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Look up U.S. rail-trails: search, nearby trails, trail facts, trailheads and closures.
Remote server: your requests and data go to biketherail.org. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http biketherail https://biketherail.org/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
search_trails — Find U.S. rail-trails, canal towpaths and greenways by name, state, surface, kind and length. Returns each trail's page URL and slug (for geget_trail — One trail's facts (length, surface, states, managing organization, official website, year opened), trailheads with parking, restrooms and watrails_near — Trails within a radius of a latitude and longitude, nearest first, with the distance to the closest point of each trail. For a town or addrelist_closures — Current trail closures and detours posted by trail managers and agencies, optionally for one state, with the source notice. Trails not listeNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.