 caps speed "when powered by the motor source only"; for a bike that assists to 28 mph while you pedal and has no throttle, that cap can be read to exclude it or not to reach it.
5. Two penalty figures. The Department's regulations set "a minimum fine of $300 per day for each violation" (§ 501(B)); its trail-permit page says a rider without a permit or who breaks the trail rules "may be subject to a $25 fine". Both are printed; plan on the higher one.
6. Two permit wordings. The permit page asks a permit of anyone who uses a "Bicycle" on the upper Wissahickon trails and Pennypack's soft trails, and its "Who" section names mountain-bike riders over 16. Neither passage mentions e-bikes. The permit page says "the upper trails", the trail-rules page "the Upper Wissahickon", and the trail-rules page lists "Upper Wissahickon trails and Forbidden Drive" as two places; neither page says whether the permit reaches the Drive.
7. The age rule's reach. Section 3514 says "No person under 16 years of age shall operate a pedalcycle with electric assist"; DCNR's e-bike FAQ reads it as a rule for "state and local highways". Whether it reaches a park trail is not settled by any text read for this map.
8. Other owners not read. The Division of Aviation (the Northeast Airport Trail, 4.1 mi), PIDC (the Navy Yard, 1.6 mi), the Burlington County Bridge Commission (the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge, 0.5 mi) and four private owners (1.2 mi: two pieces of the Delaware River Trail, the Penrose Sidepath and the Pencoyd Bridge): their rules were not read, so those lines are gray. Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site's compendium page answered "Page In-Progress".
9. Lines no file assigns. 3.8 miles of lines, most of them OpenStreetMap paths, carry no manager in any file read, and two short pieces belong to bodies whose rules were not read (one the regional file assigns to DRCC, one to the City); all of them are gray.
10. The Ben Franklin Bridge walkway. The Delaware River Port Authority's page bars "Motorized vehicles" and names no e-bike; how it applies to an e-bike is the Authority's call.
11. Park lines the Department's file does not carry. 7.6 miles of lines from other files sit on park land but are not in the Department's trail file, so whether they are designated for bicycles could not be read; they are gray for Class 1 and Class 2, and closed to a Class 3 like every park path.
12. Mapped miles are line miles. The register counts every mapped line once, connectors, loops and parallel paths included; it is not a measure of any single route's length. The Delaware River Waterfront Corporation gives its trail's route as 3.3 miles; the files name 5.4 miles of line as the Delaware River Trail.
13. Ownership labels. PAD-US lists Wissahickon Valley Park's polygon with the conservancy Natural Lands as local manager; its unit is the City's park, so the Department's rules are applied there.
14. Search volumes are not stated. The paid keyword instrument returned no data on the day of this build, so this page makes no claim about how many people search for any phrase.

When to re-check this map: at the Department's next regulations update (the version read is the August 2023 update); if the Fish and Wildlife Service publishes a Heinz e-bike determination; at DCNR's scheduled policy review (November 27, 2028); and whenever the Pennsylvania General Assembly amends 75 Pa.C.S. § 102, § 3510 or § 3514.

Source register

Every rule on this map comes from these primary sources, grouped by the body that issues them, each retrieved and read November 2, 2026, and each linked to the deepest page that states it:

T1 is the rule's own text at its publisher; T2 is the managing agency's own page summarising its rule. The trail lines come from the data publishers named in the method. News reports and other guides were read as leads only and are not cited.

References

These are the documents this page quotes, in the order of the source register, each with the section quoted, the date it was read and its address:

1. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. "75 Pa.C.S. § 102, Definitions". § 102 (business district), § 102 (pedalcycle with electric assist), § 102 (pedalcycle). Accessed November 2, 2026. https://www.palegis.us/statutes/consolidated/view-statute?txtType=HTM&ttl=75&div=0&chapter=1&section=102
2. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. "75 Pa.C.S. § 3508, Pedalcycles on sidewalks and pedalcycle paths". § 3508(a), § 3508(b). Accessed November 2, 2026. https://www.palegis.us/statutes/consolidated/view-statute?txtType=HTM&ttl=75&div=0&chapter=35&section=3508
3. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. "75 Pa.C.S. § 3510, Pedalcycle helmets for certain persons". § 3510(a). Accessed November 2, 2026. https://www.palegis.us/statutes/consolidated/view-statute?txtType=HTM&ttl=75&div=0&chapter=35&section=3510
4. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. "75 Pa.C.S. § 3514, Operation of pedalcycles with electric assist". § 3514. Accessed November 2, 2026. https://www.palegis.us/statutes/consolidated/view-statute?txtType=HTM&ttl=75&div=0&chapter=35&section=3514
5. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. "75 Pa.C.S. § 6101, Applicability and uniformity of title". § 6101(a). Accessed November 2, 2026. https://www.palegis.us/statutes/consolidated/view-statute?txtType=HTM&ttl=75&div=0&chapter=61&section=6101
6. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. "75 Pa.C.S. § 6109, Specific powers of department and local authorities". § 6109(a)(8). Accessed November 2, 2026. https://www.palegis.us/statutes/consolidated/view-statute?txtType=HTM&ttl=75&div=0&chapter=61&section=6109
7. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. "PA Micromobility Information Sheet (PennDOT Publication 944)". Accessed November 2, 2026. https://www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/penndot/documents/public/pubsforms/publications/pub%20944.pdf
8. Philadelphia Parks and Recreation. "Get a trail permit, City of Philadelphia". Accessed November 2, 2026. https://www.phila.gov/services/permits-violations-licenses/apply-for-a-permit/use-a-philadelphia-parks-recreation-space/get-a-trail-permit/
9. Philadelphia Parks and Recreation. "Regulations Governing Parks and Recreation Areas Under the Jurisdiction of the City of Philadelphia Department of Parks and Recreation (August 2023 update)". Legal authority, § 108(A), § 108(B), § 108(H), § 308(A), § 308(B), § 308(D)(1), § 308(D)(2), § 308(G), § 308(H), § 310(B), § 501(B)(1). Accessed November 2, 2026. https://www.phila.gov/media/20240228151106/Parks-and-Recreation-regulations-update-202308.pdf
10. Philadelphia Parks and Recreation. "Trail regulations, Philadelphia Parks & Recreation". Accessed November 2, 2026. https://www.phila.gov/departments/philadelphia-parks-recreation/about/trail-regulations/
11. Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. "E-bike Policy: Frequently Asked Questions (July 21, 2022)". Accessed November 2, 2026. https://elibrary.dcnr.pa.gov/PDFProvider.ashx?action=PDFStream&docID=4786464&chksum=&revision=0&docName=E-Bike_Policy_FAQs&nativeExt=pdf&PromptToSave=False&Size=166035&ViewerMode=2&overlay=0
12. Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. "Pedalcycle (Bike and E-Bike) Policy, No. 380100-2025-01". Accessed November 2, 2026. https://elibrary.dcnr.pa.gov/PDFProvider.ashx?action=PDFStream&docID=4781892&chksum=&revision=0&docName=E-Bike_Policy_Final&nativeExt=pdf&PromptToSave=False&Size=354191&ViewerMode=2&overlay=0
13. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "50 CFR 27.31, General provisions regarding vehicles". § 27.31(m). Accessed November 2, 2026. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-50/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-27/subpart-C/section-27.31
14. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum). "John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum: Laws & Regulations". Accessed November 2, 2026. https://www.fws.gov/refuge/john-heinz-tinicum/what-we-do/laws-regulations
15. National Park Service. "36 CFR 4.30, Bicycles". § 4.30(i)(2). Accessed November 2, 2026. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-36/chapter-I/part-4/section-4.30
16. National Park Service (Independence National Historical Park). "Superintendent's Compendium, Independence National Historical Park (2026)". Accessed November 2, 2026. https://www.nps.gov/inde/learn/management/compendium.htm
17. Delaware River Port Authority. "Ben Franklin Bridge Pedestrian Walkway". Accessed November 2, 2026. https://www.drpa.org/bridges/ben-franklin-walkway.asp
18. Delaware River Waterfront Corporation. "Delaware River Trail, Delaware River Waterfront Corporation". Accessed November 2, 2026. https://www.delawareriverwaterfront.com/where-to-go/delaware-river-trail
19. Delaware River Waterfront Corporation. "Trail Safety Tips, Delaware River Trail, Delaware River Waterfront Corporation". Accessed November 2, 2026. https://www.delawareriverwaterfront.com/where-to-go/delaware-river-trail/trail-safety-tips
20. Schuylkill River Trail rules (schuylkillriver.org). "Schuylkill River Trail Rules and Regulations (Berks and Schuylkill counties)". Accessed November 2, 2026. https://schuylkillriver.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/srt-rules-english.pdf